I think that one of the hardest things about writing a literature review is forgetting where I had read something and wasting what is probably hours skimming through papers to find what I am looking for. As someone who hates wasting time and has a compulsive need to organise things, I came up with an…
Category: PhD
Safer Internet Day 2018
February 6th 2018 was Safer Internet Day, an international landmark event on the Internet safety calendar. This year its theme was “create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you.” Since receiving the Internet Society’s 25U25 award last year, I felt really motivated to get other young people thinking about the Internet and…
Talking digital footprints with youth
Since being awarded as one of the Internet Society’s 25 Under 25 I have been quite busy with different requests and such like. I was invited to speak to some young people at a primary school about digital footprints and online safety. Talking about the Internet and its challenges is not something I am used…
Internet Society’s 25 Under 25 Awards!!
I have been keeping this under wraps for quite some time now, but I am super proud to announce that I am one of the Internet Society’s 25 Under 25 awardees for my contributions towards making the internet a safer, fairer place. I will be jetting off the Los Angeles for the celebrations in September…
Digital Mental Health 2017
I was in London this week attending the Innovation & Strategies for Digital Interventions in Mental Health conference that was organised by Dr Becky Inkster. The focus of the conference was to explore and be critical of how we engage with the digital to support mental health. My research does not specifically focus on mental health…
DE-Summer School Report
The Digital Economy Network (DEN) holds annual Summer Schools hosted by different Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) within the network. The aim of the Summer Schools is “to bring as many different Centres together at once, as well as to engage the wider Digital Economy PhD and researcher community,” [i]. In July I headed down…
Social Media Research Ethics
This week I attended an afternoon conference run by Chris Carter and Sarah Glozer entitled Social Media Research Insights (you can find some of the Twitter commentary at #SMRinsights). The reason why I attended is because my research is focused around social media platforms used by members of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease community. Using user-generated…
DEN Summer School 2017 – Extended
A couple of weeks ago I headed down to Loughborough University’s campus in London for the Digital Economy Network’s annual summer school. I was looking forward to spending a few days away with fellow PhD’ers and meeting new folks. This post will provide an overview and reflection of the week. It’s pretty long and I…
DEN Summer School 2017
I wrote a really long post about my reflections of the Summer School, but it’s not a quick read by any means so here’s a shorter version. I would like to imagine that people reading this are actually about to join the Horizon CDT and will be encouraged to go to the DEN Summer School…
Risk Emotions in Uncertain Times
I have been thinking about Maha’s emotive post [1] for a couple of days now. For my PhD I have been doing a lot of reading recently around risk (as a requisite of trust) and how it often manifests irrationally. As someone who is quintessentially white privilege, it should be easy for me to say…