People

Program Leaders

• Prof Mark Burdon
  

  Co-Program Leader - Governing Digital Societies

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• Assoc Prof Anna Huggins
  

  Co-Program Leader - Governing Digital Societies

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Chief Investigators

• Dr Elija Cassidy
  

  Senior Lecturer, School of Communication

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• Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez
  

  Lecturer, School of Communication

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• Dr Kylie Pappalardo
  

  Lecturer, Faculty of Law

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• Nicolas Suzor
  

  Professor, Law Faculty

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Affiliate Investigators

• Dr Michael Chataway
  

  Lecturer, Faculty of Law

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• Dr Bernadette Hyland-Wood
  

  Lecturer - Master of Digital Communication, School of Communication

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• Prof Kieran Tranter
  

  Professor, Faculty of Law

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Research Fellows

• Tegan Cohen
  

  Post Doctoral Research Fellow

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• Dr Henry Fraser
  

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, QUT Node of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society

• Dr Rosalie Gillett
  

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, QUT Node of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society

• Jessica Megarry
  

  Postdoctoral Fellow (GeoPrivacy)

• Dr Aaron Snoswell
  

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, QUT Node of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society

• Dr Zahra Stardust
  

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, QUT Node of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society

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HDR students

• Louisa Bartolo
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - You might like this, but at what cost? Considering the social responsibilities of digital platforms' recommender systems

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• Rene Cornish
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Dismissal for Social Media Misconduct in the Global South

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• Nick Dowse
  

  PhD Candidate l Judicial artificial intelligence in the pursuit of better access to justice and improved quality in judicial decision-making

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• Diana Girle
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The legal implications of Australian workers wearing wearable and mobile technologies at work

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• Shubhangi Heda
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Evolving Media Environment in Repressive Regimes: Cultural , Social and Political Implication of Internet Distributed Television

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• Katrin Langton
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - A walk-through of infant feeding apps: understanding the construct of contemporary parenthood

• Gisella Lopes Gomes Pinto Ferreira
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Digital dating abuse among teenagers in the Global-South: victimisation experiences of Brasilians and Australians

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• Lucinda Nelson
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Where misogyny hides: An examination of everyday misogyny in discourses about Depp v Heard on social media platforms.

• Bikalpa Rajbhandari
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Data Portability Rights in Australian Digital Agriculture: Improving Data Governance for Sustainable Agriculture

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• Sam Regi
  

  MPhil Student | Thesis - Impacts of Process Journalism with marginalised communities: Amplifying the voices of the Royal Commission into Aged Care

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• Sahana Sarkar
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Exploring Women Survivors’ Experiences Of And Responses To Cyberviolence In India

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• Rhyle Simcock
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Explaining Automated Decision-Making: Enhancing algorithmic transparency in machine learning systems used in public sector decision-making

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• Kirsty Unger
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The automation of decision making in revenue administration: The complexity of the legal issues in an administrative law framework

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