- Professor, Communications, University of Technology Sydney
Heather Ford is a writer, scholar and designer of public knowledge technologies. Her research focuses on the social implications of digital media technologies and the ways in which they might be better designed and regulated to prevent disinformation, social exclusion, and epistemic injustice. She was the first public lead for Creative Commons South Africa, a former advisory board member of the Wikimedia Foundation and an alumnus fellow of the Stanford Reuters Digital Entrepreneurship programme. Her work has been covered by Slate, the New Scientist, the BBC, ABC, Der Welt and the Financial Times. She currently works as an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney's School of Communications.
Experience
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2025–presentProfessor, University of Technology Sydney
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2019–2025Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney
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2018–2019Senior lecturer, University of New South Wales
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2015–2017Fellow, University of Leeds
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2011–2012Ethnographer, Ushahidi
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2010–2010Policy Fellow, Google / Electronic Frontier Foundation
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2006–2008Executive Director, iCommons
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2003–2004Fellow, Reuters/Benetech Digital Vision Fellowship Programme
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2002–2003Project Manager, Association for Progressive Communications
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2000–2002Digital Information Manager, Electoral Institute of Southern Africa
Education
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2015University of Oxford, DPhil
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2011University of California Berkeley, MIMS
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2002University of the Witwatersrand, Telecommunications Policy, Regulation and Management Certificate
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2000Rhodes University, BJourn
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