Rate My Professor Anna Bunn

Associate Professor Anna Bunn is a prominent legal scholar at Curtin Law School within the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University, where she currently serves as Dean of Learning and Teaching. In this leadership role, she drives educational innovation and oversees learning initiatives across the faculty. Previously, she held the position of Director of Learning and Teaching at Curtin Law School and progressed from Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor. Her academic qualifications include a PhD in Law, an MA from the University of Oxford, and a BA with Honours in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford. Bunn's career reflects a commitment to both teaching excellence and advancing legal scholarship in emerging technology domains.

Anna Bunn's research specializations encompass privacy law, tort law, legal and policy issues related to the digital child, and children's rights. She is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, collaborating on projects that enhance understanding of legal rights in technology use among educators and students. Her work examines the impact of technology on children's development, regulatory frameworks for children's data, and protections against privacy invasions. Key publications include 'Exploring researchers’ perspectives and experiences of digital childhoods research in schools' (2024), 'Assessing the privacy of digital products in Australian schools: Protecting the digital rights of children and young people' (2024), 'TOWARD A REVOLUTION IN AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S DATA AND PRIVACY' (2023), 'Manifesto for a Better Children’s Internet' (2023), '‘When Trust Fails Purpose: Legislative Lessons from Police Access to the SafeWA COVID-19 Contact Tracing Data’' (2023), 'Children and the ‘Right to be Forgotten’: what the right to erasure means for European children, and why Australian children should be afforded a similar right' (2019), 'Privacy Concerns and Acceptance of Government Surveillance in Australia' (2018), 'The curious case of the right to be forgotten' (2015), and 'Stress testing the banks: an examination of some of the legal issues relating to workplace stress and mental harm within the banking industry' with Robert Guthrie. Bunn has received the Curtin University Curtinnovation Business and Law Award, recognizing her contributions to innovation. She has influenced policy through submissions to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, cited in the 2021 Human Rights Council report on children’s privacy. Additionally, she contributes to public discourse via radio interviews, podcasts on children's online privacy, conference presentations including at the Australian Association for Research in Education, and serves on the editorial board of the Legal Education Review. Her involvement in projects such as the BARG student support chatbot underscores her impact on AI applications in legal education.