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Dr Clare Southerton serves as a Senior Lecturer in Monash University's School of Education, Culture and Society, holding a PhD in Sociology from the Australian National University (ANU) awarded December 15, 2017. Her academic profile demonstrates active engagement across teaching, research supervision, and externally funded projects through 2025.
Her research expertise centers on digital society with core specializations in social media dynamics, misinformation ecosystems, and youth digital cultures. Key thematic areas include data privacy implications in educational contexts, wellness culture intersections with public health crises, and gendered health discourses in online spaces. Current investigations examine menstrual representations on social media and neurodiversity self-diagnosis communities.
Recent publications (2024-2025) reveal a pronounced focus on digital mental health paradoxes, algorithmic influences on health identity formation, and critical analyses of wellness commodification. These works collectively demonstrate methodological innovation in digital ethnography and discourse analysis within rapidly evolving technological landscapes.
She currently leads the active research project Examining Menstrual Discourses Circulating in Social Media and Capturing Young People's Imaginaries of More Positive Menstrual Futures (2025-2027) as Chief Investigator alongside Primary CI M. Clark. Dr Southerton is accepting new PhD candidates and maintains an extensive publication record of 32 outputs since 2014, with significant output acceleration in recent years (8 outputs in 2024 alone).
