Sarah Riley

Sarah Riley is a Professor in Critical Health Psychology, at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand, with expertise on gender, body image, health, and digital technologies. Her co-authored/edited books include Critical Bodies (2008); Technologies of Sexiness (2014), Postfeminism and Health, (2019; winner of the 2021 British Psychology Society book award), Postfeminism and Body Image (2022), Digital Feeling (2023), and Critical Health Psychology: Foundations, Approaches and Applications (2025, open access on Press Books); she has also published textbooks on qualitative methods. Her work has been funded by UK Research Councils (ESRC, EPSRC, British Academy), Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council, and the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Her current projects focus on the intersections between identity, gender, and digital technologies and the possibilities for wellbeing that they enable or limit; seeing to understand, and ultimately impact on, the rapidly developing digitalized world structuring women’s embodied experiences.