research

A wayward linguist now in digital sociology, my academic work focuses on social media, online activist socialities, and the platform-mediated viral spread of political and social justice content, with a tangential view to understanding the role and meaning of virality in contemporary communication culture.

In January 2026 I will be starting a ESRC-funded PhD research project with the University of Cambridge Sociology department to continue the work begun in my MPhil thesis, Recontextualising Viral Justice: Social Media Virality, Feminist Connective Action and the 2021 Injection Spiking Incidents (2023), in which I developed a novel theory of 'viral' social justice activism through cross-platform digital ethnography.

My research and associated writing was awarded the 2023 Polity Prize and featured in Liminal Texts (2023, Frances St Press & The Sociologicl Review Foundation). I have previouly held a senior editor position at the student-led Journal of Intersectional Social Justice