Dr. Becky Faith is a Research Fellow at IDS and is also Co-Lead of RT4 of the ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre at the University of Sussex.
Becky’s professional experience and research interests encompass gender and technology, mobile communication studies, human computer interaction and technology for social change. Becky has fifteen years’ strategic and programme experience working in ICT4D and technology for human rights organisations. She started her career in digital start-ups, working on the UK’s first e-commerce platforms in the 1990s. Becky’s PhD focused on the use of mobile phones by young women and she is an international expert in research and strategy on the use of mobile phones in marginalised communities. She has an MSc. in Technology Strategy and Policy Research from the Open University.
In the digital cluster her work focuses on digital inequalities, gender and technology and the future of work.
PhD supervision
Becky is currently supervising the following PhD scholars:
- Heather Williams, whose work focuses on the role of gendered social stigma in the lives of homeless women with multiple and complex needs who experience deep social exclusion
- Sarah Stephen, whose work looks at the role of technology as a way of increasing access to justice for women in Tanzania; exploring social, cultural, and technical barriers to digital access
- Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur, whose work looks at the emerging digital economy and gig work, and how this has changed the way informal women workers are able to engage with the labour market in India.
