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Visiting Research Fellow @StJohnsDurham

When I left CODEC after five years, St John’s College invited me to become a Visiting Research Fellow. This was approved at a meeting the other week. Here’s what it says about me:

Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has been developing her experience since 1997. Trained as a mass communications historian, she wrote the original history of Keep Calm and Carry On, research that she is currently converting into a book. After five years working for CODEC combining Biblical and digital literacy, she is now Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University, with a particular interest in digital culture, and how this affects the third sector, especially faith and voluntary organisations, and government behavioural campaigns. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of ‘Raising Children in a Digital Age’ (Lion Hudson, 2014)n which has been featured on The One Show, BBC News, Steve Wright in the Afternoon, and in the Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Church Times, and numerous other publications.

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Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst  (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.

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