After her Chinese studies and two years’ work in China, Rachel trained as a solicitor and practiced for ten years. Having started teaching in China, she continued this in the evenings throughout her legal career, teaching English and then lecturing Legal Executive students in the law core subjects at Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham. She left practice in 2001 to join the new University of Law (UL) in Birmingham. After 13 years, Rachel left UL to start her training business and freelanced as a Visiting Lecturer (VL) at various local universities, with a three year spell as a part time senior lecturer at Birmingham City University. She started carrying out VL work for UoB in 2017, and in 2021 became a part time Teaching Fellow.