Funda Ustek-Spilda

Funda is a Research Officer at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics. She holds a DPhil in Sociology (Uni.Oxford, 2015) and MSc in Comparative Social Policy (Uni. Oxford, 2010). She is a sociologist with an interdisciplinary background and studies a wide variety of subjects in the field of sociology of knowledge, including statistical representation of vulnerable groups, gender, labour and migration and technology for social good. She works on issues of visibility and invisibility in data, and the ethical underpinnings and implications of them. Her current publications cover a wide variety of topics, such as public policy and refugee statistics, women in informal employment, media representation of vulnerable groups, bottom-up data and ethical and responsible innovation in emerging technologies.