Briony Anderson

Dr Briony Anderson is a Career Development Fellow (Criminology) in the Department of Sociology at Durham University. Her work lies at the intersection of digital criminology, feminist theory, and technology studies, with a focus on how digital technologies mediate and amplify gendered violence and privacy abuse.

Education:

• PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia (2024)

Research Interests:

Dr Anderson’s research is deeply interdisciplinary, combining digital criminology with feminist and queer theory. She specializes in:

• Technology-facilitated violence and abuse
• Privacy abuse and doxxing
• Posthumanist and new materialist frameworks
• Feminist and queer pedagogies
• Police-perpetrated domestic and family violence

Her methodological approach includes narrative and creative interviewing and critical techno-cultural discourse analysis, with a strong emphasis on ethical and reflexive research practices.

Scientific Awards:

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

Teaching & Academic Service:

Dr Anderson contributes to teaching in the following areas:

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

Research Outputs & Trends:

Her publications span from 2020 to 2025, with a strong focus on doxxing, technology-facilitated violence, and feminist methodologies. Her work is published in leading journals such as Crime Media Culture, The British Journal of Criminology, and Qualitative Inquiry. A forthcoming monograph titled Doxxed: How Privacy Abuse Harms is under contract with Bristol University Press.