SCARLET WILCOCK
Dr Scarlet Wilcock is an Associate Investigator at the UNSW node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).
Scarlet is a critical socio-legal researcher based at the UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice. Her research examines the relationship between new technologies and social services law, policy and administration, particularly in the social security system. She uses critical approaches and empirical research methods to study the ways that new technologies 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.
A core focus of her work is on practices of policing social welfare fraud and non-compliance, which involves a range of algorithmic and automated technologies. She is the author of Policing Welfare Fraud, which interrogates the operation and effects of the suite of anti-fraud tools used within the Australia socials security system, including the infamous robodebt program and risk-based surveillance strategies.
