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Katherine Stylianou

Biography

Katherine Stylianou is a Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University (LSBU) and has been a practising mediator since 1995, gaining her accreditation in 1998. She has had 21 years of experience in developing and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate modules in ADR and mediation at LSBU. The other institutions for which Katherine has worked include Birkbeck, University of London (external examiner and guest lecturer on the MSc Conflict Studies and Mediation course) and Westminster University (wrote and delivered a course on family mediation on the LLM Dispute Resolution course). Katherine has been a fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2005, when she also obtained a Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. She originally trained as a barrister in 1987, working at the Family and Criminal Bar before taking up her position at LSBU in 1991. Katherine has been an assessor and trainer for Lorraine Bramwell Associates since 2013 and a PCC/supervisor to family mediators since 2015. From 2012 to December 2016, she served on the College of Mediators’ Professional Standards Committee, before which she was an elected Governor of the UK College of Family Mediators. She continues to be involved as an adviser to the College of Mediators.