Kyla Raby

Kyla Raby is a criminology and human rights scholar whose research focuses on modern slavery, human trafficking, forced marriage, and institutional responses to exploitation and harm. Her work sits at the intersection of criminology, law, public policy, and business, with particular attention to victimology, labour regulation, and the governance of global supply chains.

Kyla is completing her PhD at Adelaide University, where her research critically examines how modern slavery is problematised in Australian public policy, including the responsibility assigned to consumers and corporations under the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth). She also holds a Master of Public and International Law (Human Rights) from the University of Melbourne and degrees in Journalism and International Studies. She has taught across criminology, law, and business programs at several Australian universities and has extensive experience in course design and evaluation.

Alongside her academic work, Kyla has held senior humanitarian and policy roles with the British Red Cross and the Australian Red Cross, including leading Australia’s national Support for Trafficked People Program. She is an international aid worker and has been deployed as a Protection, Gender and Inclusion Delegate with the International Red Cross Movement to work in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, and as a Project Management Delegate to work in northern Greece. 

Kyla is the co-author of Modern Slavery in Australia (LexisNexis, 2024) and has published in peer-reviewed journals. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Justice, Policy and Practice at the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab and an active member of national and international modern slavery research networks.