Social research methods, particularly qualitative research and ethnographic methods: to give a richer understanding of the experience of, and interactions with, the justice system; advances in ‘big qual’ methodology; quantitative social research methods such as sequence and cluster analysis.

Background

We want to build our internal capability to apply cutting-edge analytical and research methodologies. We are keen to engage with researchers across a range of disciplines, to explore how innovative methods could be applied to justice research.

Next steps

We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Areas of research interest

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