Jamie Atkinson

My profile

Biography

Who am I?

Having studied Modern History at undergraduate level, I completed the CPE and LPC at the College of Law (Guildford), and qualified as a solicitor in September 2000. I practised as an employment lawyer in London and then Oxford. I preferred the academic side of the law, so decided to do a PGCE at Oxford Brookes University and got my first lecturing post at Bradford College (West Yorkshire), teaching on the LLB (Hons). In 2005 I moved to BPP Law School in Leeds, where I taught Constitutional & Administrative Law and EU Law on the Graduate Diploma in Law. I started teaching at Manchester Met in September 2009. 

Specialism

Employment Law, Legal Professionalism & Ethics

Academic and professional qualifications

  • FHEA
  • LLM
  • BA (Hons)
  • CPE
  • LPC

Other academic service (administration and management)

Unit leader for Employment Law, Legal Professionalism & Ethics, Corporate Professional Regulation, Transparency and the workplace Knowledge Platform lead, Personal academic tutor

Impact

I am a member of the International Network on Leave Policies and Research. The Network is an international collaboration of academic researchers who are specialists in parental leave policies. The Network produces an annual report that details changes in parental leave provision worldwide. I have contributed to the UK section of the report since 2018. https://www.leavenetwork.org/introducing-the-network/ 

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

LLB - Employment Law, Legal Professionalism & Ethics, supervisor for L6 Dissertations and Projects 

Postgraduate teaching

LLM Dissertation supervisor

Research outputs

My recent work has focused on (1) alternatives to state and individual enforcement of labour law and (2) evaluating the efforts of policymakers and organisations to encourage new fathers to become more involved parents as well as continuing to work.