Doctor Sandy Noakes

Sandy is the Director of Academic Program, First Year and  Senior Lecturer in Law at Western Sydney University School of Law, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. She is a recognised authority and research leader in examining how cultures of workplace and university education govern via norms that reflect the sensibilities and interests of those in power. Her research leadership provides resources to challenge these norms, central to WSU’s goal of ‘setting the benchmark for diversity, inclusiveness and equity’.   Her research investigates the governance regimes—in employment and education—that shape and constrain people’s opportunities and choices, and how these regimes can be changed to promote more equitable outcomes. She has over twenty years of excellence in teaching at WSU and other law schools, including Macquarie University and the University of Wollongong.  Her professional expertise as a labour lawyer has informed her teaching of workplace law elective subjects, mentoring students to master the attributes employers want and securing employment opportunities for graduates.  From 2005 -2007 she was a Visiting Fellow at Macquarie University and since 2005, she has held the position of Revising Examiner in Real Property Law for the Legal Profession Admission Board, NSW. Whilst in legal practice, Sandy was a Senior Associate with Phillips Fox (now DLA Piper) and a consultant to McArdle Legal, an employment and industrial relations law firm in Sydney. 

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