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Associate Professor, Information and Media Studies, Western University

My research combines my interests in datafication, politics, governance and social justice. I am co-director of the Data Justice Lab. I am currently working on projects that involve: a) mapping and analyzing the social and political implications of increasing government uses of predictive and automated data systems, b) learning from data harms and those trying to redress these harms and c) working toward greater citizen participation in our datafied societies.

I am co-author of Data Justice (Sage, 2022), the author of The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media and Politics (Lexington, 2014) and co-editor of Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data (Bloomsbury, 2015). I have published articles in academic journals such as Big Data & Society and popular sites like Scientific American. I have contributed chapters to various edited collections. My research has been funded by the Open Society Foundations, Carnegie UK Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre.

I have held fellowships at the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media, Toronto Metropolitan University and at the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre. Prior to joining Western I was a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University and before this an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. I have worked as a reporter, as well as a researcher in documentary television and in politics which also informs my research and writing.

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer, Critical Data Studies, Cardiff University

Education

  • 2011 
    Goldsmiths, University of London, PhD