[ACADEMIC] Video for ‘Expert Women’ Series @mmu_business

Over the summer, I was asked to contribute to the video series ‘Expert Women‘ for MMU Business School, and last week we recorded. We talked about moving from my original research in history, to current research in digital, my plans for research related to social media and cancer, and some of the media work that […]
[ACADEMIC] Membership of Centre for Decent Work and Productivity @mmu_decentwork

I’m pleased to have been invited to join Manchester Metropolitan University’s new Centre for Decent Work and Productivity: Work that is both decent for workers and productive for organisations, is vital to the success of any good society. Our research centre builds knowledge about the relationship between work quality and performance, and how these can […]
[CANCER] So, is it all over then? You’re all right now, then? #BreastCancer #OneYearOn

So, here we are, a year on from the official diagnosis of Breast Cancer (looking back at some lovely responses to the first tweet about it, although I’d already been quite overwhelmed by the ‘hugs’ etc via Facebook even earlier). I decided quite early on that I was going to use social media and blogging […]
[FUNDING/RESEARCH/CANCER] Onto Second Round for Social Media Bid with @MacmillanCancer

Macmillan, a cancer charity, seeks to undertake research with impact, keen to invest ‘in research that will deliver long term benefits for people living with cancer’. As someone who has found herself in ‘the cancer world’, and as a digital researcher, I was not surprised to find how helpful Facebook groups (along with other social […]
[MEDIA] Challenging assumptions: is screen time for children necessarily bad? @MMU_Business

I’ve been featured on MMU News, as I’ve had my research accepted for use as submitted evidence to a parliamentary inquiry on the impact of social media and screen-use on young people’s health https://bit.ly/2K9osdH :