After careers in social work and legal practice, Lynn Hagger became a legal academic with lectureships at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and now Sheffield. She has taught administrative/public law, contract, environmental and European law but now teaches Principles of Healthcare Law and Ethics, Regulating Healthcare and Torts at undergraduate level and on the Principles of Health Law and Policy and Vulnerable Patients in Healthcare Practice at postgraduate level.

In parallel with these activities, Lynn has been involved in the NHS for over 25 years, mostly as a non-executive director of acute hospital boards. She was Chairperson of Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust for nine years and currently serves as a Non-executive Director at Leeds Teaching NHS Trust. Her research is focused in the field of healthcare law and ethics and her approach involves how using a human rights framework, empirical evidence, and her international and NHS experience can strengthen the rights of the individual citizen (and children in particular) in the healthcare setting. Lynn also has an interest in how developing technologies should be regulated.

She is part of a network of multi-disciplinary research collaborators in the national and international context, in particular the Northern Genetics Knowledge Park, the Institute of Human Genetics in Newcastle, TREAT-NMD (Translational Research in Europe – Assessment and Treatment of Neuromuscular Diseases) Ethics Committee, the EU Neuromics Ethics Committee and the University of Lubeck in Germany.