A practical guide to writing think-pieces, discussion papers, policy briefs, and submissions
This Justice Methods paper offers a guide to writing think-pieces, discussion papers, policy briefs, and submissions for policy, legal, or social issues.
Tag: Methodology
Qualitative research: Methods for understanding justice issues
This Justice Methods paper explores how qualitative research helps us understand the “how” and “why” behind people’s experiences of justice. It shows how these methods reveal complex issues, amplify underrepresented...
Submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission – June 2023
The Foundation’s submission to the National Children Commissioner’s consultation on youth justice and child wellbeing reform.
Conducting legal need surveys in the Australian context: challenges and options, Justice issues paper 31
Australia's first legal needs survey, the LAW Survey, was conducted in 2008. Much has changed in the last ten years, including major population growth and a digital transformation in service...
What works? Learning from the literature, Justice issues paper 19
A sensible first step in seeking to understand what works is to identify lessons learned from past experience and research. Yet, faced with a proliferation of articles, research, evaluation reports...
Effectiveness of public legal assistance services: a discussion paper, Justice issues paper 16
This paper contends that, in the context of evaluating legal assistance services, effectiveness refers to a causal link between an activity and an outcome. Accordingly, it is only through research...