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University of Bath

Digital technology academic experts

Across a range of themes, we have experts available to provide analysis and comment to journalists on multiple aspects of digital technology.

Experts from our School of Management and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences are available for interview requests on a broad range of digital technology topics.

Please contact the media team first to match your request to the most suitable academic, at press@bath.ac.uk or call 01225 386319.

Online harm, digital behaviour and security

  • Dr Olivia Brown: digital data, behavioural science, misinformation, polarisation, conspiracy, extremism, terrorism
  • Dr Alicia Cork: online harm, extended and virtual reality harms, tech policy, collective harm, algorithmic biases, digital data
  • Dr Brit Davidson: data security and privacy, smartphones and social media usage and patterns, social data science, behavioural analytics, online behaviour
  • Prof David Ellis: behavioural science, computational social science, smartphones, social media, privacy
  • Prof Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis: Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse (TA-CSA), including victim vulnerabilities and grooming; child sexual offender behaviour and motivations; policing TA-CSA and child maltreatment
  • Dr Tim Hill: online conspiracy theories
  • Dr Jo Hinds: digital data, online behaviour, privacy, research methods, metascience
  • Dr Lukasz Piwek: smartphone use patterns, social media behaviour, digital footprints
  • Prof Laura G E Smith: Psychology/ behavioural science, polarisation, radicalisation, extremism and terrorism; protests and collective action; social media behaviour and online interaction; AI/ generative AI and human factors

Digital technology and health

  • Dr Brit Davidson: smartphones and mental health, mental health measurement, digital wearables, health monitoring
  • Prof David Ellis: computational learning, digital data in healthcare, smartphones and mental health, digital wearables and health
  • Dr Jeffrey Lambert: digital behaviour interventions to improve physical and mental health, social media and mental health, digital inclusion
  • Dr Lukasz Piwek: wearable technology adoption, data science applications in psychology
  • Dr Mike Richardson: creative technology, Virtual Reality, visual impairment and accessibility
  • Dr Max Western: digital lifestyle behaviour interventions, health technology engagement, development and user needs, and the digital divide

Digital technology and politics

  • Dr Benoit Dillet: critical thinking and technology; digital capitalism; social systems and technology; transhumanism and discourses on extinction; AI hype and techno-optimism; technosolutionism and 'green' technologies