Understanding PULS
The PULS is a first-of-its-kind in the world and represents a significant development in this kind of research.
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The Public Understanding of Law Survey explores how people experience, understand and navigate law and everyday life problems.

The Public Understanding of Law Survey explores how people experience, understand and navigate law and everyday life problems.
The Public Understanding of Law Survey has some familiar elements, but the combination of legal need and capability is the first of its kind.

The Public Understanding of Law Survey has some familiar elements, but the combination of legal need and capability is the first of its kind.
The Public Understanding of Law Survey will cover a range of everyday problems and the impact they can have on people’s lives.

The Public Understanding of Law Survey will cover a range of everyday problems and the impact they can have on people’s lives.
The Public Understanding of Law Survey provides sound evidence to help understand legal need and capability.

The Public Understanding of Law Survey provides sound evidence to help understand legal need and capability.
The Public Understanding of Law Survey is a face-to-face survey of 6,000 respondents across Victoria.

The Public Understanding of Law Survey is a face-to-face survey of 6,000 respondents across Victoria.
The PULS is a Victoria-wide survey to understand how people see, understand and engage with the law.

The PULS is a Victoria-wide survey to understand how people see, understand and engage with the law.
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Webinars, workshops, forums and public events to support engagement with the justice system.
Access the dataset and guidance on the best way to use the data.

Access the dataset and guidance on the best way to use the data.
As an expansive and rich dataset, we can focus on the needs and capability of specific groups and characteristics to learn more about the law in people's lives.

As an expansive and rich dataset, we can focus on the needs and capability of specific groups and characteristics to learn more about the law in people's lives.
Our legal capability measures that can be used to form policy insights is central to our research.

Our legal capability measures that can be used to form policy insights is central to our research.
Latest news
In our latest Research Network, First Step Legal’s Lisa Ward joined us to examine the intersection between health and law in an integrated and people-centred service.

As we celebrate the release of the third volume of the Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS), we reflect on the journey and the exciting opportunities for legal research ahead.

Five organisations will receive Grants to improve Victorians’ access to legal information and services.

The hidden legal crisis in rental housing
Join our next Research Network webinar to discuss the critical links between housing insecurity and legal need.