Dr John Woodward

Associate Lecturer John Woodward researches and teaches in the fields of civil dispute resolution and clinical practice. John began his academic career in 2014 as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales. In 2017 he joined the University of Newcastle as a Sessional Lecturer and Tutor and in 2019 transitioned to an Associate Lecturer.

John is an accredited Mediator (under NMAS), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, is a member of the ADR Committee of the Law Society of NSW and is on the Law Society’s accredited mediator’s panel.  He is the President  of the Australasian Dispute Resolution Research Network and is a member of the steering committee of the Asian Pacific Mediation Forum.  He is also a committee member of the Newcastle Chapter of Resolution Institute. He is an arbitrator of the Local Court of NSW under section 38 of the Civil Procedure Act 2005. He is also the Dispute Resolution Officer for the Northern NSW Soccer Federation.    

John has presented at a number of national and international fora including the Asia Pacific Mediation Forum in South Korea, the Islamic University of Riau in Indonesia, University of Tasmania, Flinders University Adelaide, the University of NSW, the University of Otago in Dunedin New Zealand, the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland and at the ICFAI University in Hyderabad, India and the Australian National Mediation Conference in Canberra.

Prior to academia John was a solicitor practicing in commercial litigation from 1987-2014 the Newcastle region. John’s main area of practice involved insolvency, building and construction law and insurance law.