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Lecturer in Digital Media and Society, University of Sheffield

Tim Highfield is Lecturer in Digital Media and Society in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. His research explores social and digital media, from visual, temporal, cultural, and political perspectives. He is the author of Social Media and Everyday Politics (Polity, 2016), and co-author of Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (Polity, 2019). For more information, see timhighfield.net or @timhighfield on Twitter.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Lecturer in Digital Media and Society, University of Sheffield
  • 2018–2019
    Assistant Professor in New Media, University of Amsterdam
  • 2015–2018
    Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology

Education

  • 2011 
    Queensland University of Technology, PhD