Wendy Moncur

Wendy Moncur

Role: Senior TPC & Track chair for “Web 2.0, online medical/patient communities of practice and persuasive technology”
Affiliation: University Of Dundee, UK

Dr Wendy Moncur, FRSA is a Reader in Socio-Digital Interaction at the University of Dundee, where she leads the Living Digital group (www.livingdigital.ac.uk). She is also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and an Associate of the Centre for Death and Society (University of Bath). She has held an EPSRC Personal Fellowship and been a Principal Investigator/ Co-investigator on grants totalling £1.6 Million since 2011.

Intrinsically interdisciplinary, yet grounded in Computing, Wendy’s research program focuses on the design of technology to support being human in a Digital Age. Supported by a personal EPSRC Fellowship for “Digital Inheritanceâ€�, she has examined how personal data is bequeathed, inherited and repurposed (2011-2015). She is currently Principal Investigator on the EPSRC-funded research program “Charting the Digital Lifespan”, which unites internationally leading researchers at five UK institutions across the social and computer sciences (2013-2016). This research program investigates how the digital is woven into the fabric of people’s lives both now and in a future where citizens have lived entirely in a Digital Age. Wendy’s research has also explored the design and use of technology during other significant points across the human lifespan, including serious illness, becoming a carer, and relationship breakdown. Full details of Wendy’s publications can be found here.

Wendy shares the results of her research with the public at festivals (e.g. Edinburgh Turing Festival 2012, Cheltenham Literature Festival 2013), with policy-makers (e.g. provision of written evidence to the 2014 UK Commons Committee on Social Media Data and Real Time Analytics), and the media (e.g. BBC, The Times, CNN). Before moving into academia, Moncur worked in Information Technology in Manufacturing, Utilities and Financial Services sectors, including a FTSE-100 bank.