Digital technology academic experts
Across a range of themes, we have experts available to provide analysis and comment to journalists on multiple aspects of digital technology.
Experts from our School of Management and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences are available for interview requests on a broad range of digital technology topics.
Please contact the media team first to match your request to the most suitable academic, at press@bath.ac.uk or call 01225 386319.
Online harm, digital behaviour and security
- : digital data, behavioural science, misinformation, polarisation, conspiracy, extremism, terrorism
- : online harm, extended and virtual reality harms, tech policy, collective harm, algorithmic biases, digital data
- : data security and privacy, smartphones and social media usage and patterns, social data science, behavioural analytics, online behaviour
- : behavioural science, computational social science, smartphones, social media, privacy
- : Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse (TA-CSA), including victim vulnerabilities and grooming; child sexual offender behaviour and motivations; policing TA-CSA and child maltreatment
- : online conspiracy theories
- : digital data, online behaviour, privacy, research methods, metascience
- : smartphone use patterns, social media behaviour, digital footprints
- : Psychology/ behavioural science, polarisation, radicalisation, extremism and terrorism; protests and collective action; social media behaviour and online interaction; AI/ generative AI and human factors
Digital technology and health
- : smartphones and mental health, mental health measurement, digital wearables, health monitoring
- : computational learning, digital data in healthcare, smartphones and mental health, digital wearables and health
- : digital behaviour interventions to improve physical and mental health, social media and mental health, digital inclusion
- : wearable technology adoption, data science applications in psychology
- : creative technology, Virtual Reality, visual impairment and accessibility
- : digital lifestyle behaviour interventions, health technology engagement, development and user needs, and the digital divide
Digital technology and politics
- : critical thinking and technology; digital capitalism; social systems and technology; transhumanism and discourses on extinction; AI hype and techno-optimism; technosolutionism and 'green' technologies