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Michelle Weldon-Johns is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Dundee Business School, Abertay University, serving as Programme Leader for the LLB (Scots) Law programme. Her expertise spans employment law, work-family rights, and equality law. She teaches Employment Law, Legal Philosophy and Human Rights, and Private International Law, and delivers guest lectures on Human Rights. Her research focuses on employment equality law, particularly the legal frameworks governing work-family rights for working parents and carers, with an emphasis on fathers and atypical family structures. She has authored a book on assisted reproduction and discrimination law and is actively involved in projects like 'Regulating the Boundaries of Work-Life Conflict.'
Education: LLB (Hons) from the University of Strathclyde (2004), PhD in Law from the same institution (2010), and a PG Cert in Teaching and Learning from Abertay University (2012). Prior to joining Abertay in 2008, she was a law tutor and research assistant at Strathclyde.
Research interests include UK/EU employment law, comparative perspectives (e.g., Sweden, USA), and the evolving role of fathers in legal frameworks. She has secured over £8,000 in grants from the Clark Foundation for student travel to academic conferences and supervised Carnegie Vacation Scholars.
Esteem roles include Co-director of the FAWN network, Convenor of the Society of Legal Scholars Labour Law Conference Section, and board memberships with the Scottish Universities Law Institute (SULI) and Juridical Review. She has presented at international conferences and seminars, including discussions on Brexit’s impact on Scottish employment law and gendered implications of pandemic lockdowns.
Her work aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals related to education and gender equality, emphasizing legal reforms to address modern family dynamics and workplace challenges.
