Hi, I’m temi

I wear a few hats: the first is as an AHRC/LAHP-funded PhD candidate at King’s College London, researching Black women’s digital intimacy.

I recently completed a Fellowship at the Centre of Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), and in 2023, I was the inaugural research curator-in-residence at FACT. From 2022-2023, I was the Associate Editor at Networking Knowledge, the postgraduate journal of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA). I am a Centre of Digital Policy member at University College Dublin.

I make use of an interpretivist, critical and transdisciplinary research philosophy. My research interests are digital intimacies and Blackness, race, gender and communication on social media, social media subcultures and diaspora, and online relationality. My PhD thesis uses a Black feminist framework to explore and investigate the experiences of Black women on the Internet(s). I have an MA (Distinction) in Digital Media and Society (Cardiff University), for which I won the Best MA Dissertation award (2022). I received my BA (Honours) in English Literature and Language (Queen’s University) in 2011.

Before returning to academia, I worked for various civil society organisations in the tech policy and digital rights sector. Roles I’ve held include Senior Campaigner at Digital Action, Interim Executive Director at Global Citizen Foundation, Social Media Specialist at Mozilla Foundation, and co-communications Lead at Whose Knowledge? I have also worked as a freelance consultant for organisations such as Glitch, EDRi, and Luminate.

In my previous life, I worked for seven years in digital advertising and marketing at Group M and Grey Group agencies in the UK and Australia, where I specialised in digital strategy across paid and organic social media.

Altogether, my work seeks to reimagine and move towards equitable and joyful futures for Black folk.