Researcher

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Law and society and socio-legal research, Welfare, insurance, disability and social security law, Criminal law, Technology, crime and surveillance, Sociology and social studies of science and technology

Biography

Dr Wilcock is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW's Faculty of Law & Justice and a an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She is a socio-legal researcher with expertise in the areas of social security law and policy and criminal law. 

Her research examines how social welfare institutions regulate and criminalise marginalised people and communities, particularly single mothers and people...view more

Dr Wilcock is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW's Faculty of Law & Justice and a an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She is a socio-legal researcher with expertise in the areas of social security law and policy and criminal law. 

Her research examines how social welfare institutions regulate and criminalise marginalised people and communities, particularly single mothers and people experiencing gendered violence. A core focus of her work is the relationship between new technologies and social services law, policy and administration. Drawing on critical approaches and empirical research methods, Dr Wilcock studies the ways that new technologies and systems can reinforce, shape and/or transform the architecture, aims and outcomes of welfare payment delivery and how these changes affect welfare recipients and public commitments to welfare provision. 


My Qualifications

  • PhD Law (UNSW, Sydney)
  • Grad Dip Legal Practice (College of Law, St Leonards)
  • Arts(Hons1)/Law(Hons1) (UNSW, Sydney)

My Awards

  • University of Wollongong Impact Makers' Award (2018)
  • UNSW Thesis Excellence Award (2017)
  • Australian Parliamentary Library Scholarship (2015)
  • Law Foundation Fieldwork Grant (2013)
  • Graham Pringle Prize for Politics and International Relations (2004) 

 


My Research Supervision


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Areas of supervision

I am  available to supervise Masters and PhD candidates in the following areas:

  • Social welfare / social security law, policy and administration
  • Processes of criminalisation especially the criminalisation of poverty
  • New technologies and automated decision making in the public sector
  • Foucault and governmentality

 

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Location

Room 376, Law Building, UNSW Kensington Campus

Contact

0405996544