Talking about Methods

In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Lorana Bartels (ANU Centre for Social Policy Research and Methods) about using mixed methods in evaluation research.

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In this International Women's Day episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Anna Cole, Ellie Whittingdale and Dr Marie Burton about the potential of feminist oral history and life story interviews as a radical methodology.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Nicholas Biddle (Associate Director at the ANU Centre for Social Policy Research and Methods) about public opinion surveys.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Jessie Hohmann (Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney) about understanding law through the study of objects.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Kristin van Zwieten (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford) about the value and limits of doing doctrinal legal research, and how this 'internal' perspective and the 'external' perspective provided by other socio-legal methodological approaches can complement one another.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Shona Minson (Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford) about her experience with vicarious trauma in conducting research on sensitive and distressing topics.

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In the first episode, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Marie Burton (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford) about the emotional labour involved in working with vulnerable groups in legal practice and in conducting fieldwork research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Insa Koch (University of St. Gallen) about researching, and working with, communities over time.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy goes back to basics and chats to listeners about designing a socio-legal research project and choosing between qualitative and quantitative methodologies and methods.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Sally Reardon (University of the West of England Bristol) about court observation and reporting in journalism and in academic research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods—following our previous one on comparative socio-legal research—Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Matthew Dyson (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford) about doing comparative legal research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Ole Hammerslev (Sociology of Law Department, Lund University) and Professor Hilary Sommerlad (School of Law, Leeds University) about comparative socio-legal research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Kate Leader (York Law School, University of York) about law, theatre, and performance studies.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Alex Jeffrey (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) about doing legal geography.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Leslie Moran (School of Law, Birkbeck College) about researching the visual culture of law.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Sarah Radcliffe (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) about decolonising research questions.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Sally Sheldon (University of Bristol Law School) about doing a biography of a piece of legislation.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Mark Coen (School of Law, University College Dublin) about interviewing judges.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Mark Fathi Massoud (University of California, Santa Cruz) about positionality in Socio-Legal research. 

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Gita Gill (School of Law, Northumbria University) about her experience of doing fieldwork in India.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Agnieszka Kubal (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) about her experience of shadowing human rights lawyers in her research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Roxana Willis (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies; University of Oxford) about doing insider research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Herbert Kritzer (University of Minnesota Law School) about archiving and working with secondary datasets.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Robert Dingwall (School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University) about using observation in socio-legal research.

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In this International Women's Day 2022 special, Professor Linda Mulcahy speaks with Professor Rosemary Hunter (University of Kent), Professor Sharon Cowan (University of Edinburgh), and Professor Aoife O'Donoghue (University of Durham) about various feminist judgments projects in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern/Ireland.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Veronica Taylor (School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University) about elite interviewing.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Rosemary Auchmuty (School of Law, University of Reading) about feminist legal biography.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Rosie Harding (Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham) about doing research with intellectually disabled research participants.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Anna Tsalapatanis (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford) about ethics in socio-legal research and the danger of assuming that ethical issues have been addressed just because an application to your local ethics committee has been approved.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to DPhil student Ellie Whittingdale (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford) about feminist methodologies, and her upcoming paper for a special edition on methodology in the Journal of Law and Society.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Associate Professor Florian Grisel (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford) about mixed methods (archives and interview) which reveals important issues about gaining the trust of research subjects in closed communities.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Meredith Rossner (Australian National University) about using experiments and randomised controlled trials in socio-legal research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Marina Kurkchiyan (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford) about using focus groups in socio-legal research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Ellie Whittingdale talks to Professor Linda Mulcahy, Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies about the use of semi-structured interview as a method in socio-legal research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Anna Bryson from Queen’s University Belfast about the use of oral history as a method in socio-legal research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Fernanda Pirie (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford) about using ethnography in socio-legal research.

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Pascoe Pleasence (Faculty of Laws, University College London) about using surveys in socio-legal research.

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