Dr Rachel Spencer is an award-winning educator and is currently a Learning Adviser in the Learning Support Hub. Rachel's background covers both Law and Creative Writing. Rachel has held senior academic roles in three universities and over many years she has taught Civil Procedure, Legal Ethics and Law and Literature. Rachel has exertise in experiential learning and work integrated learning.  Rachel is passionate about access to justice and she has designd and directed clinical legal education programs in three universities. Clinical legal education involved final year law students (under supervision) providing free legal advice to members of the public. 
 
Rachel holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA), a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Adelaide, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the South Australian Institute of Technology, a Master of Creative Arts (MCA) from Flinders University and is currently undertaking a PhD in creative writing at the same institution. She also has a Graduate Certificate in Education (Academic Practice) from UniSA. Rachel has extensive experience in the legal profession, having practised in a variety of areas of law, including commercial dispute resolution, insurance, insolvency, criminal law, family law, intellectual property and disputed estates. She has been in-house counsel in the wine industry, a corporate solicitor in the radio broadcasting sector, a senior associate of a major Adelaide law firm, a Governor of the State Theatre Company of SA, the Chair of the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and an Associate Professor in Law and Direcor of Monash Law Clinics at Monash University. 
 
Rachel’s research interests have included legal ethics, clinical legal education, experiential learning, the links between law, literature and popular culture, how media representations of lawyers (both real and fictional) affect access to justice, and the role of narrative in the adversarial system. Rachel has published various books, book chapters and journal articles on a variety of areas of law, legal ethics, legal education, true crime writing and life writing.