Dr Ash Watson
Scientia Fellow (Level C)
Doctor of Philosophy, 2018
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
Centre for Social Research in Health
Dr Ash Watson is a Scientia Fellow and Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney.
Her research explores the intersection of digital technology and social life.
She writes on various topics such as artificial intelligence, civic cultural spaces like archives and libraries, digital futures, belonging, maps, literature, the COVID pandemic, DIY, and more. She has held a number of visiting and affiliate positions including with the University of Glasgow in 2025, the ESRC Centre for SocioDigital Futures at the University of Bristol in 2023, and as an Endeavour Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017. Ash is Fiction Editor of The Sociological Review. She is an invited Editorial Board Member of Qualitative Research, Journal of Sociology, and DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society. Her debut novel Into the Sea was published by Brill in 2020. She runs the independent zine publisher Frances St Press and is the creator/editor of So Fi Zine, an open-access publication for experiments in social inquiry.
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Long P, Watson A, Alizadeh A, Homan S and Bartindale T (2024-2026) Mapping Australian Homemade, Amateur & Do-it-Yourself Cultural Economies. Australian Research Council Discovery Project [DP240102301]. $561,545.00.
Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Government, 2017. Undertaken at Goldsmiths, University of London.
My Research Supervision
Cecily Klim. PhD candidate, Centre for Social Research in Health. "Coming to and from the senses: an embodied approach to experiences of contraception."
Mania Alehpour. PhD candidate, School of the Arts and Media. "How adolescents are constructing their digital culture; a sociocultural perspective."