Claire Dungey

Dr Claire Dungey is a research fellow on the project 'Ageism in Ai: New forms of age discrimination and exclusion in the era of algorithms and artificial intelligence (project PI Maria Sourbati). This research involves doing qualitative interviews with transport/AI developers as well as older participants over 60 using smart technologies and transport services in Brighton and London. 

Claire is an anthropologist with an expertise within the areas of surveillance, transport and mobility and well as childhood and youth studies. 

Scholarly bibliography: Claire has a BA, MSc and PhD degree in anthropology from Aarhus University.

Prior to joining the University of Brighton, Claire Dungey has done extensive research with families exploring transitions over the lifecourse and future aspirations, e.g. in rural Lesotho (Brunel University London) and south western Uganda (Aarhus University). Her PhD fieldwork is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda on schooling, youth transitions and friendships. In Claire's most recent work at King's College London she explored how family members in Germany monitor their children in real-time using surveillance apps as a form of care, but also how other families resist these technologies and are critical of data capitalism. 

Claire has also done participatory work within the area of mobility and transport in city contexts in African countries (Tunis, Abuja and Cape Town) involving peer researchers and policy makers in the research project (Durham University).

Areas of interest:

The anthropology of education

The anthropology of futures

Digital Anthropology

Surveillance studies

Mobility studies