CCCJ / Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice Seminar: 'Prison to court video links: pixelating the prisoner and procedural justice'

Speaker: Dr Carolyn McKay (Deputy Director, Sydney Institute of Criminology)

Dr Carolyn McKay is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney Law School. Her research examines the impacts of audio visual technologies (video links) on prisoners’ court appearance and access to justice. Carolyn’s research interests include technologies in justice, prisons and prisoners, visual criminology, surveillance, policing and interdisciplinary research methodologies. At Sydney Law School Carolyn teaches Criminal Law and Civil & Criminal Procedure. Over the years she has taught other courses including The Legal Profession, Legal Research, Research Methodologies and Professional Practice at the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle and Hunter Institute and acted as a research assistant on numerous projects and publications. In 2013, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain. Carolyn has previously consulted on anti-dumping trade disputes and indirect taxation in both Sydney and Tokyo and worked in digital media.

All welcome. A light lunch will be available from 1.15pm - if you could please let Sara crimrece@hermes.cam.ac.uk know (by 4th June) – whether or not you are coming we will be able to cater appropriately.