Fiona Cownie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1502375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Cownie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Cownie |
| SIGNATURE | COWNIE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Law Keele University Staffordshire ST5 5BG England |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1321-2646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Susan Bartie, Free Hands and Minds: Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars
In writing about three early Australian legal academics (Peter Brett, Alice Tay and Geoffrey Sawer) Susan Bartie had a number of objectives: to challenge “the persistent myth” that members of the first community of legal scholars in Australia are unimportant in terms of understanding Australian law and legal culture, and unremarkable compared to leading scholars in other Common Law jurisdictions (p. 1), to “counter fatalist accounts of the legal …
The Changing Position of Legal Academics in the United Kingdom: Professionalization or Proletarianization
This article analyses changes to United Kingdom (UK) university law schools during the period coinciding with Phil Thomas’ career as a law teacher – the latter part of the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty‐first – in part illustrating the analysis with other examples from Thomas’ career. We will focus specifically on the way in which what it means to be a legal academic has altered, with UK legal academics having been prof…
An Examined Life: Research into University Legal Education in the United Kingdom and the Journal of Law and Society
For academics, the nature of their work means that the Socratic demand to live an examined life has a particular force. In this article we look at the extent to which those working in university law schools in England and Wales have lived up to this suggestion, in the context of assessing the nature and quality of work on university legal education from the beginnings of university law schools. In doing so, we respond to the comments on such work…
Gratitude: Does it have a place within media-practice education
Gratitude may be an important yet largely untapped aspect of media-practice education. This research uses an exploratory approach with media-practice academics and students in order to examine the evidence and nature of gratitude within media-practice education. Given the exploratory nature of the study, interim findings are reported. The research finds media-practice students to be open to gratitude having a place within their educational experi…
The United Kingdom's First Woman Law Professor: An Archerian Analysis
In 1970, at Queen's University Belfast, Claire Palley became the first woman to hold a Chair in Law at a United Kingdom university. However, little is known about the circumstances surrounding this event, or Claire Palley herself. This article (part of an extended project exploring her life history) seeks to address the question ‘Was there something about Claire Palley herself that made it more likely she would become the United Kingdom's first f…
Gothic Horror? A Response to Margaret Thornton
Women Legal Academics – A New Research Agenda
Women academics have been the subject of suprisingly little academic research; this is particularly true of women legal academics. This article argues that it is important that research into women legal academics is carried out, not just to gain empirical evidence about the working lives of these women, but because in exploring these members of the ‘academic tribe’ of lawyers, important insights may be gained into the university as an institution…
International students and language support: A new survey
English Language support is arguably the most important academic support service which British institutions can offer to their international students. However, it is unlikely that this service will be of high quality unless it is provided by staff who are adequately resourced and whose work is acknowledged by the institution as playing an important part in a responsible recruitment strategy. The results of this survey offer insights into language…
Overseas Law Students: Language Support and Responsible Recruitment
Gothic Horror? A Response to Margaret Thornton
Women Legal Academics – A New Research Agenda
Women academics have been the subject of suprisingly little academic research; this is particularly true of women legal academics. This article argues that it is important that research into women legal academics is carried out, not just to gain empirical evidence about the working lives of these women, but because in exploring these members of the ‘academic tribe’ of lawyers, important insights may be gained into the university as an institution…
Overseas Law Students: Language Support and Responsible Recruitment
International students and language support: A new survey
English Language support is arguably the most important academic support service which British institutions can offer to their international students. However, it is unlikely that this service will be of high quality unless it is provided by staff who are adequately resourced and whose work is acknowledged by the institution as playing an important part in a responsible recruitment strategy. The results of this survey offer insights into language…
Women Legal Academics – A New Research Agenda
Women academics have been the subject of suprisingly little academic research; this is particularly true of women legal academics. This article argues that it is important that research into women legal academics is carried out, not just to gain empirical evidence about the working lives of these women, but because in exploring these members of the ‘academic tribe’ of lawyers, important insights may be gained into the university as an institution…
Gothic Horror? A Response to Margaret Thornton
The United Kingdom's First Woman Law Professor: An Archerian Analysis
In 1970, at Queen's University Belfast, Claire Palley became the first woman to hold a Chair in Law at a United Kingdom university. However, little is known about the circumstances surrounding this event, or Claire Palley herself. This article (part of an extended project exploring her life history) seeks to address the question ‘Was there something about Claire Palley herself that made it more likely she would become the United Kingdom's first f…
Gratitude: Does it have a place within media-practice education
Gratitude may be an important yet largely untapped aspect of media-practice education. This research uses an exploratory approach with media-practice academics and students in order to examine the evidence and nature of gratitude within media-practice education. Given the exploratory nature of the study, interim findings are reported. The research finds media-practice students to be open to gratitude having a place within their educational experi…
An Examined Life: Research into University Legal Education in the United Kingdom and the Journal of Law and Society
For academics, the nature of their work means that the Socratic demand to live an examined life has a particular force. In this article we look at the extent to which those working in university law schools in England and Wales have lived up to this suggestion, in the context of assessing the nature and quality of work on university legal education from the beginnings of university law schools. In doing so, we respond to the comments on such work…
The Changing Position of Legal Academics in the United Kingdom: Professionalization or Proletarianization
This article analyses changes to United Kingdom (UK) university law schools during the period coinciding with Phil Thomas’ career as a law teacher – the latter part of the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty‐first – in part illustrating the analysis with other examples from Thomas’ career. We will focus specifically on the way in which what it means to be a legal academic has altered, with UK legal academics having been prof…
Susan Bartie, Free Hands and Minds: Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars
In writing about three early Australian legal academics (Peter Brett, Alice Tay and Geoffrey Sawer) Susan Bartie had a number of objectives: to challenge “the persistent myth” that members of the first community of legal scholars in Australia are unimportant in terms of understanding Australian law and legal culture, and unremarkable compared to leading scholars in other Common Law jurisdictions (p. 1), to “counter fatalist accounts of the legal …
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law in Society and Culture (5 works) · Comparative and International Law Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Kingdom (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)