Research Interests
My background is in computer science, but I'm pretty interdisciplinary and happy to read from any area if it's relevant to what I'm interested in. My current work broadly falls under the social sciences, in particular behavioural science. Some of the topics that I'm interested in include:
- Privacy decision making for digital health data
- Privacy for digital traces/digital footprints data
- Privacy for digital health data
- Inferences that can be made from data
- How people understand online privacy
- Factors affecting privacy attitudes and behaviours
I'm a mixed methods researcher and have experience working with both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Affiliations
An interdisciplinary lab based in the School of Management at the University of Bath, researching digital behaviours in a wide variety of contexts.
An EPSRC-funded PhD program situated across the University of Bath and the University of Bristol, focused on tackling issues of trust, identity, privacy and security in large-scale infrastructures.
Education
2020 - 2023 | University of Bath
PhD: Improving User Privacy in Mobile and Ubiquitous Health Technologies
Supervised by Professor David Ellis and Professor Julie Barnett
At a broad level, my research is investigating how people make privacy decisions when it comes to their digital health data. You can check out my Research page if you want to read more about my PhD topic.
The PhD program also included a taught year at the University of Bristol (2019 - 2020), with modules including:
- Fundamentals of cyber security
- Responsible innovation
- Socio-technical infrastructures
2015 - 2019 | University of Leicester
MComp Computer Science, 2:1
Integrated Master's degree studying topics including:
- Java and Python programming
- Predictive analytics for big data
- Cryptography
- Algorithms for bioinformatics
- Undergraduate: Cryptanalysis Tool for Classical Ciphers (supervised by Dr. Yi Hong)
- Master's: Web-based Affective Task Management System (supervised by Dr. Genovefa Kefalidou)
Experience
Ongoing | Research Associate
2019 | Lead Instructor
Code First Girls Web Development Course (University of Leicester)
2018 - 2019 | President
University of Leicester Computing Society
2018 - 2019 | Committee Member and Student Liaison
Athena Swan Team, University of Leicester Informatics Department