Senior Lecturer in Law, Newcastle Law School
Nikki’s research expertise is in the areas of sexual violence, law and justice; transformative justice, restorative justice and sexual violence; tort law and gender; and gender and legal education. She has written widely on tort law and sexual violence, and has undertaken empirical research with sexual violence survivors, third sector organisations, and lawyers. Currently, she is particularly interested in the role of tort law in feminist social movements for gender justice, and is co-editing (with Dr Lucia Kula (SOAS) the international and interdisciplinary Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).
Nikki is Newcastle Law School’s Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and teaches Law and Gender; Tort Law; and Criminal Law. She is on the steering committee for Newcastle University's Gender Research Group and is the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Feminist Legal Studies.