Talking about Methods

INTRODUCTION

• Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies (with Linda Mulcahy)
• Doctrinal Legal Method (with Kristin van Zwieten)
• Working with Archives – Law and Historiography (with Michael Lobban)

QUALITATIVE METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES

1. Research Ethics

• • Ethics in Socio-Legal Research (with Anna Tsalapatanis)
  • Doing Research with Intellectually Disabled Research Participants (with Rosie Harding)

2. Ethnographic Approaches

• • Ethnography (with Fernanda Pirie)
  • Court Observation (with Sally Reardon)
  • Shadowing Human Rights Lawyers (with Agnieszka Kubal)
  • Observation (with Robert Dingwall)
  • Working with Communities Over Time (with Insa Lee Koch)

3. Interviewing

• • Introduction to Semi-Structured Interviewing (with Linda Mulcahy)
  • Oral History (with Anna Bryson)
  • Elite Interviewing (with Veronica Taylor)
  • Interviewing Judges (with Mark Coen)
  • Focus Groups (with Marina Kurkchiyan)

4. Comparative Approaches

• • Comparative Socio-Legal Research (with Ole Hammerslev & Hilary Sommerlad)
  • Comparative Law (with Matthew Dyson)

5. Biography and Life Stories

• • Feminist Legal Biography (with Rosemary Auchmuty)
  • Doing a Biography of a Piece of Legislation (with Sally Sheldon)
  • Feminist Oral History and Life Stories as a Radical Methodology (with Ellie Whittingdale, Marie Burton & Anna Cole)  

6. Feminist and Critical Methodologies

• • Feminist Judgements (with Rosemary Hunter, Sharon Cowan & Aoife O’Donoghue)
  • Feminist Legal Biography (with Rosemary Auchmuty)
  • Feminist Methodologies (with Ellie Whittingdale)
  • ‘How Many More Women?’ and Feminist Socio-Legal Research (with Keina Yoshida)
  • Decolonising Research Questions (with Sarah Radcliffe)
  • The Price of Positionality (with Mark Massoud)
  • Insider Research (with Roxana Willis)
  • Feminist Oral History and Life Stories as a Radical Methodology (with Ellie Whittingdale, Marie Burton & Anna Cole)  
  • Queer Legal Geographies (withKay Lalor)

7. Visual, Spatial, and Performative Methods

• • Researching Law’s Visual Culture (with Leslie Moran)
  • Legal Geography (with Alex Jeffrey)
  • Law and Performance (with Kate Leader)
  • Understanding Law through Objects (with Jessie Hohmann)
  • The Role of Theatre in Invoking Radical Empathy (with Mark Phelan) 
  • Queer Legal Geographies (withKay Lalor)

8. Doing Qualitative Research in Challenging Environments

• • Doing Research in a Developing Country (with Gita Gill)
  • Doing Research with Intellectually Disabled Research Participants (with Rosie Harding)
  • Gaining the Trust of Closed Communities (with Florian Grisel)
  • Emotional labour in fieldwork research (with Marie Burton)
  • Vicarious trauma in research (with Shona Minson)

 

QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES

• Archiving and Working with Secondary Datasets (with Herbert Kritzer)
• Experiments and Randomised Controlled Trials (with Meredith Rossner)
• Surveys (with Pascoe Pleasence)
• Linking Administrative Data and Surveys (with Ben Edwards, part of a podcast series with ANU)
• Public Opinion Surveys (with Nicholas Biddle, part of a podcast series with ANU)  
• Mixed Methods Evaluation Research (with Lorana Bartels, part of a podcast series with ANU)  
• Retrospective Method (with Aino Suomi part of a podcast series with ANU)