Daniela is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Culture, Communications and Media at the Institute of Education (University of London), as well as an Information Designer at Dorling Kindersley Publishing, where she designs science books for young adults.

Daniela’s current research interest is the Social Shaping of technologies of security and surveillance in schools, with a focus on ethics. Daniela’s approach to social science research continues and draws on her multidisciplinary background in Design (BA Hons) and Media & Communications Studies (MA).

Until 2010, Daniela designed and co-ordinated a number of art-based ‘sousveillance’ projects, both nationally and internationally. She envisioned surveillance technology from a bottom-up perspective and engaged social constituencies in activities around the use of personal data within local development. Daniela worked on the widely acclaimed Bio-Mapping, and Sensing the Future of Hedehusene (DK, 2010), Bijlmer Euro (NL 2010), the Brentford Biopsy (UK, 2008), and the Stockport Emotion Map (2007).

In 2009, Daniela worked as Research Assistant at the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and the Media (Department of Culture, Communications and the Media, Institute of Education, University of London), on the projects Civic-Web:Young People, the Internet and Civic Participation (project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Program), and Learners and Technology (project funded by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) investigating issues around citizens, learners and governance in a knowledge-based society.

Daniela is keen to bring to social research her expertise in visual and multimodal methods. In 2011, Daniela was awarded a scholarship by the Waseda University in Tokyo (Japan) to conduct a cross-cultural empirical research on students’ perceptions of schools’ security in Japan and UK through the use of drawing-based methods.

Contact: daniela@softhook.com