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Associate ProfessorJustine Humphry

(she/they)

Deputy Head of School, Research

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Deputy Head of School, Research
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

Current Research Projects

 

  • Homelessness and #vanlife: exploring (self)-representations and precarious connections (with Professor Maren Hartmann at Arts University of Berlin). Project number: 2025/HE001444
  • Implications of data hunger in housing: protecting Australian renters. Australian Housing Urban Research Institute. Project number: 2024/HE000362
  • Social Media and Youth Crime. Australian Institute of Criminology. Project number: P25/105
  • Robots in restaurants and the mediation of service work. Project number: 2023/926

 

Research area and supervision

Justine researches the cultures and politics of digital media and emerging technologies with a focus on the social consequences of mobile, smart and data-driven technologies. Justine’s research also addresses the materialisation of smart cities and the datafication of urban life with a focus on the mediation of home and urban space through smart street furniture, smart voice assistants, AI and robotics.

 

I supervise PhD, MPhil and Honours students with higher research on the following topics. I currently have six PhD students I am supervising or co-supervising (Jennifer Grinham, Umar Umar, Stephanie Lee, Ning Ding, Ting Su, Rosary Coloma).

 

Research interests

  • Mobile media and communication
  • Digital inequalities and inclusion
  • Mediated publics, home/homelessness and digital technologies in urban space
  • Emerging technologies and cultures (smart, robotic, AI)
  • Everyday life, gender, race and online sociality
  • Digital media for social justice

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A study of NSW young people’s sensemaking process and the implications on social media literacy education
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Instagram-Based Disability Activism in Indonesia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Mass surveillance in China: the case of the “Sharp Eyes” program
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Participatory Storytelling In Justice Reform
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Platformised Schooling and Student Data Privacy: Trust, Consent and Power in Australian Secondary Education
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Becoming-Transparent of Ideology: Steps Towards a Critical Theory of Transparency
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Urban integration of autonomous vehicles: a comparative case study of Beijing and New South Wales