Dr Catriona Cannon

  • Lecturer in Equality Law (School of Law)

telephone: 0141 330 1986
email: Catriona.Cannon@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412

Biography

Catriona joined the School of Law as a Lecturer in November 2018. She has a PhD (2018) and a LL.B with Honours in Scots Law (2003) from the University of Glasgow and a Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (2004) from the Glasgow Graduate School of Law. After completing a legal traineeship, she worked for many years in commercial legal practice as a qualified solicitor specialising in Employment Law.  

Catriona’s teaching and research interests lie in the areas of equality law and labour law.  She is a member of the School’s GO Justice Centre, the mission of which is to empower communities and individuals to use the law to access justice and achieve social and economic inclusion.  She is also a member of the research team for the Women in Law Project whose mission is to research the past, document the present and advocate for the future of women in law in Scotland and across the world.  She recently became an invited member of the People’s Justice Network, which was set up by the new Centre for People’s Justice.   

In the School, Catriona holds the roles of Deputy Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, Student Carer Coordinator, Co-lead of the Decolonising the School of Law Forum, and Deputy Director of Undergraduate Studies (Scots Law). 

Catriona is also a solicitor member of the Law Society of Scotland’s Employment Law and Equality Law sub-committees, Secretary of the Scottish Discrimination Lawyers’ Association and (with effect from November 2025) a Trustee of Close the Gap. 

Research interests

Catriona’s research interests lie broadly in the areas of equality law, anti-discrimination law and labour law.  She is particularly interested in the areas of religion, gender and disability equality, and in the preferred regulatory methods for achieving transformative change.  She has experience in empirical and comparative methodologies and enjoys working collaboratively on research projects which address social justice issues.  

Publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2019 | 2016 | 2015
Number of items: 14.

2025

Busby, Nicole and Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Leading positive change? A human rights-based approach to positive equality duties. European Human Rights Law Review, (Accepted for Publication)

Busby, Nicole and Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Positive equality and human rights duties in Scotland. Edinburgh Law Review, 29(2), pp. 312-323. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2025.0968)

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Intervenors in anti-discrimination law cases in the UK: friends of justice? Civil Justice Quarterly, (Accepted for Publication)

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412, Esser, Irene-Marié ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9313-3296 and MacNeil, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-4292 (2025) The legal dimension of ‘corporate purpose’: a study of companies with a religious influence. European Business Law Review, (Accepted for Publication)

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412, Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, McPherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid (Eds.) (2025) Women, Law and Legal Work in Scotland: Dialogues about our Past, Present and Future. Edinburgh University Press. (In Press)

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Empathy and the Equality Act 2010 in cases on religion or belief. Juridical Review(2), pp. 78-96.

2024

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2024) Alice Taylor, Interpreting Discrimination Law Creatively: Statutory Discrimination Law in the UK, Canada and Australia [Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023. 264 pp, ISBN 9781509952922]. Industrial Law Journal, (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwae028)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)

2023

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2023) Muslim women in the workplace and the Equality Act 2010: opportunities for an intersectional analysis. International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 23(3), pp. 185-215. (doi: 10.1177/13582291231176513)

2021

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2021) “Fire and re-hire”: retain, abolish, or reform? Green's Employment Law Bulletin, 164, pp. 1-4.

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2021) Freedom of religious association: towards a purposive interpretation of the employment equality exceptions. Industrial Law Journal, 50(1), pp. 1-35. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwz025)

2019

Cannon, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2019) Brexit and discrimination law. Employment Law Bulletin, 150, pp. 2-4.

2016

Dukes, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2016) The role of social partners. In: Bogg, Alan, Costello, Cathryn and Davies, A.C.L. (eds.) Edward Elgar Research Handbook on European Labour Law. Series: Research handbooks in European law series. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 89-113. ISBN 9781783471119

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2016) Which beliefs merit accommodation in the workplace. Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 45, pp. 132-153.

2015

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2015) Religion and competing interests in the workplace and service delivery. Employment Law Bulletin, 128, pp. 3-5.

This list was generated on Tue Sep 16 12:39:16 2025 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Book Reviews | Edited Books
Number of items: 14.

Articles

Busby, Nicole and Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Leading positive change? A human rights-based approach to positive equality duties. European Human Rights Law Review, (Accepted for Publication)

Busby, Nicole and Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Positive equality and human rights duties in Scotland. Edinburgh Law Review, 29(2), pp. 312-323. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2025.0968)

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Intervenors in anti-discrimination law cases in the UK: friends of justice? Civil Justice Quarterly, (Accepted for Publication)

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412, Esser, Irene-Marié ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9313-3296 and MacNeil, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-4292 (2025) The legal dimension of ‘corporate purpose’: a study of companies with a religious influence. European Business Law Review, (Accepted for Publication)

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2025) Empathy and the Equality Act 2010 in cases on religion or belief. Juridical Review(2), pp. 78-96.

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2023) Muslim women in the workplace and the Equality Act 2010: opportunities for an intersectional analysis. International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 23(3), pp. 185-215. (doi: 10.1177/13582291231176513)

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2021) “Fire and re-hire”: retain, abolish, or reform? Green's Employment Law Bulletin, 164, pp. 1-4.

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2021) Freedom of religious association: towards a purposive interpretation of the employment equality exceptions. Industrial Law Journal, 50(1), pp. 1-35. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwz025)

Cannon, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2019) Brexit and discrimination law. Employment Law Bulletin, 150, pp. 2-4.

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2016) Which beliefs merit accommodation in the workplace. Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 45, pp. 132-153.

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2015) Religion and competing interests in the workplace and service delivery. Employment Law Bulletin, 128, pp. 3-5.

Book Sections

Dukes, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2016) The role of social partners. In: Bogg, Alan, Costello, Cathryn and Davies, A.C.L. (eds.) Edward Elgar Research Handbook on European Labour Law. Series: Research handbooks in European law series. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 89-113. ISBN 9781783471119

Book Reviews

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2024) Alice Taylor, Interpreting Discrimination Law Creatively: Statutory Discrimination Law in the UK, Canada and Australia [Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023. 264 pp, ISBN 9781509952922]. Industrial Law Journal, (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwae028)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)

Edited Books

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412, Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, McPherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid (Eds.) (2025) Women, Law and Legal Work in Scotland: Dialogues about our Past, Present and Future. Edinburgh University Press. (In Press)

This list was generated on Tue Sep 16 12:39:16 2025 BST.

Grants

“Closing the Gap: the public sector equality duty between law and implementation”, with Nicole Busby, Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Collaboration Grant (2025-2027).

“Migrant Worker Support Project”, with Maria Fletcher, Scottish Council on Global Affairs Insight Award (2025)

Supervision

Catriona is interested in supervising students with an interest in any aspect of: equality law, anti-discrimination law or labour law.  

  • Deng, Jiaheng
    Protection of the Rights of Female Migrant Domestic Workers and Child Labourers--Two Sides of the Same Coin

Beth Devlin, (2022) “Gender inequality in corporate law firms in Ireland: Recommendations for reform”, LL.M(R) Thesis

Teaching

  • Anti-Discrimination Law in Practice
  • Equality Law and Society
  • Women, Law and Society
  • Labour Law

Additional information

Secretary of the Scottish Discrimination Lawyers’ Association

Solicitor Member of the Law Society of Scotland Employment Law and Equality Law Sub-Committees

Trustee of  Close the Gap (with effect from Nov 2025)