Your Student Experience

Your experience at Warwick is very important to us. We want it to be the best it can be. We will therefore actively seek feedback via the SSLC, feedback socials, online forms, surveys and focus groups throughout your studies.

In recent years, we have made changes to many of our systems and processes plus organised events and treats, all because of the feedback we have received. We do this to offer a better experience to our students. Here are just some of the things that have been implemented…

Assessment and Feedback

Assessing work and providing feedback is tantamount to your academic experience. We endeavour to provide prompt, high quality feedback to help you progress academically.

We provide generic feedback on examinations.
We offer advice and support in one-to-one meetings with your module tutors during advice and feedback hours; your personal tutor or the Director of Student Experience. Students can discuss their individual performance at any one of these one-to-one meetings.
Detailed written feedback is provided for module assignments via Tabula within 20 working days of the submission deadline date.
Feedback clearly highlights areas where students have achieved well and areas where work could be improved.
We provide clear details of the marking criteria used to assess your work.
We implemented the use of Tabula across the department to ensure a user friendly, convenient assessment submission process and quick delivery of feedback.

Academic Support

Providing valuable resources is an essential way to enhance your experience of the programme.

We offer a Legal Research and Writing Certificate course which teaches you library skills and good academic practice through a face to face workshop and online resources during the first term ahead of your first assessed piece of work, to prep you with the skills necessary to excel in the study of the law.
In collaboration with the SSLC and Law Society we hold our annual Module Fair to provide you with an invaluable opportunity to learn more about the modules on offer, and to talk to fellow students, lecturers and careers advisors, before making your final selections.
In addition to the wider University support available, we offer three levels of academic support for our students:
- Module tutors
- Personal tutors (led by our Director of Student Support and Well-being)
- Director of Student Experience (DSE)
Our Scholarship Development Programme offers study skills sessions on essay writing and exam techniques, wellbeing tips and advice, and careers guidance to second and third year students who wish to improve their performance.
We offer dedicated careers support and showcase both traditional and alternative career paths to our students. We are constantly reviewing the efficacy of this service so improvements can be made.

Student voice

Listening to your voice and opinions is essential for us to improve our courses.

We have a strong working relationship with the societies relevant to law, such as the Law Society, Bar Society and European Law Society, as well as our SSLC representatives.
We gather student feedback through regular surveys and module evaluation. We introduced mid-term module evaluations to allow for changes to be made during the year.
We hold regular student focus groups to gather feedback on different aspects of studying law at Warwick.
Our SSLC reps are invited to attend our undergraduate committee meetings to have input into relevant teaching and learning decisions.
Obiter Dicta is Warwick Law Society’s well-established student publication and welcomes submissions from students, providing a platform for you to share your voice.
All academic staff have regular advice and feedback hours during which students can approach them to discuss any individual issues or general concerns.

Learning Community

We understand the sense of belonging to a community is important.

Each year we offer a graduation celebration event for our final year students and there are lots of student organised activities and tours including the Law Ball.
We hold regular trips, department-wide public lectures, Christmas lectures, research seminars and events where staff and students can learn together and share experiences.
We organise regular informal social events for staff and students to interact including pizza evenings, Christmas parties, weekly staff-student coffee mornings, welcome activities and graduation celebrations.

Learning Resources

It is important that you have all the resources needed to successfully complete your degree available to you.

The Law School student hub provides a dedicated study space with flexible working areas so you can study in a way that suits you. It is open 24/7 and equipped with the latest technology plus tea/coffee facilities.
The social sciences building has also had a recent refurbishment to offer further study spaces for the faculty on the ground floor.
We have ensured that Library, Careers and Academic Writing services are readily accessible to all Law students by offering departmental consultation hours.

Learning Opportunities

It is important that you are aware of opportunities and have access to support to help you develop your wider skills.

We offer a Student Research Internship programme which enables students to pair with academics and apply for funding to research areas of interest. Many students each year undertake paid vacation research placements (often overseas) and present their findings at national and international conferences.
We held a joint Warwick Monash International Conference of UG Research and our students regularly attend the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) and British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR), which allows them to present their research to a domestic and international audience.
We offer financial and academic support to allow students to present their research at both the British Conference of UG Research and International Conference of UG Research.
Opportunities to write for our student run publication Obiter Dicta could help you develop your writing, research and journalistic skills.
We have now added Rio de Janeiro and Singapore to our study abroad options plus a summer school in Monash Malaysia for those who do not wish to study abroad for a full year as part of their degree.
We offer opportunities and financial support to take part in Moots (at internal, national and international level). Find out more.
We have an array of impressive programmes available within the School to help you develop your legal skills and make a difference in the world (e.g. the Death Penalty Project or Human Rights in Action programme). We also have strong links with the local Coventry Law Centre.
There are opportunities to write for our Lacuna magazine on current affairs and human rights.

Organisation and Management

We have implemented a more user-friendly and streamlined module registration procedure.
We now allow 2^nd and 3^rd year students to select their own seminars so they can work them around their other commitments.

Teaching on my Course

Our teaching examines law and legal institutions within a wider context. From the beginning our law in context approach was established as a different kind of legal education. At Warwick you learn what the law is, but also reflect on the reasons behind this.
Our academics are experts in their fields and passionate about their teaching, many of whom are qualified solicitors or barristers with experience of legal practice both in the UK and other countries. Our researchers were rated 7^th for their quality of research and the School was ranked 6^th for its research environment in the latest (2015) Research Excellence Framework (REF).
A number of our staff have been awarded National Teaching Fellowships (HEA), Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) and named as UK Law Teacher of the Year.
We are currently in the process of a curriculum review to ensure we offer the most relevant teaching for our student’s needs.

Sharing Your Feedback

If you have any feedback you would like to share with the Law Department, please contact either your SSLC rep or a member of the Law School team.