Staff profile

Briony Anderson (she/her) is a Career Development Fellow (Criminology) in the Department of Sociology at Durham. Before joining Durham, she completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2024. Her doctoral research explores how doxxing, the non-consensual disclosure of personal, identifying, and sensitive information, harms victim-survivors in gendered, relational, and sensorial ways. 

Research Area

Briony is a digital criminologist specialising in research on privacy abuse, gendered-harms, and technology-facilitated violence and abuse. She uses narrative, creative interviewing and critical techno-cultural discourse analysis to consider how technologies contour experiences of digital abuse, as well as the capacity to resist against them. Briony engages posthumanist and new materialist theoretical frameworks in her work with victim-survivors, and is interested in feminist and queer pedagogies of research and praxis. She also researches on police-perpetrated domestic and family violence, with a focus on the role of independent commissions of inquiry in addressing systemic violence. 

Teaching

• Crime, Justice and the Sex Industry
• Introduction to Criminological Theory
• Critical Scholarship in Social Sciences

• Technology-facilitated violence and abuse, digital criminology, privacy abuse, posthumanism, feminist research methods, queer theory

• 2024: Emerging Scholar Award - Technology, Knowledge and Society International Conference, Valencia: