About
Amber Heaviside serves as a Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Bolton, where she leads the Family Law module and supports students' academic development. Having completed both her LLB and LLM (with Distinction) at the same institution, she brings practitioner-level insight to her teaching while advancing legal scholarship through active PhD research.
Her educational journey includes:
- LLB, University of Bolton
- LLM (Distinction), University of Bolton, specializing in Human Rights Law and Family Law
Dr. Heaviside's research focuses on critical intersections of Family Law and Human Rights, with particular emphasis on transgender parents within the UK legal system. Her current PhD work examines how family court practices and legislative frameworks create Human Rights violations for gender-diverse parents, analyzing custody disputes, birth certificate recognition, and systemic barriers in family law proceedings. She maintains a broader scholarly interest in the reciprocal relationship between legal structures and societal evolution, investigating how law both shapes and is reshaped by cultural transformations.
As an emerging academic, Dr. Heaviside combines teaching excellence with cutting-edge research in socially relevant legal domains. Her work addresses urgent gaps in family law protections for minority communities while contributing to broader discourse on legal evolution in response to societal change. She actively mentors law students through the Family Law module while building her research profile in gender and law scholarship.
