Young Women’s Digital Lives

Dr Emma Turley is a senior lecturer in psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Emma have broad range of interdisciplinary research interests which can broadly be described under the umbrella of' wellbeing'. She is a Critical Psychologist with specialist areas of interest including gender, LGBTQI+ psychology, feminism, sexualities, and women's health. She is also interested in qualitative research methods, especially phenomenological psychology and experiential research, and the use of innovative data collection techniques. Emma’s recent work is around the use of digital spaces to shout back against sexual harassment, gendered violence and abuse, and the usefulness of online spaces for feminist activism.

Dr Rose Capdevila is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research in the School of Psychology at The Open University.  Her research focuses on gender in digital spaces. This includes selfies and social media and mothering on and offline.  Her theoretical focus is on the construction and transgression of discursive boundaries around identity - in particular political and gender identities. She is also interested in the role and politics of methodology in psychology. She is co-editor of the journal Feminism & Psychology and of the committee for the Psychology of Women & Equalities section of the BPS. She is a member of the Networking Families research group which is organising this seminar series.

Dr Charlotte Dann is a Lecturer in Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Northampton. She received her PhD from the University of Northampton in 2018, exploring the regulation, conformity, and resistance of tattooed women in the UK. She is currently working on two main projects – one, a multi-university project exploring aspects of parenting practices online, and the second, a funded project focusing on issues of diversity in higher education. She is an editorial assistant for Psychology of Women & Equalities Review, and a committee member for the Psychology of Women & Equalities Section. She is a member of the Networking Families research group which is organising this seminar series.

Annelot Prins is pursuing her PhD in American cultural studies at the Graduate School of North American Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Her research is grounded in feminist theory and combines audience research with celebrity studies to theorize the rise and reception of celebrity feminism in contemporary US-American pop music. Previous work consisted of an analysis of Beyoncé’s star text, and she has engaged representations of white female sexuality in the oeuvres of Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus in her work, leading to publications and media appearances in these areas.

Dr Beth Bell is a Senior Lecturer at York St John University. Her research examines the role of media, social media and technology in the lives of adolescents and young adults. More specifically, she examine how media and technology are involved in the transmission of dominant appearance and body-related messages and the impact of such messages on the self-perception, body image and health behaviour of individuals. She is co-investigator on two NIHR-ESPRC funded projects aimed at understanding the role of digital technologies in young people’s mental health. She also currently leads Body Image in the Digital Age, a teacher training initiative aimed at providing teachers with the knowledge and skills to promote positive technology use and positive body image in schools.