Lyndal joined the QCFDVR in 2023, after two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Automated Decision Making and Society Centre of Excellence based at the University of Queensland School of Social Science. There she researched women, violence, and technology, aiming to improve the lives and life chances of women in situations of intersectional disadvantage by articulating gendered harms and amplifying women’s voices. Lyndal also works with advocacy groups to make concrete change in women’s lives through collaborative research. Her research has covered domestic violence and the couple rule in social security law, and domestic violence and Centrelink debt. Lyndal's current research includes the intersections between automated technologies, domestic violence, and systems abuse, including rethinking auditing automated systems with a trauma informed framework, as well as online gendered harms.

Lyndal's academic background spans social work, social science, sociology, technology and society studies, and law. Her PhD was on the lived experience of the couple rule in Australian social security law. Post PhD Lyndal has been Chief Investigator in a number of research projects, including the ANROWS funded project Domestic Violence, Social Security Law and the Couple Rule, and the current University of Notre Dame IBM Ethics Lab funded Trauma Informed AI: Developing and Testing a practical AI Trauma Informed Auditing Framework for use in the Social Services. Lyndal has published in leading national and international journals, including Qualitative Inquiry and Critical Social Policy.