Denise took her LLB at City University and her LLM in Human Rights at Birkbeck College, University of London. She then qualified as a teacher by taking a Post Graduate Certificate in Education at UCL, Institute of Education. As well as teaching at Foundation level, she also tutors law undergraduates at Birkbeck College.

During her years as a law student, she found most of her lectures and seminars lacked interactivity, creativity and sufficient use of practical examples. In her own teaching, she succeeds in bringing the subject to life, helping her students “fall in love with the subject through the use of practical examples, interactive activities, engaging debate and encouragement”.

The results are self-evident with her students at IFG securing offers from many leading law schools including Reading, Royal Holloway, East Anglia and Swansea.