Dr Scarlet Wilcock

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.