Super excited to announce that the interactive quilt Dr Angelika Strohmayer ✊🇪🇺 Gillian McFadyen and I have co-created with mothers across Wales will have it's first proper outing Electromagnetic Field later this month after securing an AHRC impact acceleration grant!

Who else do I know that is going to be at Electromagnetic Field this year??

Ever wanted to see what goes on in a design research group? Come see for yourself on the 17th of May as part of The Late Shows!

There's been plenty of talk about whether the generative AI revolution is more hype or reality. After mulling over the question of how transformative AI will be for my book, here are five ways I think AI is a gamechanger... 🧵

🚨#ECSCW2024 #Workshop: Conducting Interdisciplinary Research with Vulnerable Populations in Computing: Challenges, Practices, and Lessons Learned. More info, deadlines, and application here 👉 sites.google.com/view/ecscw2024… ECSCW conference #ECSCW2024

There is still time to apply for the workshop I am co-organising at ACM DIS 2024 "Sensing Heritage: Exploring Creative Approaches for Capturing, Experiencing and Safeguarding the Sensorial Aspects of Cultural Heritage" 👇👇👇hci.cyens.org.cy/sensingheritag…

🚨Attending ECSCW conference2024? Join us in our workshop: Conducting Interdisciplinary Research with Vulnerable Populations in Computing: Challenges, Practices, and Lessons Learned. DEADLINE EXTENDED: June 10th. Apply here 👉 sites.google.com/view/ecscw2024… @ECSCW #ECSCW2024

CFP: racial matters or Asian/America, a Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience special section. Calling scholars working on materiality, STS and race. catalystjournal.org/index.php/cata…

Looking forward to launching my new book Craft as a Creative Industry next week. Delighted that Rose Sinclair MBE FRSA and Dr Saskia Warren will be joining me to talk about it. Join us in person or online from 4pm on Weds 12th June! tickettailor.com/events/birming…

Just a quick PSA for men: I would think very carefully about catcalling a woman at 4:28pm on a Friday when she’s clearly on her way home from work with anger on her face and in her heart

Finally! Our report on impact storytelling is out in the world - a resource for storytellers, artivists, scholars and campaigners interested in using storytelling for social change: arts.ac.uk/__data/assets/… AKO Storytelling Institute

Anyone interested in applying for a British Academy postdoc fellowship on gender, reproductive politics, feminism, or the left in Europe after 1945, please email me with expression of interest, cv, and project abstract by 1 July. You would join the amazing UofG Centre for Gender History!

A literature review isn't a REVIEW without including critical discussion. But, many students don't know how to add critique to their discussion. Here's the structure for an academic critical discussion:

To my fellow swiftie academics during promotions rejection season: even as someone who’s no-contact with mine, the But Daddy I Love Him bridge really hits the spot 💅✨

Good to know for #DIS2024 attendees: our Editor-in-Chief Helen Petrie and I have launched the first pictorial track in an HCI/design journal - submit your pictorials all year long to Interacting with Computers! academic.oup.com/iwc

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Twitter is dying but before we all leave, just want to flag that I’m on the lookout for roles in the broad spectrum of research/writing/policy on technology and society. Keen to chat to anyone who can help out or direct me to something! (Bonus photo of me for the algorithm)

This project has been such heart work ❤️✨