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Lauren  Redfern

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

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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 logo
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