Fairer Societies

Discover how interviews, surveys, archival research, mapping and other methods are used to explore inequality, justice, welfare and lived experience.

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Research into inequality, justice and welfare draws on methods that bring different kinds of evidence and experience together. Interviews, surveys, archival research, mapping and site visits can reveal how systems and institutions affect people’s lives, combining individual perspectives with wider social, historical and spatial patterns.

Dr Diana Batchelor

Dr Diana Batchelor discusses how combining interviews and quantitative data can build a richer understanding of victims’ experiences of justice.

Dr Henriette Louwerse

Dr Henriette Louwerse discusses how translation, archival research and collaboration with artists and communities can bring different forms of cultural knowledge into conversation.

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