Lauren Redfern
Digital Intimacies Research Assistant
Biography
Lauren (she/her) is the Digital Intimacies Research Assistant. Along with managing our social media accounts, Lauren will be responsible for producing a fanzine and an end of project report and that engages with findings from the Digital Intimacies Project. She will also be orchestrating an academic symposium to help disseminate the project findings to third sector organisations.
Before joining the team, Lauren was based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she was pursuing a PhD in Medical Anthropology. Her PhD research explores the use of testosterone and considers the ways in which the social and biomedical can interact to inform our perceptions and understandings of the body and its processes.
Research
Digital Intimacies
Digital Intimacies examines how gay & bisexual men negotiate their cultures of intimacy, away from hook-up applications and on to ‘intermedial’ smartphone use.
Project status: Ongoing
Research
Digital Intimacies
Digital Intimacies examines how gay & bisexual men negotiate their cultures of intimacy, away from hook-up applications and on to ‘intermedial’ smartphone use.
Project status: Ongoing