Rachael O’Connor

Rachael O'Connor (she/her) is an Associate Professor in Legal Education, University Academic Lead for Personal Tutoring and a LITE Fellow at the University of Leeds. The focus of Rachael's scholarship is developing authentic relationships through reverse mentoring. She has won prizes internally and externally for this scholarship and has published many papers related to reverse mentoring. Rachael is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Michael Beverley Innovation Fellow. Rachael is currently undertaking exploring the intersections between co-designed staff/student reverse mentoring and academic personal tutoring. Rachael is also a trustee of legal mental health charity LawCare and is currently undertaking a project in partnership with LawCare, piloting an inclusion and wellbeing focused reverse mentoring scheme in the legal profession.