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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
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

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.
Miriam Mukasa smiling wearing an orange top

OVERVIEW

Miriam Mukasa is a senior lecturer in Digital Technology and Global Development. She has a background in the analysis, design, and management of Information Systems. Miriam teaches within the School of Childhood and Social Care, where her focus is on a socio-technical approach to the role of digital technology in socio-economic development.

Miriam's research focuses on two main areas. First, she examines how concepts of development and transformation can be broken down to better understand how digital technology is adopted and used. This includes exploring how these processes shape a user's capabilities and create opportunities for digital transformation and sustainable development.

Her second area of interest is the relationship between intersectionality, digital inequality, and social justice. As a strong advocate for digital accessibility, she is also a member of the Inclusive Research Team for the RIX Centre, which creates new technologies to help people with learning difficulties and their families. She is also a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy

CURRENT RESEARCH

Miriam's current research focuses on the interrelationship between digital access and inequality in higher education. She deconstructs concepts of transformation and student experiences of digital access for academic engagement. This work is informed by her previous research on the adoption and use of new technologies in the higher education sector, as well as by current discussions about the role of digital technology in education and social mobility. 

Additionally, Miriam is researching the experiences of deaf people in the UK regarding their access to digital health and welfare services.

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

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