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Dr Ash Watson
Senior Lecturer

Dr Ash Watson

Bachelor of Communication (Hons 1), Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University

Arts,Design & Architecture
Centre for Social Research in Health

Dr Ash Watson is a Senior Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Her research uses qualitative and arts-based methods to explore how people understand, imagine and live with digital technologies.

Ash is Fiction Editor of The Sociological Review and the creator/editor of So Fi Zine, an open-access publication for sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. 

Her debut novel Into the Sea was published by Brill in 2020. She makes zines at Frances St Press.
E-mail
ashleigh.watson@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2021
    Lupton D; Southerton C; Clark M; Watson A, 2021, The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis, De Gruyter, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110723717
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Watson A, 2023, 'Youth, zines and music scenes', in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture, Bloomsbury, London
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Byron P; McKee A; Watson A; Litsou K; Ingham R, 2022, 'Pornography and porn literacy', in What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research?, Routledge, pp. 65 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003232032-6
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Southerton C; Clark M; Watson A; Lupton D, 2022, 'The Futures of Qualitative Research in the COVID-19 Era: Experimenting with Creative and Digital Method', in Matthewman S (ed.), A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 155 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800885141.00016
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Watson A; Bennett A, 2022, 'Why Do People Read Zines? Meaning, Materiality and Cultures of Reading', in Thumala Olave MA (ed.), The Cultural Sociology of Reading: The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 65 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13227-8_3#DOI
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Lupton D; Wozniak-O'Connor V; Rose MC; Watson A, 2023, 'More-than-Human Wellbeing: Materialising the Relations, Affects, and Agencies of Health, Kinship, and Care', M/C Journal, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2976
    Journal articles | 2023
    Watson A; Wozniak-O'Connor V; Lupton D, 2023, 'Health information in creative translation: establishing a collaborative project of research and exhibition making', Health Sociology Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2023.2171802
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lupton D; Watson A, 2022, 'Research-Creations for Speculating About Digitized Automation: Bringing Creative Writing Prompts and Vital Materialism into the Sociology of Futures', Qualitative Inquiry, 28, pp. 754 - 766, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778004221097049
    Journal articles | 2022
    Watson A; Lupton D; Michael M, 2022, 'The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data: findings from a participant map drawing method', Visual Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2022.2043774
    Journal articles | 2022
    Watson A; Lupton D, 2022, 'Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods', International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069221078376
    Journal articles | 2022
    Watson A; Lupton D, 2022, 'What Happens Next? Using the Story Completion Method to Surface the Affects and Materialities of Digital Privacy Dilemmas', Sociological Research Online: an electronic journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13607804221084343
    Journal articles | 2022
    Watson A, 2022, 'The familiar strange of sociological fiction', Sociological Review, 70, pp. 723 - 732, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261221109031
    Journal articles | 2022
    Watson A, 2022, 'Writing sociological fiction', Qualitative Research, 22, pp. 337 - 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794120985677
    Journal articles | 2021
    Byron P; McKee A; Watson A; Litsou K; Ingham R, 2021, 'Reading for Realness: Porn Literacies, Digital Media, and Young People', Sexuality and Culture, 25, pp. 786 - 805, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-020-09794-6
    Journal articles | 2021
    Kirby E; Watson A; Churchill B; Robards B; LaRochelle L, 2021, 'Queering the Map: Stories of love, loss and (be)longing within a digital cartographic archive', Media, Culture & Society, 43, pp. 1043 - 1060, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443720986005
    Journal articles | 2021
    Watson A; Bennett A, 2021, 'The felt value of reading zines', American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 9, pp. 115 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41290-020-00108-9
    Journal articles | 2021
    Watson A; Clark M; Southerton C; Lupton D, 2021, 'Fieldwork at your fingertips: creative methods for social research under lockdown', Nature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00566-2
    Journal articles | 2021
    Watson A; Lupton D; Michael M, 2021, 'Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the COVID-19 crisis: the sociomaterialities of home-based communication technologies', Media International Australia, 178, pp. 136 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x20961568
    Journal articles | 2021
    Watson A; Lupton D; Michael M, 2021, 'The COVID digital home assemblage: Transforming the home into a work space during the crisis', Convergence, 27, pp. 1207 - 1221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13548565211030848
    Journal articles | 2021
    Watson A; Lupton D, 2021, 'Tactics, affects and agencies in digital privacy narratives: a story completion study', Online Information Review, 45, pp. 138 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-05-2020-0174
    Journal articles | 2021
    Watson A; Smartt Gullion J, 2021, 'Editorial: Fiction as Research – Writing Beyond the Boundary Lines', Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/issue/view/1947
    Journal articles | 2020
    Baker S; Buttigieg B; Cantillon Z; Pavlidis A; Rodriguez Castro L; Watson A, 2020, 'Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology: Analysis of a blended and flipped interactive workshop model', Journal of Sociology, pp. 144078332093418 - 144078332093418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783320934180
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lupton D; Watson A, 2020, 'Towards more-than-human digital data studies: developing research-creation methods', Qualitative Research, 21, pp. 463 - 480, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794120939235
    Journal articles | 2020
    Watson A, 2020, 'Methods Braiding: A Technique for Arts-Based and Mixed-Methods Research', Sociological Research Online, 25, pp. 66 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780419849437
    Journal articles | 2016
    Watson A, 2016, 'Directions for Public Sociology: Novel Writing as a Creative Approach', Cultural Sociology, 10, pp. 431 - 447, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975516639081
  • Reports | 2023
    Watson A; Wozniak-O'Connor V; Lupton D, 2023, Creative Approaches to Health Information Ecologies: Summary Report, UNSW Sydney and ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society., Sydney
    Creative Written Works | 2023
    Watson A, 2023, Bits/Bytes/Dreams, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://francesstreetpress.com/bits/
    Creative Written Works | 2023
    Watson A, 2023, So Fi Zine #13, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-13/
    Creative Written Works | 2022
    Watson A, 2022, So Fi Zine #10, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-10/
    Creative Written Works | 2022
    Watson A, 2022, So Fi Zine #11, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-11/
    Creative Written Works | 2022
    Watson A, 2022, So Fi Zine #12, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-12
    Creative Written Works | 2021
    Watson A, 2021, So Fi Zine #9, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-9/
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Robards B; Watson A; Kirby E; Churchill B; LaRochelle L, 2020, 'Queering the Map: Physical traces and digital places of queer lives', Dublin/Online, presented at Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference "Life", Dublin/Online, 26 October 2020 - 31 October 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11319
    Creative Written Works | 2020
    Watson A, 2020, Into the Sea, Brill, https://brill.com/view/title/57983
    Creative Written Works | 2020
    Watson A, 2020, So Fi Zine #7, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://sofizine.com/
    Creative Written Works | 2020
    Watson A, 2020, So Fi Zine #8, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-8/
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Watson A, 2019, So Fi Zine #5, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Watson A, 2019, So Fi Zine #6, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/
    Creative Written Works | 2018
    Watson A, 2018, So Fi Zine #3, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/
    Creative Written Works | 2018
    Watson A, 2018, So Fi Zine #4, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/
    Creative Written Works | 2017
    Watson A, 2017, So Fi Zine #1, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/
    Creative Written Works | 2017
    Watson A, 2017, So Fi Zine #2, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/

Endeavour Research Fellowship, 2017