School of Social Science

Dr Lyndal Sleep

Affiliate Researcher
ADM+S Centre
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Dr Lyndal Sleep is a Senior Lecturer (Domestic and Family Violence) in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Sciences at the Central Queensland University. 

ADM+S Centre biography

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Researcher biography

Dr Lyndal Sleep' s research focuses on social security decision making, technology and women with the aim of enhancing safety, wellbeing and life chances for women in situations of intersectional disadvantage. Lyndal has also tracked technological changes in social security decision making and surveillance. Her current independent research focuses on detailing systems abuse in automated decision making in contexts of domestic violence.

Lyndal's academic background spans science and society, sociology, social work and law. Post PhD Lyndal has been Chief Investigator on a number of research projects, including the ANROWS funded project Domestic Violence, Social Security Law and the Couple Rule. She has published in national and international journals, and is co-editor of the Journal of Social Inclusion.

Lyndal joined the ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in February 2021. Based at the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, she will be contributing to the Machines program through two projects:

· Mapping ADM machines in Australia and the Asia-Pacific; and

· Building Ethical Machines in Social Services: Examining, Evaluating, Building Fairness and Explainability in ADM.

Publications

Journal Articles (16)
Seminar Paper (1)
Working Paper (1)
Newspaper Article (1)
Research Reports (3)

Journal Articles

Sleep, Lyndal Naomi (2022). From making automated decision making visible to mapping the unknowable human: counter-mapping automated decision making in social services in Australia. Qualitative Inquiry, 28 (7), 107780042210968-858. doi: 10.1177/10778004221096853
Sleep, Lyndal (2022). Female dependents, individual customers and promiscuous digital personas: the multiple governing of women through the Australian social security couple rule. Critical Social Policy, 43 (2), 026101832210892-213. doi: 10.1177/02610183221089265
Sleep, Lyndal and Ngendakurio, John Bosco (2022). “Throw your arms around me”: Explorations of the importance of social connectively to people’s wellbeing. Journal of Social Inclusion, 13 (2). doi: 10.36251/josi301
Sleep, Lyndal and Harris, Paul (2021). Lockdowns, exclusion and resilience: our first pandemic related studies. Journal of Social Inclusion, 12 (1), 1-3. doi: 10.36251/josi.230
Harris, Paul and Sleep, Lyndal (2021). The importance of digital inclusion in accessing care and support in our increasingly digitised world: Editorial. Journal of Social Inclusion, 12 (2), 1-2. doi: 10.36251/josi.252
Harris, Paul, Barry, Margarete, Sleep, Lyndal, Griffiths, Jessica and Briggs, Lynne (2020). Integrating recovery-oriented and realistic evaluation principles into an evaluation of a Partners in Recovery programme. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 20 (3), 140-156. doi: 10.1177/1035719x20944010
Sleep, Lyndal and Sawrikar, Pooja (2020). Challenges and change: Oxygen for change towards social inclusiveness?. Journal of Social Inclusion, 11 (2), 1-3. doi: 10.36251/josi.210
Sleep, Lyndal and Gras Diaz, Luisa (2020). When transparency can be deadly: reporting of identifiable and locatable personal information in administrative appeal tribunal couple rule decisions that involve domestic violence. Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity, 8 (1), 11-27.
Sleep, Lyndal (2019). Entrapment and institutional collusion: domestic violence police reports and the 'couple rule' in social security law. Alternative Law Journal, 44 (1), 17-22. doi: 10.1177/1037969x18796900
Sleep, Lyndal and Sowey, Helen (2019). The 'couple rule' and domestic violence . Social Security Rights Review .
Sleep, Lyndal and Tranter, Kieran (2018). Social media in social security decision making in Australia: an archive of truth?. Media Arts and Law Review, 22 (4), 442-463.
Sleep, Lyndal and Tranter, Kieran (2017). The visiocracy of the social security mobile app in Australia. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 30 (3), 495-514. doi: 10.1007/s11196-016-9498-1
Kieran, Tranter, Lyndal, Sleep and John, Stannard (2008). The cohabitation rule: indeterminacy and oppression in australian social security law. Melbourne University Law Review, 32 (2), 698-738.
Tranter, Kieran, Sleep, Lyndal and Stannard, John (2007). After Pelka: marriage-like relationships under social security law. Alternative Law Journal, 32 (4), 208-212. doi: 10.1177/1037969x0703200404
Sleep, Lyndal , Tranter, Kieran and Stannard, John (2006). Cohabitation rule in social security law: the more things change the more they stay the same. Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 13 (3), 135-146.
Sleep, Lyndal (2002). Pulling up their breaches: an analysis of Centrelink breach numbers and formal appeal rates?. Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 6 (2), 68-87.

Seminar Paper

Henman, Paul, Fay, Suzanna, Sleep, Lyndal, Gillingham, Philip and Maitra, Suvradip (2023). Trauma-informed AI: developing and testing a practical AI audit framework for use in social services​. University of Notre Dame, University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario, University of Baltimore, IBM Tech Ethics Lab.

Working Paper

Sleep, Lyndal and Henman, Paul (2022). ADM in child and family services: mapping what is happening and what we know. ADM+S Working Paper Series 2022. 002. ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Sleep, L. and Henman, P. (2022) ADM in child and family services: Mapping what is happening and what we know, ADM+S Working Paper Series 2022 (002), ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, DOI: 10.25916/n86m-km33. doi: 10.25916/n86m-km33

Newspaper Article

Sleep, Lyndal (2019, 07 19). Domestic abuse or genuine relationship? Our welfare system can’t tell The Conversation

Research Reports

Henman, Paul, Thomas, Julian, Soldatic, Karen, Goldenfein, Jake, Weatherall, Kimberlee, Sleep, Lyndal, Carney, Terry, Chand, Kunal, Khan, Awais Hameed, Wilcock, Scarlet, Livingstone, Stephanie and Matulionyte, Rita (2023). Submission by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S). Brisbane, QLD Australia: Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme.
Coco, Brooke, Harpur, Paul, Henman, Paul, Obeid, Abdul, Radke, Amelia, Scully, Jackie Leach, Sleep, Lyndal, Snoswell, Aaron, Soldatic, Karen and van Toorn, Georgia (2021). ADM+S submission to report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities on Artificial Intelligence and the rights of persons with disabilities. Geneva, Switzerland: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights .
Sleep, Lyndal (2019). Domestic violence, social security law and the couple rule. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety.