In the field

I am a social scientist and an ethnographer. My work explores information security needs, perspectives and practices among groups of people living and working at the margins of societies and in higher-risk settings. It focuses on how technology, as it is shaped by social structures, relations and interactions, facilitates multiple - individual and collective - security experiences and understandings. My work is thus grounded in research with and within distinct groups of people, engaging the often hidden, unvoiced and/or at-risk groups not generally considered in the design of security technologies. Most recently, I have worked with seafarers, refugees, migrants and protesters.

Before becoming a Lecturer and now Professor in the Information Security Group, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography and Department of Law and Criminology, also at Royal Holloway, University of London. I obtained my PhD from the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), after having completed an MA in International Journalism. Both at the University of Westminster. I also have a BA in Drama and Performance Studies from Aberystwyth University.