Two new visiting fellows Interdisciplinary Research on Digital Society and Economy
Published: 13 October 2023
In October 2023, the Digital Society and Economy theme was joined by two new visiting fellows, Jennifer Challinor and Al Duff .
Jennifer Challinor
Jennifer Challinor is the Head of Research and Development at The Crichton. She has been with the Trust since January 2018. She leads on embedding age-friendly, zero carbon and technology-driven innovation into both the work of the organisation and local communities. She is passionate about testing the next generation of innovations and understanding the challenges and opportunities of adapting to technology a climate emergency and an ageing society in rural communities. She coordinated the ‘Building the Case for a Care Campus’ Project for the Trust. This was a 3-year community-led project that ended in December 2020. During this project she worked to explore the opportunities of an ageing rural population and how rural places can innovate and be empowered to find solutions that work for them.
Al Duff
Al Duff is visiting fellow in digital society and economy and lectures on the MSc Digital Society. He is emeritus professor of information policy at Edinburgh Napier University. He is also a presenter and podcaster at Edinburgh-based edupreneurial startup, The Credo Academy. He was previously an academic visitor in the philosophy and politics departments at the University of Edinburgh, and prior to that at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Open University of Catalonia. He is the author of Information Society Studies (Routledge, 2000) and A Normative Theory of the Information Society (Routledge, 2012), and editor of the Research Handbook on Information Policy (Elgar, 2021). He has been a visiting fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and a summer-school lecturer at the University of Zurich. As well as authoring over 60 academic papers, he has contributed to a range of print and broadcast media, including Newsnight, Scotland Tonight, Radio Sputnik, the Atlantic.com and the Sunday Express.
First published: 13 October 2023