What PULS will do | Fieldwork is now complete
The PULS provides new ways to capture and understand people’s experience of and response to justiciable issues.
The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) has reached a major milestone with our fieldwork recently wrapping up. The PULS is ground-breaking research to help us better understand legal capability, attitudes and experience of the law in the Victorian community.
We have now interviewed 6,000 Victorians, exploring how they experience, understand and navigate the law and everyday life problems.
We are now moving to the next stage of research - analysing the data and then releasing our findings. We anticipate the first of our PULS reports to be available later in the year.
We also have a new video available outlining what the PULS will enable us to do. The short video explains how the PULS provides new ways to capture and understand people’s experience of and response to justiciable issues.
We are excited to get into the data and look forward to sharing PULS findings with others as we explore the issues and circumstances that contribute to legal need.
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Dr. Hugh McDonald reflects on the 2024 International Access to Justice Forum, exploring the global and local intersections of capability, need and person-centred justice.
As we celebrate the release of the third volume of the Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS), we reflect on the journey and the exciting opportunities for legal research ahead.
We are delighted to announce Dr McDonald will lead our research team and guide the next phase of research at VLF.
A New Perspective on Legal Need and Legal Capability is now available
The third report from the Public Understanding of Law Survey explores how attitudes, skills and confidence matter in satisfactorily resolving justiciable issues.