Dr. Carolyn McKay

Senior Research Fellow, Co-Director Sydney Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney Law School, Australia

Dr Carolyn McKay is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School where she teaches Criminal Law, Civil & Criminal Procedure and Digital Criminology. She is Co-Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology. Carolyn is recognised for her research into technologies in justice, specifically her empirical research into prisoners’ experiences of accessing justice from a custodial situation by audio visual links, published in her monograph, ‘The Pixelated Prisoner: Prison video links, court ‘appearance’ and the justice matrix’ (2018) Routledge. During the period July 2021 - June 2024, Carolyn is undertaking her ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) 'The Digital Criminal Justice Project: Vulnerability and the Digital Subject' DE210100586, focusing on digitalised justice and digital vulnerability. Carolyn serves on the NSW Bar Association's Media Information Law & Technology Committee and served on the 2019 NSW Law Society Legal Technologies Committee. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford 2019 and for 3 months at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain 2013-14. Carolyn has previously consulted on anti-dumping trade disputes and indirect taxation, working in both Sydney and Tokyo.