Heather Ford

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Professor, Communications, University of Technology Sydney Profile Articles Activity

Heather Ford is a writer, scholar and designer of public knowledge technologies. Her research focuses on the social implications of digital media technologies and the ways in which they might be better designed and regulated to prevent disinformation, social exclusion, and epistemic injustice. She was the first public lead for Creative Commons South Africa, a former advisory board member of the Wikimedia Foundation and an alumnus fellow of the Stanford Reuters Digital Entrepreneurship programme. Her work has been covered by Slate, the New Scientist, the BBC, ABC, Der Welt and the Financial Times. She currently works as an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney's School of Communications.

Experience

• 2025–present Professor, University of Technology Sydney
• 2019–2025 Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney
• 2018–2019 Senior lecturer, University of New South Wales
• 2015–2017 Fellow, University of Leeds
• 2011–2012 Ethnographer, Ushahidi
• 2010–2010 Policy Fellow, Google / Electronic Frontier Foundation
• 2006–2008 Executive Director, iCommons
• 2003–2004 Fellow, Reuters/Benetech Digital Vision Fellowship Programme
• 2002–2003 Project Manager, Association for Progressive Communications
• 2000–2002 Digital Information Manager, Electoral Institute of Southern Africa

Education

• 2015 University of Oxford, DPhil
• 2011 University of California Berkeley, MIMS
• 2002 University of the Witwatersrand, Telecommunications Policy, Regulation and Management Certificate
• 2000 Rhodes University, BJourn

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