Dr Elaine Freer

I am a part-time College Teaching Officer at Robinson College, where I supervise Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure and Evidence, and Criminology, Sentencing and the Penal System on the undergraduate course.

Having read Law as an undergraduate at Cambridge, I went to Kaplan Law School to complete the BPTC as a Lord Denning Scholar of The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. At the end of the BPTC I was awarded the Cloth Fair Scholarship by the Kalisher Trust. Returning to Cambridge, I completed the MPhil in Criminology before doing a PhD at Keele University on an ACORN scholarship which was jointly funded by Keele and The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. This research was a change from my previous academic interests as it took a socio-legal track to explore the capacity of professional associations to influence the behaviour of the profession, examining especially this capacity in relation to the socio-economic demographics of entrants to the profession. During my PhD I was a College Teaching Associate at Robinson College.

After my PhD I completed pupillage at a leading set of criminal chambers in London, and since October 2016 I have combined being a practitioner with being a College Teaching Officer.