I am Senior Lecturer in Data and Society in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. My research and teaching interests focus on open and administrative data, automated welfare, activists’ data practices, digital civil society, social justice and the city and cultural mapping. I use mostly qualitative methods of participant observation, interviews, and participatory mapping, drawing from the fields of STS, information studies, and critical data studies. I run the Culture & Communities Mapping Project and co-lead the Critical Data Studies Cluster at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
I earned a Ph.D. in Information Studies from University of California, Los Angeles, in 2017. I have a MLIS from the University of California, Los Angeles (2016) and a Masters in New Media from the University of Amsterdam (2010).
