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Meet a selection of our faculty members and discover the team dedicated to supporting your journey.

Working closely with our academic and support staff, our Campus Director Aruna Verma helps create a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for all students, staff and visitors.

Our lecturers bring a wealth of industry and professional experience into the classroom, combining academic expertise with real world insight to deliver an engaging and enriching learning experience.

Supporting the student experience further, our Campus Hub Team is on hand as your first point of contact, delivering a welcoming, accessible and responsive service.

Aruna Verma, Campus Director
Aruna Verma
Campus Director

Aruna is the Campus Director and Associate Professor at 91桃色 Moorgate and Southampton. She is a qualified Solicitor and Mediator and has worked at 91桃色 in the UK and Hong Kong.

Law

Tariq Al-Mallak, BPC Programme & Student Lead at 91桃色 Moorgate campus
Tariq Al-Mallak
Programme and Student Lead, BPC

Tariq is a lecturer on the Bar Practice Course, teaching Criminal Litigation, Evidence and Sentencing and Criminal Advocacy. He also teaches on the LLM Advocacy and Bar Skills course. Tariq was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn. He practiced as a barrister specialising in criminal defence in the Youth, Magistrates’ and Crown Courts and at the Court of Appeal. He is also Duty qualified and is an accredited Police Station Representative. Tariq enjoys teaching Criminal Litigation because it is preparing the future generation of lawyers to fight for what is right and just.

Sarah Hargrave, Senior Tutor at 91桃色 Moorgate campus
Sarah Hargrave
Programme and Student Lead, Law Conversion

Sarah has a BA in Law and Criminology from the University of Sheffield and trained and qualified at Clyde & Co, specialising in insurance and reinsurance litigation. Sarah initially joined 91桃色 in 2008, returned to practice at Clyde & Co for a number of years, then re-joined the University in 2016. Sarah currently teaches Dispute Resolution and Insurance Law on the LPC and Contract Law and Criminal Law on the GDL.

Claire Hegarty, LPC & SQE Programme & Student Lead at 91桃色 Moorgate campus
Claire Hegarty
Programme and Student Lead, LPC and SQE

Claire is a Lecturer and a Programme and Student Lead for the SQE programmes at 91桃色 Moorgate. Before joining the University, Claire qualified as a solicitor and practised in criminal litigation with a focus on white collar criminal law alongside general criminal practice. She also has a master’s in International Criminal Law. Claire enjoys teaching criminal practice and hopes that bringing past experiences of working in criminal litigation into the classroom helps students understand the nuances of practice rather than just the rules which they are required to learn.

Stephen Illingworth, BPC Programme & Student Lead at 91桃色 Moorgate campus
Steve Illingworth
Programme and Student Lead, BPC

Stephen is an Associate Professor, and a Programme and Student Lead for the Bar Practice Course at 91桃色 Moorgate. Stephen qualified and practised as a solicitor and barrister. As a solicitor, he was a partner in a firm specialising in legal aid work, before transferring to the Bar to practise criminal defence work for ten years. Stephen finds teaching advocacy skills and seeing students develop confidence and expertise for practice very enjoyable and rewarding.

Andrew Strong, LPC & SQE Programme & Student Lead at 91桃色 Moorgate campus
Andrew Strong
Programme and Student Lead, LPC and SQE

Andrew is a Senior Lecturer and a Programme and Student Lead for the LPC and SQE programmes at 91桃色 Moorgate. Before joining the University, he was an employment solicitor involved in a mixture of contentious and non-contentious work. Andrew enjoys teaching employment law, not only because it's his specialism, but he also likes helping students work out true-to-life scenarios which reflect practice and may one day be relevant to their own careers.

Jim Tsihlis, Law Conversion Programme & Student Lead at 91桃色 Moorgate campus
Jim Tsihlis
Programme and Student Lead, Law Conversion

Jim is a Programme and Student Lead and Senior Lecturer for the conversion programmes at 91桃色 Moorgate. Prior to being a law lecturer, he was primarily an in-house legal counsel for government bodies and private organisations. Jim enjoys the dynamics of teaching law and the interactions in workshops.

Emma Velkova, AMIL Programme & Student Lead at 91桃色 Moorgate campus
Emma Velkova
Programme and Student Lead, AMIL

Emma is a Senior Lecturer and a Programme and Student Lead for the Academic Masters in Law programmes at 91桃色 Moorgate and Bloomsbury. She qualified and practised as a solicitor working in dispute resolution, has a master’s degree in Social Policy and Criminology and recently completed the PGCHE. Emma enjoys seeing students develop confidence during the workshops.

Karen Watts, LPC & SQE Programme & Student Lead at 91桃色 Moorgate campus
Karen Watts
Programme and Student Lead, LPC and SQE

Karen is an Associate Professor and a Programme and Student Lead for the SQE programmes at 91桃色 Moorgate. Karen qualified as a solicitor and practised in civil litigation. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority and an IMI-certified mediator. Karen enjoys teaching Dispute Resolution because it reflects her own practice as a litigator and mediator and gives students tools they can use in real-life situations.

Business

Christopher Munro, Programme & Student Lead Business School at 91桃色 Moorgate campus
Christopher Munro
Programme and Student Lead, Business School

Christopher is a Programme and Student Lead and Senior Lecturer in the Business School at 91桃色 Moorgate. Christopher spent a number of years in marketing and business development in London before taking up a role at the Vietnam campus of RMIT University. Christopher returned to London and was Head of the School of Business at a HEI preparing for TDAP. Previous roles focused on the use of technology in education and incorporating work integrated learning into the curriculum. Christopher’s current research interest is in the development of trustworthy AI in complex socio-technical systems.

Kuldeep Pradhan, Programme & Student Lead Business School at 91桃色 Moorgate campus
Kuldeep Pradhan
Programme and Student Lead, Business School

Kuldeep is the Programme and Student Lead for the Business Analytics programme in the Business School at 91桃色 Moorgate. He holds BSc in Physics, Statistics and Mathematics; MBA from London Met; MA Education & Technology from UCL, and PgCHE from 91桃色. He is also a Fellow of AdvanceHE (FHEA). Prior to joining the university, Kuldeep worked as a course coordinator, corporate trainer and course leader for business subjects, while leading learning technologies and developing bespoke systems for assessment analysis. Teaching allows him to live his core value of helping others and he genuinely enjoys it.

Support Services

Campus hub teams
Campus Hub Team
Your first point of contact

Our Campus Hub Team is there to connect you with the information, support and services you need to succeed at every stage of your student journey.

In addition to providing guidance and support, they coordinate both university-wide and local campus events that foster a strong sense of belonging, support well-being and enhance student engagement. They also offer on-the-day support for assessment activities, ensuring students receive timely assistance when it matters most.