Hester Hockin-Boyers

Hester is an Assistant Professor at Durham University whose research broadly coheres around health and digital spaces, sociology of the body, and gender.

Hester's recently published work has covered topics such as; how exercise is constructed as 'normal' or 'pathological' in the context of eating disorder recovery, transformation photos on Instagram, and the interaction between women's mental health and social media use. She is currently working on a UKRI grant project to explore how diasporic identities shape online/offline health behaviours and values. The project also piloted a new digital methodology, developed by Hester, called ‘content elicitation’, which seeks to capture the fast, dynamic, mobile and everyday nature of interactions with digital content.