Nicola Taylor

Nicola Taylor
Academic background
Alma materWaitaki Girls' High School, University of Otago
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago

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.[1][2] 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.[3][4]

Taylor is a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, and an accredited family mediator.[1] She joined the faculty of the University of Otago, rising to associate professor in 2012,[5] and full professor in 2021.[4] Taylor holds the Alexander McMillan Leading Thinker Chair in Childhood Studies,[1] and is the director of the Children's Issues Centre within the Otago Faculty of Law.[1]

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.[4] 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.[6][7] 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.[7][8][6]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Nicola Taylor (Q104139681).
  • Mary Ann Powell; Anne Graham; Antonia Canosa; Donnah Anderson; Tim Moore; Sally Robinson; Nigel P. Thomas; Nicola Taylor (22 March 2020). "Child safety in policy: Who is being kept safe and from what?". Social Policy and Administration. 54 (7): 1160–1178. doi:10.1111/SPOL.12591. ISSN 0144-5596. Wikidata Q105070719.
  • Marilyn Freeman; Nicola Taylor (2 April 2020). "Domestic violence and child participation: contemporary challenges for the 1980 hague child abduction convention". Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 42 (2): 154–175. doi:10.1080/09649069.2020.1751938. ISSN 0964-9069. Wikidata Q105070720.
  • Reremoana Theodore; Karen Tustin; Jesse Kokaua; Megan Gollop; Cynthia Kiro; Nicola Taylor; Richie Poulton (25 September 2019). "Occupations and industries of employment of Māori university graduates: early career aspirations and destinations". Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal Of Social Sciences Online. 15 (1): 140–153. doi:10.1080/1177083X.2019.1669671. ISSN 1177-083X. Wikidata Q105070721.
  • Anne Briar Riddall; Nicola J. Taylor (28 February 2017), Children’s Rights in Early Childhood Education, Oxford Bibliographies, doi:10.1093/OBO/9780199756810-0178, Wikidata Q105070722
  • Megan Gollop; Nicola Taylor (8 March 2012), "New Zealand Children and Young People's Perspectives on Relocation Following Parental Separation", Law and Childhood Studies: Current Legal Issues Volume 14 Law and Childhood Studies: Current Legal Issues Volume 14, pp. 219–242, doi:10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199652501.003.0015, Wikidata Q105070724
  • Anne Graham; Antonia Canosa; Tess Boyle; Tim Moore; Nicola Taylor; Donnah L Anderson; Sally Robinson (30 August 2022). "Promoting students' safety and wellbeing: ethical practice in schools". Australian Educational Researcher. doi:10.1007/S13384-022-00567-8. ISSN 0311-6999. Wikidata Q113899245.
  • Nicola Taylor; Anne Briar Riddall (2015), "Thinking About Children: How Does It Influence Policy and Practice?", Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, pp. 49–62, doi:10.1007/978-981-4451-15-4_53, Wikidata Q105070723

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Professor Nicola Taylor". University of Otago. 16 November 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Graduate search". University of Otago. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  3. ^ Taylor, Nicola J. Care of children : families, dispute resolution and the Family Court (PhD thesis). University of Otago. hdl:10523/153.
  4. ^ a b c "Otago announces 26 new professors". University of Otago. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  5. ^ Gibb, John (4 January 2012). "Professorships for 14 university academics showing 'excellence'". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Otago research finds family justice system needs to incorporate children's voices". New Zealand Law Foundation. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  7. ^ a b Gibb, John (6 August 2020). "More weight needed for children's voices". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  8. ^ "Family Justice reforms experts announced". www.beehive.govt.nz. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  • Family law matters, Inaugural professorial lecture by Nicola Taylor, 9 May 2023, via YouTube