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Introducing the new UCL Social Data Institute Deputy Directors
7 January 2025
Caroline Parker, Tone Walford and Julia de Romémont have all been appointed as Deputy Directors of the UCL Social Data Institute.
Caroline Parker is a Lecturer of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, and the founder of Learning in Prison, an organization dedicated to expanding access to higher education for incarcerated people. She is the author of “Carceral Citizens: Labor and Confinement in Puerto Rico,” published by University of Chicago Press. Her current research explores the health and social impacts of incarceration, and she is the Principal Investigator of the HIPS Study—Hidden in Plain Sight: Incarceration’s Racialized Health Impacts in Latin America—funded by a 5-year Wellcome Trust Career Development Award.
Tone Walford (they/them) is Associate Professor of Digital Anthropology at UCL. Their research and teaching explores the effects of the exponential growth of digital data on social, cultural and political imaginaries and practices, with an ethnographic focus on Brazil and the environmental sciences. They have recently been working collaboratively on projects exploring data justice in different contexts around the world, and are interested in developing new forms of trans-disciplinary practice.
Julia de Romémont is a Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods and Political Science in the Department of Political Science at UCL. Her research interests lie in the fields of political economy, public opinion and behaviour and the politics of migration. In particular, in her research, she aims to better understand how and when anti-redistributive, exclusionary and reactionary attitudes and political behaviour emerge, using diverse quantitative methods techniques, including causal inference approaches and survey experiments. She has been teaching a range of social data science modules, from introductory to advanced levels, and is deeply committed to enhancing empirical literacy among students and the wider society.
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Meeting the UCL Social Data Institute Team
UCL Department of Anthropology
UCL Department of Political Science