Mrs Kim Fawcett
Lecturer in Law

Summary

Kim joined Brunel in 2023 as a Lecturer in Private Law. Prior to that, Kim worked as a Teaching Fellow in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Durham University.

She graduated with a first-class honours Law Degree from Teesside University in 2017, where she was also awarded the Oxford University Press Prize for highest achieving year one student, the Ian Pennock Prize for excellent achievement in the LLB, the Ian Pennock Prize for excellent achievement in Property Law and the Andrew Scott Prize for excellent achievement in Criminal Law. She went on to be awarded the Doctoral Training Alliance Social Policy Scholarship to undertake her PhD entitled “When Women Abduct: Does the Hague Convention protect Mother’s and Children who are escaping Domestic Abuse across Boarders?” She will be examined next year.

Kim has a wealth of teaching experience; she started teaching English Language in Spain in 1999 and has been teaching in higher education since 2017. She has taught several subjects, from Land Law to European Union Law although she specialises in Family Law and Criminal Law, with a focus on Domestic Abuse and the Sexual Offences.

Her research interests focus on international family law, specifically the Hague Abduction Convention 1980 and the impact the Convention has on victims of Domestic Abuse. She also has an interest in the domestic Family Court system, with a focus on abused mothers and their outcomes.

Kim is a former trustee for GlobalARRK and is now a member of the Hague Mothers (a FiliA legacy project) expert group. She also volunteers as a McKenzie Friend in Family Court cases where mothers who experience domestic abuse are unrepresented. Her latest case was decided in favour of the mother after a two-year battle and is due to be published in the coming months.

Qualifications

LLB Laws (First Class Honours), Teesside University, 2017

PhD, Teesside University, 2025 (anticipated) 

Responsibility

Module Convenor Family Law

Member of the Extenuating Circumstances Board 

Member of BPC Academic Advisory Board and Board of Examiners