What is Advocacy?

This episodes discusses what we mean by advocacy and how you can develop your skills. Our episode guests are Dr Audrey Cook and Theresa Lynch, both academics from The University of Birmingham. Both specialise in teaching advocacy to Law students in a variety of ways.  This episode explores what we mean by advocacy including the full range of formal court advocacy opportunities such as mooting and trial advocacy.  It also considers policy work, persuasion techniques and public speaking more widely. We always encourage listeners to undertake practical actions after listening to the episode. Go to court at your local court and watch advocates in action!  Get involved! Any public speaking situation you can do however small the step is worth giving a try. Useful resourcesSpeed mooting: https://speedmooting.com/