Leah Davina Junck

2025-09-17 10:07:53

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

Honorary Research Fellow of The Ethics Lab, University of Cape Town

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I'm social anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) for which I conducted research on the dating application Tinder. Currently, I'm holding a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at UCT. I previously worked as a journalist in Germany and at the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division of the University of KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), where I conducted policy-oriented health research. My interests include the social impacts of digital technologies, the ethics of Artificial Intelligence, identity and migration as well as gender and minority rights. Furthermore, I am actively involved in the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, the Network for Digital Humanities in Africa and write for the South African Young Academy of Science.

Experience

–present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town

Education

2021 University of Cape Town, PhD Social Anthropology

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