Katherine Albury | Professor, Media and Communication
Swinburne University of Technology

Professor Kath Albury is an Associate Investigator in the Swinburne University of Technology node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). She also co-leads Swinburne Social Innovation Research Institute's Digital Economy & Society program, investigating the enablers and barriers of a social licence for technology via partnerships with industry, public health and not-for-profit organisations. Her ARC Future Fellowship research (2022-2026) supports digital and data capabilities for sexual and reproductive health policy and practice via participatory qualitative methods. Past projects have investigated young people’s practices of digital self-representation, and the role of user-generated media (including social networking platforms and dating apps) in young people’s formal and informal sexual learning, safety and wellbeing practices. Recent co-authored books include: Everyday Data Cultures (with Jean Burgess, Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wilken, Polity 2022) and Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects (with Jane Farmer, Anthony McCosker and Amir Aryani, Palgrave Macmillan 2023).