Tamara joined the Faculty of Law as Lecturer in 2014. Prior to this, Tamara was a PhD candidate and Nettheim Doctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of New South Wales, and a member of the ARC Laureate Fellowship project 'Anti-Terror Laws and the Democratic Challenge' in the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. Tamara has previously practiced as a solicitor at the Mental Health Advocacy Service at NSW Legal Aid and served as Associate to Chief Justice Higgins AO of the ACT Supreme Court.

Tamara's key research interests are: legal responses to terrorism, mental health law, prevention and criminal justice.

Tamara is currently working with Professor Harry Blagg on a CRC funded project Developing Diversionary Pathways for Indigenous Youth with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): A Three Community Study in Western Australia. This study will explore and map out diversionary alternatives and law reform options that will equip courts and multi-agency teams, partnered with community-owned and managed services, to construct alternative pathways into treatment and support. The research will be conducted in 3 locations in remote Western Australia: Broome, Derby and Fitzroy Crossing.

Tamara was awarded a 2014 PhD Excellence Award for her thesis, 'The Preventive State: Prevention and Pre-emption in Mental Health, High Risk Offender and Anti-Terror Laws'.