Lynn joined the University after working in banking and the civil service and running her own entertainments business. She has taught a wide variety of subjects in the Law School and has also taught on the international programme in Mauritius. Lynn has written extensive distance learning materials for CPD courses.

She has been nominated for teaching excellence awards by the student body, including a national award.

Lynn was part of the External Stakeholder Advisory Group reviewing the BTEC Nationals in Applied Law. She was the course leader of the LLM Masters in Law programme before becoming the course leader of the LLB (Hons) degree and latterly the course leader of the LLM Common Professional Examination. Lynn was one of the institutional leads on the Advance HE collaborate project in assessment and feedback in law and has publications in learning and teaching and criminal law.

Lynn is currently involved in mooting, outreach, pedagogic research, level 6 year tutoring on the LLB (Hons) course and teaching Criminal Law, Criminal Litigation, Tort and Practical Legal Skills. 

Criminal law theory and pedagogic research.

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

• LLM (Distinction)
• PG Cert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
• LLB (Hons) (First class)

‘Rough Justice: The GBH Rule in Murder’ conference paper presented at Aberdeen University and published in Voices, (CSP 2011), edited by Kathryn Vincent and Juan Fernando Botero-Garcia.

Jones, D., Ellison, L. (2018) First year law students: the impact of assessment type on attainment, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Taylor and Francis https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2018.1496398

Ellison, Lynn, (2019) Coercive and Controlling Men and the Women Who Kill Them, Wolverhampton Law Journal, Vol. 3. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3494569

Dawn Jones & Lynn Ellison, (2020) When is a word not just a word? An investigation into the dissonance and synergy between intention and understanding of the language of feedback in legal education, The Law Teacher, DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2020.1729012

Lynn Ellison, “Oh Ghosh, that’s not dishonest!” A note on the test for dishonesty. R v David Barton and Rosemary Booth [2020] EWCA Crim 575 (2020) 4 WLJ 83

Lynn Ellison and Dawn Jones, " 'Am I still on mute?' A reflection of online teaching in the Covid-19 pandemic." (2020) 5 WLJ 47

Dawn Jones and Lynn Ellison, 'Opportunities to improve the process of 'assessment unpacking' resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic', in Patrick Baughan (editor), Assessment and Feedback in Law, Case Studies from the Sector (2021) Advance HE, 4-13

Lynn Ellison, Dawn Jones, Anima Sultana and Jack Whitehouse, "The curious case of the colliery and the blanket," a paper presented at the Association of Law Teachers Conference 2023, University of Westminster, London, April 2023.