Personal Statement
Jeanette D'Arcy is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, where her work focuses on digital inequalities and marginalised populations. Projects include the Minimum Digital Living Standard and work on the use of smart data for research, as well as past work exploring the digital lives of adults with lived experience of modern slavery and children with disabilities. She has completed policy-facing projects funded by bodies such as the British Academy, Ofcom, and Greater Manchester Combined Authority. She co-led, together with Good Things Foundation, a project examining the experiences of 'public sector pioneers' in implementing reuse, recycling and donation schemes for digital technologies, and is now part of the DSIT Advisory Working Group for a new responsible device donation charter. Research interests include: digital, media, communications, feminism, performance, adaptation, gothic.

Research Overview
Jeanette D'Arcy has eclectic and interdisciplinary research interests in the areas of digital inequalities and marginalised communities, intersectional feminism, education, media & performance.