Dr P M Krafft
Job Title
Lecturer in Computational Sociology; Co-Director, MSc Digital Sociology
Research interests
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Methods
- Race and decolonial thought
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Studies of information and communication technology
- Work & Economy
Background
Dr Peaks Krafft (they/them) is Lecturer in Computational Sociology and Co-Director of the MSc Digital Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining Edinburgh, Dr Peaks launched the University of the Arts London's MA Internet Equalities and before that lectured in Social Data Science at the University of Oxford Internet Institute. Dr Krafft received their PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2017 and undertook postdoctoral work at the University of Washington Information School, the University of California Berkeley Department of Psychology, and the Data & Society Research Institute. Their publications cross AI, cognitive science, science & technology studies, communications, and sociology.