The Mediation Clinic at Canterbury Christ Church University: report and evaluation

In January 2008, with the assistance of funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and after nearly a year of preparatory research, the Christ Church Mediation Clinic was set up. This is a unique project in as much as it is the first such clinic to be based within a UK university.

This report will reflect on the progress made with the project, the contemporary relevance of a mediation clinic, it will include a summary of the clinic’s main aims, the research required to establish the right model of clinic and an explanation of how the curriculum has been developed using dispute resolution as a focus. The report will conclude with a summary of the service provision element of the clinic and a brief analysis of the work undertaken so far.