Nicola Taylor
Nicola Tayor, member of Childwatch International Board
Dr Nicola Taylor is the Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Research on Children and Families (formerly the Children’s Issues Centre) at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She has a Bachelor of Social Work (Hons) degree and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree, and has been admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. Her PhD thesis explored family members’ experiences of Family Court dispute resolution processes in custody and access cases.
Nicola has worked at the Centre since its inception in 1995 and also has a part-appointment in the University’s Faculty of Law. She teaches in the Centre’s postgraduate diploma programme and supervises students enrolled in the Masters in Childhood and Youth Studies and PhD programme. Nicola has a particular interest in socio-legal research with children, parents and professionals.
She has been actively involved in Childwatch International since the Children’s Issues Centre hosted the Key Institutions Assembly in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1999. She also attended the 2005 (Norway) and 2009 (Ethiopia) Key Institutions Assemblies. Nicola chairs the Childwatch Thematic Group on Citizenship and Nation Building and was the lead editor of their book Children as Citizens? International Voices published in 2009. She also initiated and co-chairs the Children and the Law Thematic Group, and contributes to the Rural Childhood.
Nicola is married with three children – two sons (Lloyd and Alex) aged 21 and 18, and one daughter (Victoria) aged 14.
