A just state for everyone? Researching access to administrative justice in the digital era Julia Dahlvik

In this episode I have the pleasure of introducing to you two sociologists who live and work in the Caribbean and whom I had the great pleasure to meet during my field research stay in the beginning of 2024. Elly Helings in Curaçao and Raymond Jessurun in Sint Maarten will share with us their perspectives on the digitalization of public services in these two islands, which are both officially autonomous since 2010 but are still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. We will discuss some comm...

In this episode I share with you some insights from my case studies in Canada, concretely in the Northwest Territories and Quebec. I focus on some of the challenges that Indigenous people are confronted with in the context of public service provision and access and more generally the complex relation of Indigenous peoples and the different orders of government. See more on the project: https://www.fh-campuswien.ac.at/en/forschung/projekte-und-aktivitaeten/digital-public-services-and-ombu...

In this edpisode I’ll first talk a little about my current issues in methodology and data collection, and then discuss some preliminary findings from the first case study which was in Quebec, the French speaking province of Canada. I talked to staff of the public ombuds institution, to citizens as well as to NGO and government representatives to get an in-depth understanding of the current situation on the challenges of access to and provision of public service. See more on the project: ...

In this episode I will explain the research design and methodology for this project, which will build primarily on interviews and participatory observation. I will talk about case study selection, my comparative approach, the particularities of doing research in public bodies, and the challenges of gaining access to the research field; that is, first of all access to public ombuds institutions in countries of both the Global South and the Global North, but then also to citizens in the respect...

Welcome to the first episode of this podcast about my research project which started in February 2023. In this introductory episode I will explain my research interest and approach. The study focuses on the digital transformation of public services and two major interlinked challenges that come along with this development: the risk of social groups being excluded from these services (digital inequality) and, as a result, restricted access to justice, which is in itself a fundamental right tha...