Research Assistantships
Cardiff Law School provides an opportunity for some students to develop research skills by providing research assistance for academic staff, or working on their own projects alongside their studies.
Recently, five students were selected to work on a summer school project which focused on how the law operates to enforce or control contact between children and their parents after parental separation. The project aimed to gauge levels of public and professional support for changes to the law which were designed to enable courts to facilitate and enforce contact more effectively. In addition to gaining hands-on experience of the process of conducting research, these students also published the findings of their research in a popular family law journal.