Recent Sociology graduate, Dr Clare Southerton, is packing her bags for a move to scandinavia after accepting a postdoctoral position at the Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark.

Dr Southerton completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the ANU, before graduating with a PhD in December 2017. Her doctoral thesis examined the habitual practices of mobile digital device users, drawing on new materialist theory to explore the relations between digital objects and users.

Since graduating, Clare has worked with Prof Mary Lou Rasmussen in the School of Sociology, collaborating on the Queer Generations and Australia’s Generation Zs ARC projects.

Dr Southerton will commence her new role in Aarhus University's School of Communication and Culture on 1st September. Her first project will be working on a the Childhood, Intimacy and Surveillance Practices project, which nvestigates the role of digital technologies in familial relations and everyday family life, especially children’s lives at home and in school.

We wish Clare all the best in her future endeavours.