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Shireen Walton completed her DPhil at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford in 2015. During her time there, she co-founded the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group (OxDEG). Her doctoral research focused on popular visual digital culture in Iran and the Iranian diaspora, particularly through photography and photoblogging. Following her doctorate, she engaged in postdoctoral research at University College London (UCL) Anthropology as part of the ERC-funded project ‘The Anthropology Smartphones Smart Ageing (ASSA)’. This project involved 16 months of urban-digital ethnographic research in Milan, Italy, where she explored the intersection of smartphones, migration, and experiences of ageing, health, and care. Her monograph based on this research, titled "Ageing Smartphones Urban Italy: Care Community Milan," was published open-access by UCL Press in 2021. Walton has also held lecturer positions at UCL and Goldsmiths, specializing in Digital Anthropology and Visual Anthropology respectively, and has convened the MA in Visual Anthropology. Her work continues to explore multimodal digital-visual methodologies within ethnographic research.
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