I have started working as a Research Fellow with Professor Linda Mulcahy at the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies on an exciting new oral history research study.
This project aims to create an oral history of pioneering women lawyers which will be lodged in the sound archive of the British Library as a national resource. It aims to open up debate about the sort of work that qualifies as pioneering and to raise the profile of women whose contribution has been marginalized in public debate. We are particularly interested in the experiences of women from black, Asian and minority ethnic; and lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) groups; as well as from lower socio-economic backgrounds. The project will also focus on women lawyers who work outside of the commercial sector such as those engaged in advice work and poverty law where the celebration of achievements has been more muted than elsewhere. The research will be conducted in three stages: a survey of lawyers; life history interviews (lasting up to twelve hours) with up to 50 women in partnership with National Life Stories at the British Library, and the development of a project website. The initial stages of this project are being funded by the University of Oxford John Fell fund.
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