Conferences

I have presented papers at various national and international academic conferences including:

• 2021 – Leeds Digital Festival, Online

Member of a panel organised by the Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation (CDEI) on ‘Securing innovations through better data sharing’.

• 2021 – European Commission’s Smart Cities Marketplace Forum, Online

Presentationof key findings: Scottish Local Government during COVID-19: Data Needs, Capabilities, and Uses

• 2021 – Media Education Summit, University of Leeds

Paper: ‘Everyone knows the technique’: Tactical agency: young people’s (dis) engagement with digital platforms (as part of the panel will be convened by Internet Policy Review, on the theme of digital literacy).

• 2019 – Competences and Skills in the Governance of a Digitally Transformed Society Workshop, EU Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy)

Presentation: Data Awareness and Data Literacy: Young people’s tactical engagement with digital platforms

You can find the report of the workshop here and my presentation here.

• 2019 – The British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University

Paper: Prompting or checking? Repurposing Facebook Activity Logs and Search Histories in interview settings

Paper: A Time of One’s Own? Young people’s use of social media platforms in the context of neoliberal governmentality (with Dr Susan Batchelor, The University of Glasgow)

• 2017 – The British Sociological Association Annual Conference, The University of Manchester

Paper: Young People and Social Network Sites: Changing Perceptions of Scrutiny in the Personal and Professional Realms.

• 2016 – Third Forum of the International Sociological Association, The University of Vienna

Paper: Young People’s Understandings of Social Media: Changing Perceptions and Reflective Practices.

• 2016 – The 7th Biennial Surveillance & Society Conference, The University of Barcelona

Paper: Scrutiny and Surveillance on Social Media: Change or Continuity? Young Adults’ Perceptions and Practices.

• 2015 – The 5th Information Communication Technologies & Society Conference, Vienna University of Technology

Paper: Surveillance Enabling Technologies and Peer Scrutiny: Impacts on Young People’s Interpersonal Relationships.

• 2014 – Social Media Analysis: Methods and Ethics, The University of Glasgow

Paper: Enabling Surveillance: Young people’s Uses and Understandings of Mobile Technologies; Ethics and Methodological Issues