Kath Albury

(she/her)

Kath is a Chief Investigator in the Swinburne Node of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADMS), and an ARC Future Fellow (2022-2026). She is also a Chief Investigator on the Swedish/Australian collaboration 'Digital sexual health: Designing for safety, pleasure and wellbeing in LGBTQ+ communities' (2022-2025), with Professor Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University) and Dr Zahra Stardust (QUT).

Recent co-authored books include: 'Everyday Data Cultures' (with Jean Burgess, Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wilken, Polity 2022) and 'Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects' (with Jane Farmer, Anthony McCosker and Amir Aryani, Palgrave Macmillan 2023).

Experience

  • 2014–2017
    Associate professor, University of NSW
  • 2008–2014
    Senior lecturer, University of NSW
  • 2001–2008
    Research assistant/ casual lecturer, University of Sydney

Education

  • 2007 
    UNSW, PhD, Media and Communications
  • 1997 
    University of Technology, Sydney, BA Comm, Hons

Contact Kath for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision