Svetlana Tyulkina joined UNSW Law in 2011 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship: Anti-Terror Laws and the Democratic Challenge Project in the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law.

Prior to joining the UNSW Faculty of Law Svetlana Tyulkina was a PhD student at the Central European University, where she has completed the doctoral thesis entitled "Militant Democracy".