
Dr Miriam Mukasa
Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader (Global Studies)
Senior Lecturer
Information systems/ICTs and Global Development
Department of Social Work Counselling & Social Care , School of Childhood and Social Care
Miriam Mukasa is a senior lecturer in digital technology and global development and is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Qualifications
- PhD
Areas Of Interest
- Digital/ICT innovation for sustainable development
- Digital accessibility
- Poverty, digital Inequality, and social justice
- Gender and technology
- The politics of digital technology
- Applicability of theories of social construction, actor network, the capability approach, social justice and Intersectionality, to digital innovation research.
OVERVIEW
Miriam Mukasa is a Senior lecturer in Digital Technology and Global Development and has a background in analysis, design, and management of Information Systems. She teaches across programmes in the School of Childhood and Social Care and her teaching focuses on a socio-technical approach to the role of digital technology in socio-economic development.
Her research interests include deconstruction of concepts of development and transformation to encourage deeper understanding of processes and practices of adoption, embedding and use of digital technology and how the dynamics of these processes and practices shape user capabilities and opportunities for digital transformation, and sustainable development. She also has interest in the relationship between intersectionality, digital inequality and social justice and she is a strong advocate of digital accessibility. She is a member of the Inclusive Research Team for the RIX Centre which develops new technologies to achieve change for people with learning difficulties and their families and is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Current research deconstructs concepts of transformation and student experiences of digital access for academic engagement to encourage broader understanding of the interrelationship between digital access and inequality in higher education. The research is informed by findings from her primary research on adoption embedding and use of new technologies for transformation of the Higher Education sector and by current debates around the role of digital technology in education and social mobility.
Miriam is also researching experiences of digital access to health and welfare services for the deaf in the UK.
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
- (2013) ‘The Cultural Implications of the Consumption of ICTs for Development’ in Cudworth, E., Senker, P and Walker, K. eds. Technology, Society, and Inequality: New Horizons and Contested Futures, Peter Lang
- (2005) ‘Implementation of Large-Scale Software Applications: Possibilities for end-user participation” (with Stepulevage Linda) in The Gender Politics of ICT (Archibald J., Emms, J., Paye, K and Turner, E. ed), Middlesex University Press.
Journals
- (2005) "The Social Relations of Large-Scale Software System Implementation", (with Stepulevage Linda), Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Troubador Publishing Ltd.
TEACHING
MODULES
Undergraduate
- Introduction to Sustainable Development (Module leader)
- Intersectionality and Digital Cultures (Module leader)
- Undergraduate Dissertation (Supervisor)
- Social enterprise (Module leader)
- Mental Wealth, Skills and Self (Module Leader)
- Globalisation and society
Postgraduate
Independent Applied Research and Dissertation
Publications
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