Miss Emma Brice

Professional biography

Emma’s research interests are very much influenced by the years she spent working in information technology and a fascination with dystopian sci-fi novels. The primary focus of her current PhD research is data privacy which was inspired initially by the revelations from Edward Snowden and Julian Assange regarding the ramifications of mass data collection. Her qualitative research investigates how lay people, corporations, governments, and experts talk about data privacy in the virtual world. The aim is to look at how understandings of data privacy are constructed within these groups, and to what ends, to try and understand how this may impact our current cultural valuation of privacy and our conduct as individual citizens.

Emma is part of the Psychology & Counselling team and works as an associate lecturer on DD317: Advancing Social Psychology where she enjoys talking with students about critical social psychology and how it relates to contemporary social issues.