Dr Emma Buxton-Namisnyk

Dr Emma Buxton-Namisnyk is a Senior Lecturer working on unceded Bedegal land at the School of Law, Society and Criminology in the UNSW Faculty of Law. She is currently the Director of the Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNSW. She completed her DPhil as a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford in 2022. Emma undertakes research at the intersection of law and criminology, with a particular emphasis on domestic and family violence responses (including policing, specialist responses and policy (particularly related to risk assessment and management)), First Nations justice, constructions of state responsibility related to gender-based violence, and intersecting rights. She is a respected leader in her area of expertise and is currently leading numerous funded research projects (see Grants). She teaches in areas including criminal law and policy and state crime and human rights. Emma is passionate about translating research into action and regularly works in partnership with advocacy and community-controlled organisations to support funding and evaluation activities. 

Before commencing at the UNSW Faculty of Law, Emma worked extensively in the fields of domestic violence death review, coronial law and First Nations justice. Emma worked in the Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor Indigenous UNSW from 2020-2021 and was a Senior Research Associate at the Indigenous Law Centre. Before this, she was the inaugural Research Analyst on the NSW Domestic Violence Death Review Team from 2012-2021 and seconded as a senior researcher on the Family is Culture Review into Aboriginal Children in Out-of-Home Care from 2018-2019. Emma has also worked as a tipstaff to the Honourable Justice Sackville AO QC at the NSW Court of Appeal, as an associate at Baker & McKenzie Sydney and as an international clerk in Bangkok.