Teaching
Education & Teaching Experience
Professor Alghrani is an award-winning educator with extensive experience of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional education. Her teaching spans medical law and ethics, criminal law, tort law, family law and the English legal system, with particular expertise in interdisciplinary teaching at the intersection of law, medicine and bioethics.
She has designed and led popular undergraduate and postgraduate modules, including Law, Medicine and Ethics II (undergraduate) and Children, Medicine and Law (postgraduate). Her innovative approach to teaching has been recognised through the University of Liverpool’s Teaching and Learning Award for Experiential Learning (2018) and the Liverpool Guild of Students’ Best Lecturer of the Year Award (2015). Her teaching is characterised by a commitment to making complex legal and ethical issues accessible, engaging and relevant to contemporary challenges.
Professor Alghrani has held senior educational leadership roles, including Associate Dean for Education in the School of Law and Social Justice and Departmental Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead. As Associate Dean, she helped shape educational strategy, curriculum development and the enhancement of teaching and learning through her membership of the Faculty Education Committee and her roles as Chair of the School Board of Studies and the School Teaching Development Fund Committee. As Departmental EDI Lead, she championed inclusive teaching practices, equality of opportunity and an accessible learning environment for students from diverse backgrounds. Her wider contributions to academic governance have included membership of the Faculty Progress Committee and the University Disciplinary Committee (2018–2022).
She is committed to supporting colleagues through teaching and research mentoring, peer review and professional development. Her educational experience extends beyond law students to interdisciplinary and professional audiences, including medical students and healthcare practitioners.
Professor Alghrani has successfully supervised PhD researchers to completion and has served as an external examiner for MPhil and PhD examinations at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Melbourne and Manchester. She has also served as an external examiner for taught programmes at the Universities of Glasgow and Sussex and undertaken external advisory roles in the development and approval of academic programmes.
Modules for 2026-27
CAPSTONE PROJECT
Module code: HLAC705
Role: Teaching
CRITICAL MEDICAL HUMANITIES
Module code: HLAC711
Role: Teaching
CRITICAL MEDICAL HUMANITIES
Module code: HLAC701
Role: Teaching
MEDICAL LAW AND ETHICS I
Module code: LAW351
Role: Teaching
MEDICO-LEGAL PROBLEMS
Module code: LAW541
Role: Module Co-ordinator