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Digital Lives Members List

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)

School of Geography

Professor Philippa Williams (Co-director 2022 - 2024)  - Politics of digital technology in India

Dr Kerry Holden - AI, East and Southern Africa, data infrastructures, labour, training and skills, techno-politics, sociotechnical imaginaries, race, class and gender

School of History

Dr Delfi Nieto-Isabel (Co-director) - Digital history and digital humanities

School of the Arts

Dr Cristina Moreno Almeida (Co-director) - Digital cultural studies; digital aesthetics, online ethnography, digital discourse analysis, data scraping and multimodal media 

Dr Agnieszka Lyons - Polymedia, multimodal mobile messaging, trans-local online/offline interplay

Archit Nanda (PhD student) - Hindi literature, video essays, modernism, translation, cinema production

Professor Nelya Koteyko - Digital interactions and disability, computer-mediate communication, climate activism on social media

Dr Xumeng Xie - Gender, sexuality and feminisms; digital media and cultures; digital ethnography

Dr Grazia Ingravalle - Digital turn

Dr Émilie Oléron Evans - Historiography of art; cultural translation and cultural transfers

Dr Merrilees Roberts - Pre-history of ethical issues relating to virtual reality and the digital representation of bodies in the nineteenth century

Professor Martin Welton - Senses, movement, emotions, atmosphere, performance, participation, hybrid realities

Lily Freeman-Jones (PhD Student) - Digital humanities

Professor Paul Heritage - Arts and health, cultural heritage, indigenous cultures and rights, climate crisis and cultural action, culture and migration, arts and social justice, culture and socio-economic development

Dr Tessa Whitehouse - Mapping, London, religious minorities, experience

School of Business and Management

Professor Yasmin Ibrahim - New media technologies and migration

Dr Panos Panagiotopoulos - Digital government; regulation and algorithms; data and AI skills; organisational readiness; capabilities and public value creation

Dr Sayed Elhoushy - Sustainability marketing; sustainable consumer behavior; technology adoption; AI applications in marketing

Dr Maria Adamson - Gender work inequalities, professional work, flexible work, hybrid and digitally enabled work, work-life balance, role models, women executives, cultural theory

Dr Jingjing Fu - Digital economy, digital labour, affective labour and the socio-cultural dimensions of user engagement with digital platforms

School of Law/ Centre for Commercial Law Studies 

Dr Daragh Murray - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human rights

Dr Gaetona Dimita - Games and interactive entertainment law

Professor Chris Reed - AI, cloud computing, theories of regulation in cyberspace, cross-border regulation of online activities, electronic signatures, online banking and financial services, and electronic commerce

Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche - AI and law

Dr Matthew Abbey - Migration, AI, surveillance, queer theory, environment

Dr Julia Hornle - Cyberspace law and digital rights, internet regulation, jurisdiction of states online and online dispute resolution

Professor Miriam Goldby - Governing the digital transformation of international trade; increasing resilience against cyber risk

 

 

 

 

School of Economics and Finance

Dr Hao Ma - Deep learning, asset pricing, financial technologies 

Dr Camille Terrier - Education, inequalities, algorithms, non-cognitive skills, teachers

School of Politics and International Relations

Dr Keren Weitzberg - Biometrics; digital identity; migration; borders; citizenship; degrowth; climate futures

Dr Elke Schwarz - Digital Technology, AI, ethics, political theory, transhumanism, military technology, philosophy of technology

Dr Holly Eva Ryan - Political expression, aesthetics and sensory politics, friendship, solidarity and social movements, legacies of indenture, Latin America and the Caribbean

Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI) 

Professor David Leslie - AI and ethics

Professor Gina Neff - Responsible AI

Professor Greg Slabaugh - Computer vision and deep learning, with applications to computational photography and medical image computing

Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FMD)

Professor Chie Adachi - Digital education and pedagogy

Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH) 

Dr Ana Rouskova - Digital Life: Impacts of Internet use on student engagement and wellbeing

Professor Ania Korzun - Predictors of psychosocial factors and wellbeing of cancer patients

Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science

Dr Haidar Hassan - 3D digital/medical/surgical simulation

Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE) 

Dr Pedro Elston - Augmented realities, AI, digital pedagogy

Dr Paula Vickerton - Education, anatomical education and VR use in anatomy education

Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE)

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

Dr Michaela Macdonald - Interactive Entertainment Law, AI, Robotics and the law, cybersecurity law and product development

Professor Pat Healey - Digital technologies for the study of human interaction

Dr Pedro Pereira Sarmento - music information retrieval, language models for music generation, guitar tablature generation, automatic guitar transcription, deep learning

The conveners welcome more members to join the Digital Lives Programme. If your research interests correspond with the aims of the programme, please get in touch with its co-directors directly.

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