Dr Faranak Hardcastle
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I am a Research Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) where I explore the social and environmental dimensions of emerging science and technology, with previous work in areas such as AI, Personalised Medicine, and more recently, energy transition. In my research and teaching, I am particularly interested in how the stories we tell shape the relationship between science, society, and the environment, and how these evolving dynamics, in turn, influence our capacities to imagine, communicate, and act through new narratives. I often collaborate with experts from various disciplines to apply creative methods that can help improve our understanding of sociotechnoecological issues and design effective interventions for mobilising and enacting change. Some examples include:
- The application of story completion methods to engage with people’s view about the use of routinely collected healthcare data (2020-2021),
- Participant observation of the application of Semantic Linked Data for researching health inequalities (2019-2020),
- The application of speculative design for understanding the issues around, and intervening for, improving transparency in Online Behavioural Tracking and Advertising technologies and practices (2014-2019).
I am currently a Visiting Fellow at Centre for Human Genetics (University of Oxford) and Visiting Fellow in Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education (University of Southampton). I obtained my PhD in Web Science from the University of Southampton, and previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, at University of Oxford, the department of Medicine at the University of Southampton, and the School of Sociology, Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol.
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