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Associate Professor Rebecca Scott Bray is an academic in Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney, affiliated with the School of Social and Political Sciences. She previously directed the Sydney Institute of Criminology (2012–2016) and currently coordinates Undergraduate Criminology programs and Educational Integrity in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on death investigation, coronial law, medico-legal criminology, and socio-legal death studies, exploring intersections between crime, law, and culture involving the dead.
Her research expertise includes visual criminology, digital criminology, and critical criminology, with particular emphasis on coronial systems and death-related art/media. She has held visiting fellowships at Humboldt University (Germany), UNSW Law, and New York University. Key publications include Secrecy, Law and Society (2015) and works analyzing coronial justice in the digital age and contested death investigations.
Grants:
- 2018: Bereaved People's Experiences of the Coronial System in Victoria
- 2017: Critical Death Investigation: Learning from sudden death and disaster
- 2013: Network for Organs, Bodies and Tissues (NBOT)
Membership:
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
- Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand
- Sydney Institute of Criminology
