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Danon Pritchard

Associate Professor, Director of Digital Literacies

The City Law School Professional law programmes

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Overview

Danon is an Associate Professor and the Director of Digital Literacies at The City Law School. Danon led the initial design and launch of City St George's first SQE training programme and has extensive experience of teaching across both undergraduate and postgraduate law programmes, as well as delivering training to legal practitioners. Her main teaching areas relate to Legal Practice, AI and Legal Technology, Professional Legal Skills, Professional Conduct & Ethics and Digital Literacies. Danon's research interests include AI & Learning Design, Technology Enhanced Learning and Digital Literacies, and she is currently a part-time doctoral student in Technology Enhanced Learning at Lancaster University, where her research is exploring the influence of the technologization of legal practice on the development of digital capabilities in legal education and training. 

Danon has been involved in a broad range of learning design and knowledge management projects both at City St George's and at previous organisations including BPP University, Competition & Markets Authority and the University of Hertfordshire, including designing and leading Company Law, Business Law & Practice, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Acquisitions, Commercial Law and a range of professional skills modules. Danon is a Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology, a Senior Fellow of Advance HE and is an External Examiner for the LLB and MSc Law and Professional Practice at Kings College London. Prior to her teaching career, Danon was a corporate solicitor in private practice.

Qualifications

  • Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology, Association for Learning Technology, United Kingdom
  • Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom
  • Solicitor (non-practising - working in higher education), SRA, United Kingdom
  • LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
  • LLB (Hons), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Postgraduate training

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law, London, United Kingdom

Professional activities

Events/conferences (8)

  • Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference. (Conference) University of Exeter (2026). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Developing 'next-gen' legal research skills: agile learning design to support future-ready law students & legal educators
    Author: Pritchard, D.
  • Disrupting Tradition: Pedagogical Innovation in Legal Education. (Conference) The Open University (2026).
    Paper: Foundations and Frontiers - supporting development of traditional and digitally mediated professional legal skills
    Author: Pritchard, D.
  • Building Bridges: A symposium on Human-AI Interaction. (Conference) University of Warwick (2025). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The Educator's Dilemma: GenAI's promise and peril for instructional and learning design - a case study of Human-AI interaction
    Author: Pritchard, D.
  • Symposium: The Role of AI in Legal Education – Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers. (Conference) University of Westminster, London, UK (2025). Invited speaker.
    Paper: “GenAIded”? A case study of Human-AI collaboration for instructional and learning design in a legal education context
    Author: Pritchard, D.
  • The Open University: launch event for 'AI, Law and Legal Training' resources. London, UK (2025). Invited speaker.
    Description: Panellist (AI & Legal Education)
  • City St George's GenAI Day. (2025).
    Description: Panellist (AI & Education)
  • The Alan Turing Institute: PhD student presentations. (2025). Invited speaker.
    Paper: How is the technologization of legal practice influencing the development of digital capabilities in legal education & training in England & Wales?​
    Author: Pritchard, D.
    Description: Selected to present my ongoing PhD research at this interdisciplinary event.
  • UCISA webinar: Striving for consistency in VLE module design. online (2024). Invited speaker.
    Paper: More than a document repository? Exploring the importance of learning design on VLE module development
    Author: Danon Pritchard
    Description: Presented findings from my phenomenographic study which explored student and staff attitudes to VLE module site learning design across several HEI’s in the UK.

Keynote lecture/speech

  • 'SQE route into law - what works best and how can we advise students'. Online (2022). Invited by AGCAS (Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services) to present this webinar to their members

Online articles (3)