Lisa Claydon

At The Open University, Lisa Claydon teaches on the Public and Criminal Law module, and on Law, Society and Culture. She is the module leader for an undergraduate, Level 3, independent study module called Exploring Legal Boundaries. This module provides undergraduate students with research training and allows them to explore an area of interest to them which is law related. She is interested in how people learn and has a particular research interest in making learning engaging. She researches criminal law and is particularly interested in mental condition and other defences which are based on excusing conditions. She is actively researching the intersection between cognitive neuroscience and the criminal law. She has just successfully completed an AHRC funded research project, which examined neurocognitive and legal approaches to a personal sense of agency, why and how we develop a sense of responsibility for our actions.  She is working at present on researching what neuroscience may tell us about memory evidence in the courtroom.

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