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Work, Care and Welfare
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Improving Law and improving lives. Research closer to communities.
We bring law and social justice research closer to people’s hopes, interests and needs because research needs to inspire and inform meaningful improvements to law and to people’s lives.
Our social justice research is grounded in how the public creates, experiences and interacts with law. We work collaboratively across communities, organisations, cultural institutions and public life – because social justice is everyone’s business.
We develop and test new approaches, building an evidence base for stronger research practice that improves how law is made, used and understood.
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Priority Research Agendas 26/27
Public trust in public institutions has been damaged by a series of high-profile scandals in which mistakes were hidden. Truth was withheld from those affected and society at large. The forthcoming Hillsborough Law duty of candour opens up new opportunities for social justice research to build evidence from public experiences of injustice, strengthening accountability and building public trust.
Research in Practice
Test beds for developing, exploring and evidencing new approaches to social justice research.
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Implementing Hillsborough Law
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People’s White Paper
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Merlin Files – Nuclear Justice
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Theatre-informed policy making
What our research explores
Areas of life where law meets everyday realities. Our work is grounded in how law is shaped, experienced and understood across communities, organisations and public systems.
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Children and Childhood
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Corporations & Communities
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Violence & Conflict
Our approach
We take a distinct approach to social justice research and are embedding it through our growing community of practice.
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Empowerment
The Centre seeks to empower people and communities. Our work is inspired and informed by the lives of those directly impacted by the issues we are seeking to address.
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Care
Our work adopts a trauma-informed approach. We recognise that social injustice creates and perpetuates trauma at an individual, community, intergenerational and structural level.
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Trust
The Centre cultivates creative and multi-sectoral collaborations in recognition of the fact that everyone has their part to play in achieving social justice.
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Action
The Centre equips researchers with skills and knowledge to work alongside other sectors and disciplines to improve law in the pursuit of social change.
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Change
The Centre works alongside others to design and deliver research that can produce meaningful, positive change.
Free resources
Sharing our materials
So others can use and build on our work.
Candour & Communities
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