The project involves students from The Meriton - a pupil referral unit that provides education and support for young mothers - attending a series of teaching sessions at the University. The project is designed to challenge people’s prejudices, whether these be society’s preconceptions about what young people can achieve, or young people’s negative expectations of university. 

The sessions include interactive and engaging lectures and seminars, wherein students will debate a number of topics such as the shifting boundaries of sexual offences, law and policy relating to domestic violence, the nature of discrimination, and others. Students will work with both fictitious and real scenarios and encouraged to express what they think is going on, what they feel should happen, what they think the law is, what it actually is, and then consider how law really works in practice. 

Those referred by the Meriton are not like the average undergraduate student; they bring with them a range of personal experiences and opinions which can steer sessions in unpredictable and exciting ways, leading to a much richer experience. 

Sessions are run by Professor Lois Bibbings of the School of Law and Doug Jennings, UG Student Recruitment Manager of the UK Student Recruitment Office.