Dr Jacqueline Meredith is a Lecturer at Swinburne Law School. Her teaching and research interests lie primarily in the fields of employment/labour law, work health and safety law, and tort law. Her current research focuses on issues affecting workers’ rights to health and safety, alongside the boundaries between work and private life, with a particular focus on workplace surveillance technologies, sexual harassment, unfair dismissal, and workers’ compensation. 

She has published in top-ranked academic journals and co-authored a book on the intersection of law and technology, as well as a textbook on work health and safety law in Australia. Jacqueline has over eight years' experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate law students, including in the areas of tort law, work health and safety law, and advanced legal research.

Jacqueline completed her PhD in Law at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral research examined various statutory employment nexus tests which draw a divide between work and non-work across different areas of labour law. Her research also considered the theoretical and normative basis for properly distinguishing between work-related and private conduct.

Jacqueline has a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford where she studied as an Oxford-Australia Scholar. She graduated from the BCL (LLM equivalent) with Distinction and a Law Faculty Prize. Jacqueline also holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours and University Medal in Law) from the University of Newcastle (AU). Prior to undertaking postgraduate study, Jacqueline worked as a Judge’s Associate in the Supreme Court of Victoria.