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Dr

Lisa N Billington

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Law

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Law

BIO

Dr Lisa Billington has been a Lecturer with the UTS Faculty of Law since 2022. She teaches across two core first year subjects: Criminal Law and Procedure and Foundations of Law.

 

Lisa is an early career researcher with excellent cross-institutional collegial connections and a strong background in student-centred, practice-oriented legal education. Her primary areas of legal expertise are criminal law and procedure, criminology, foundations of law and the rights of Indigenous peoples.

 

Lisa has served as the Law Faculty Coordinator for the U@Uni Program since 2024. She has a long-standing interest in transition pedagogy and in the wellbeing aspects of tertiary legal education; in addition to her degrees in law (LLB (Hons I); PhD), Lisa holds a Graduate Diploma in Counselling (Hons). Lisa brings both legal and counselling expertise into her day-to-day student-facing work with first year law students and to support the Law Faculty's U@Uni Pathways students.

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Lecturer
    University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law, AustraliaJun 2022 - present

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY ORGANISATIONAL UNITS MEMBERSHIP

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Teaching Fellow
    University of New South Wales, Law and Justice, Australia2022 - 2022
  • Sessional Academic
    Macquarie University, Macquarie Law School, Sydney, Australia2018 - 2022
  • Course Coordinator, Decoding the Code
    Australian Institute of Theological Education, Broken Bay Institute, Sydney, Australia2022 - 2022

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Technology Sydney, Australia20 Jul 2018 - 14 Dec 2022
  • Bachelor of Laws (Hons I)
    Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia2017
  • Graduate Diploma Counselling (Hons)
    Excelsia College, Sydney, Australia2004

UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 4 Quality Education

PROFILE TYPE

  • Academic

AVAILABILITY

  • Collaborative projects
  • Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
  • Media enquiries
  • Membership of an advisory committee
  • Teaching provision