Nicola Taylor
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Nicola Joy Taylor is a New Zealand academic, and a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. She is a full professor at the University of Otago, holding the Alexander McMillan Leading Thinkers Chair in Childhood Studies, where she researches child and family law.
Academic career
Taylor earned a Bachelor of Social Work degree with honours from Massey University, and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree with first-class honours from the University of Otago in 1998.{{Cite web |date=2022-11-16 |title=Professor Nicola Taylor |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/cic/staff/professor-nicola-taylor |access-date=2024-03-07 |publisher=University of Otago}}{{cite web |url=https://sits.otago.ac.nz/sitsvision/wrd/siw_ipp_lgn.login?process=siw_ipp_enq&code1=GRADSEARCH |title=Graduate search |publisher=University of Otago |access-date=8 March 2024}} From 2001, she undertook doctoral research at the University of Otago's Children's Issues Centre, supervised by Anne Smith and Mark Henaghan, with her 2006 PhD thesis titled Care of children: families, dispute resolution and the Family Court at the University of Otago.{{Cite thesis|url=https://hdl.handle.net/10523/153|last=Taylor|first=Nicola J.|title=Care of children : families, dispute resolution and the Family Court |type=PhD thesis|publisher=University of Otago|hdl=10523/153 }}
Taylor is a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, and an accredited family mediator. She joined the faculty of the University of Otago, rising to associate professor in 2012,{{Cite news |last=Gibb |first=John |date=2012-01-04 |title=Professorships for 14 university academics showing 'excellence' |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/campus/university-of-otago/professorships-14-university-academics-showing-excellence |access-date=2024-03-07 |work=Otago Daily Times}} and full professor in 2021.{{Cite web |date=2020-12-08 |title=Otago announces 26 new professors |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagobulletin/news/otago-announces-26-new-professors |access-date=2024-03-07 |publisher=University of Otago}} Taylor holds the Alexander McMillan Leading Thinker Chair in Childhood Studies, and is the director of the Children's Issues Centre within the Otago Faculty of Law.
Taylor's research on socio-legal matters covers child and family law. She is interested in topics such as post-separation care arrangements, relationship property division, international child abduction, and family dispute resolution. She was funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation to assess the family law reforms of 2014. The reforms focused on moving work into out-of-court processes. The research showed "high levels of dissatisfaction" with the reforms amongst professionals, and that parents and caregivers wanted greater account taken of children's wishes.{{Cite web |title=Otago research finds family justice system needs to incorporate children's voices |publisher=New Zealand Law Foundation |url=https://www.lawfoundation.org.nz/?p=11373 |access-date=2024-03-07}}{{Cite news |last=Gibb |first=John |date=6 August 2020 |title=More weight needed for children's voices |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/more-weight-needed-children%E2%80%99s-voices |access-date=2024-03-07 |work=Otago Daily Times}} Taylor was appointed to the Expert Reference Group formed in 2018 to assessing the reforms, and her research findings contributed to Andrew Little's 2020 Family Court Legislation Bill.{{Cite web |title=Family Justice reforms experts announced |url=https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/family-justice-reforms-experts-announced |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=www.beehive.govt.nz |language=en}}
Selected works
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- {{CiteQ|Q105070719}}
- {{CiteQ|Q105070720}}
- {{CiteQ|Q105070721}}
- {{CiteQ|Q105070722|series=Oxford Bibliographies}}
- {{CiteQ|Q105070724|work=
Law and Childhood Studies: Current Legal Issues Volume 14 Law and Childhood Studies: Current Legal Issues Volume 14 }}
- {{CiteQ|Q113899245}}
- {{CiteQ|Q105070723|work=Handbook of Children and Youth Studies }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pH_zS0djkU Family law matters], Inaugural professorial lecture by Nicola Taylor, 9 May 2023, via YouTube
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