Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice, Northumbria University Newcastle, UK.

Fellow of Higher Education Academy (now AdvanceHE).

University College, University of Durham, UK. 

Topic: Unauthorised disclosures of official information and whistleblowing.

Bar Vocational Course and Postgraduate Certificate, City Law School, City University London. 

Awarded Wilfred Getz Scholarship (£10,000). Called to the Bar of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn (England and Wales).

Undergraduate Degree in Law, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.