Mehera San Roque

Associate Professor Mehera San Roque is affiliated with the School of Law, Society & Criminology at UNSW, specializing in evidence law, feminist legal analysis, and law's intersection with surveillance, visual cultures, and sound. Her research includes an ARC-funded project on deaf jurors' participation and collaborations with linguists, legal aid, and interpreters. She is a member of the Evidence-Based Forensics Initiative and the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences Council.

Research Interests: Her work spans cross-disciplinary projects in forensic science, identification evidence reliability, and legal safeguards. Notable projects include improving jury accessibility for deaf citizens and analyzing facial recognition technology's role in criminal trials. She emphasizes ethical and equitable legal practices, particularly in cases involving marginalized groups.

Advising & Grants: Supervises research on juror decision-making biases and judicial social media impacts. Her ARC-funded work highlights collaborative approaches to legal challenges. Teaching includes courses on evidence law, criminal law, and forensic psychology.

Labs/Teams: Engaged with the Evidence-Based Forensics Initiative and interdisciplinary teams in law, psychology, and medicine to enhance evidence evaluation in trials.