Andrea is a qualified solicitor and has worked at Northumbria University for 26 years in the following positions: Principal Lecturer, Associate Dean, Head of School of Law. During this time, she helped establish the internationally recognised Student Law Office; led all inspections of quality of education in the department for 15 years; and represented the Law School with the regulators of the Law Society, the Bar Standards Board and the Solicitors Regulation Authority which provided experience in the structure and discipline of educational programmes.
Andrea has chaired a number of Boards and Committees and has been a Foundation Governor at St. Anthony’s Girls School (latterly Academy) for 20 years, elected as Chair of Governors in 2008. Andrea became Chair of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Education Trust in 2018 and held this position until the merger with Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust in 2020. Andrea is also a Trustee for the Sisters of Mercy Sunderland.