Empirical Research Methods Conference 2024

Empirical Research Methods in Advancing Legal Knowledge Conference 2024

Northumbria Law School invites registration for this free one-day event generously funded by the Society of Legal Scholars Events Fund.

Empirical methods are a growing feature of legal research today and this event will explore the dynamic and multifarious ways empirical research can be harnessed across and beyond the legal discipline.

This event will be held at Northumbria Law School and lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please register your intention to attend by the 16th of September.

Programme

09.30-10.00   Registration 

10.00– 10.15  Welcome from Northumbria University’s Faculty of Business and Law 

10.15-11.00  Keynote 1: Professor Caroline Derry, The Open University: Magpie Methodologies: lore, law, and shiny things 

11.00-11.15  BREAK 

11.15-12.30  Paper Session 1: Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Legal and Social Research 

Why I Am Not Including Children In My Research: The Participation Of Children & Young People In Criminal Justice Research - Aine Manion (University College Cork) 

Reflections on Empirical Research in Delhi - Mini Saxena (SOAS) 

Autoethnography and legal research: possibilities and perils - Dr Elaine Gregerson (Northumbria University) 

12.30-1.15  LUNCH 

1.15-2.30  Keynote 2: Professor Jose Pina-Sanchez, University of Leeds. "The Need for an Empirical Revolution in Criminal Justice Research: Examples from Research on Sentencing Disparities" 

2.30-2.45  BREAK 

2.45-3.30  Paper Session 2: Innovative Methodologies and Empirical Approaches in Legal Research 

Project FORTITUDE - Game-Based Learning, Professor Dawn Watkins and Dr Ann George (University of Sheffield) 

Corpus Linguistics in Empirical Legal Research, Lauren Devine and Stephen Parker (Lancaster University) 

Judicial Perspectives in Doctrinal Scholarship, Dr Charlotte Ellis (University of York) 

3.30- 4.45  Roundtable Discussion 

4.45 – 5.00  Closing remarks 

Register below for this free event.