Dr Ceren Yuksel

Biography

Ceren is Senior Lecturer and MA Internet Equalities Course Leader at the UAL Creative Computing Institute, with background in digital humanities, humanitarian data and communication systems.

Before joining academia in 2019, Ceren pursued a career as a humanitarian professional for 15 years, primarily with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in multiple forced displacement settings. She spearheaded data and technology related projects and initiatives ranging from local to global scales such as the global refugee data analytics and reporting tool, community-based paralegal and legal aid mapping system to end statelessness, and the Community of Practice for Data.

Building on her former career, she now uses creative computation to challenge hierarchical and normative data paradigms in the humanitarian sector as a hybrid theory/practice scholar and compulsive collaborator. Her research interests lie in critical data studies, participatory design, digital archiving, data and technology literacy, and feminist technology. She is the creator of Refugee Data Minder, a digital archive raising questions on the misplaced accountability in international refugee protection by housing narratives of injustices and rights violations unaccounted for in data and is also a contributor to Full Stack Feminist Toolkit, a resource for feminist approaches to technology and data. She holds a master’s degree in Refugee Studies from the University of East London and doctoral degree in Creative and Critical Practice from the School of Media, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Sussex.