Caroline’s academic career was preceded by a career in legal practice as a solicitor. Her primary research area is legal education, including investigating how principles of positive psychology may influence wellbeing of staff and students in higher education. She is a co-founder of Advancing Wellness in Law – a network created to promote wellness within legal education and the legal profession – and was deputy chair of the QAA’s advisory group that reviewed the Subject Benchmark Statement Review for law.

She is also part of an international team that is investigating perceptions of wellbeing in senior managers, to inform the development of international guidelines to support staff and students in law schools.