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Dr Elisabeth Griffiths is an Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School and a qualified Solicitor (non-practising). Elisabeth is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a National Teaching Fellow. She is currently the Associate Head for Education for Northumbria Law School. Elisabeth’s research interests are equality law and disability discrimination in the workplace, in legal education and as a lived experience. She has co-edited a collection on the gender pay gap, published research on religious discrimination in the workplace, ableism in higher education, the gendered nature of promotion criteria and fairness barriers to entry into the legal profession for law students from widening participation backgrounds. She was awarded her Professional Doctorate in Law in 2021 with her thesis entitled ‘The lived experience of disability in law school: present realities and possible futures’. Elisabeth has taught employment law on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and has supervised projects at all levels from undergraduate to PhD. She has held several leadership roles at Northumbria School including Head of Subject and Director of Equality Diversity and Inclusion. She is a member of the Law Society’s Disabled Solicitors Network Committee. She is a Trustee and Vice-Chair of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) and chairs their Book Prize Committee. She is also a member of the SLSA EDI Sub-Committee and she has led the SLSA mentoring scheme for Early Career Scholars alongside running their social media accounts. She was previously Chair of the EDI Sub-Committee for the Society of Legal Scholars.