Dr Isabelle Higgins is a Teaching Associate in Media and Culture and Sociological Theory. Isabelle is interested in studying empirical sites in which emerging forms of technology are made sense of and used by people in their everyday lives. She draws on a range of social theory to critically interrogate the power relations and expressions of social inequality that are reflected, refracted, reproduced or challenged in such empirical locations.
Isabelle studied for her PhD, MPhil, and undergraduate degrees at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. She has received of a range of awards and fellowships. Currently, Isabelle holds a Tech Policy Fellowship at the University of California Berkeley, where she is exploring the policy implications that emerge from her empirical PhD research and subsequent thinking on Generative AI technologies.

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