About us

Mrs Liz Hardie, Director

Liz is the Director of SCiLAB, the Scholarship Centre for Innovation in online Legal and Business Education for the Faculty of Business and Law. She is also a senior lecturer in the law school, and an Associate Lecturer tutoring a variety of law modules.

Liz has worked for the law school since 2006, initially as an Associate Lecturer, from 2010 as a Student Experience Manager, from 2020 as Teaching Director and from 2023 as senior lecturer. As Teaching Director she led the introduction of the OU's new LLB from 2021 - 2023.

Prior to joining the law school Liz was a practicing solicitor in the areas of family law and employment law.

Dr Helen Selby-Fell, Deputy Director

Helen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Policing Organisation and Practice (POP), where she is Module Chair and involved in both production design and presentation for a number of policing related modules. In addition, Helen is (co) Lead for Research & Scholarship for the POP Department, and a member of the POP Leadership Team. Helen works closely with the Centre for Police Research & Learning (CPRL) and is currently involved in a number of research endeavours. Helen’s professional career specialised in research and analysis in the police service (where she held the roles of Head of Analysis and Director of Commissioning, Policy & Research for most of her career in the police service). Helen’s academic career and research interests have centred around both ‘evidence based policing’, and forensic (investigative) psychology.