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
Dr Delfi Nieto-Isabel (Co-director) - Digital history and digital humanities
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
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
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
Dr Hao Ma - Deep learning, asset pricing, financial technologies
Dr Camille Terrier - Education, inequalities, algorithms, non-cognitive skills, teachers
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
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
Professor Chie Adachi - Digital education and pedagogy
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
Dr Haidar Hassan - 3D digital/medical/surgical simulation
Dr Pedro Elston - Augmented realities, AI, digital pedagogy
Dr Paula Vickerton - Education, anatomical education and VR use in anatomy education
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.