Clare Southerton

Clare Southerton is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Education and Society in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Her research explores how social media platforms and other digital technologies are used for learning, as well as misinformation practices and conspiracy cultures. She is a co-author of The Face Mask In COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor of Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures (Emerald, 2024).​​

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Senior lecturer, Monash University
  • 2022–2024
    Lecturer, La Trobe University
  • 2019–2022
    Postdoctoral fellow, UNSW
  • 2018–2019
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University

Education

  • 2017 
    Australian National University, PhD Sociology

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