Education
Birkbeck College, University of London PhD Digital Cultures and Communications [ongoing]; CHASE studentship recipient; supervisors Dr Robert Topinka and Dr Scott Rodgers
University of Glasgow MSc Digital Society, Merit [2024]
University of Sheffield BA English Language and Sociology, 2:1 [2020]
Research Experience
University of Glasgow Media, Culture and Society Group- Research Associate
- Focus group participant recruitment.
- Co-creation of a coding framework and thematic coding of large focus group transcripts and an adjoining written report of findings.
- Reporting to a varied team of researchers.
Low-emissions, High Tensions: Social Media Groups and the Escalation of Climate Obstruction – Research Assistant for Dr Lluis de Nadal, University of Glasgow
- Co-creation of coding framework for content analysis of digital data using NVivo,
- Conducted thematic coding of a large amount of multi-modal digital data
- Findings will inform strategies to counter misinformation and support outreach efforts with targeted, values-based and culturally sensitive communication.
Queer Digital Lives: Intersections of surveillance, datafication, and community resilience in the Glasgow LGBTQ+ community- Research Associate with Dr Elisabetta Ferrari
- Participatory Action Research focused on exploring how queerness intersects with systems of power, datafication, and surveillance.
- Recruitment and facilitation of focus groups utilising Visual Focus Group elicitation and reflexivity activities.
- Intended outputs are both academic (AoIR conference presentations and journal articles) and accessible (zine incorporating strategies and knowledge from participants on digital privacy).
Re-Weirding the Archive: How digital folklorists use archives to build new narratives of cultural heritage, University of Glasgow
- Digital ethnography of an online community. Data yielded from interviews with community curators and thematic analysis of digital materials.
- Use of Microsoft Excel and NVivo for data analysis.
- Outputs include a written report of findings for partial fulfillment of my MSc, conference presentations, and a written zine stocked in multiple libraries.
Perceptual Dialectology Archiving – Research Assistant for Dr Chris Montgomery, University of Sheffield
- Processing, codifying, and transcribing sets of archival audio interviews.
- Use of ELAN linguistic software, fluency in International Phonetic Alphabet.
Conference Papers:
‘Queer Digital Lives: Understanding datafication through creative collaborative approaches‘- CHASE Gender and Sexuality in Times of Crisis [2026]
‘Creative Methods: Data Dioramas Workshop – Information Lives in DIY Cultures Conference’; Manchester Metropolitan University [2025]
‘Re-Weirding the Archive: How digital folklorists create new heritage narratives‘- Dark Economies: Haunted Modernities, Presents, Pasts and Spectral Futures; University of Falmouth [2025]
‘Queer Digital Lives: Understanding datafication through creative collaborative approaches‘- Association of Internet Researchers Conference; University of Sheffield [2024]
Publications:
‘Queer Digital Lives: Understanding datafication through creative collaborative approaches’; Journal article [work in progress]
Research Networks/Associations:
- Member of the Association of Internet Researchers [AoIR]
- CHASE Digital Studies Collective [DiSCO]
Other relevant experience
- Front of House Secretary, Site Gallery Sheffield
- Contributing writer, The Forge Press, Sheffield
- Trade Union’s Congress, Conference Assistant
- The Woodcraft Folk, Youth Group Leader
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