Dr Samantha Mannix is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on Professor Kath Albury’s Future Fellowship Project ‘Digital and Data literacies for sexual health policy and practice’ (2022-2026). She is an Affiliate of the Swinburne Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).

Samantha has a public health background, with professional experience in the fields of sexual health and the prevention of gender based violence. Her doctoral research in Education, awarded in 2022, explored the ways school-aged young people come to understand and experience their intimate and dating relationships through schooling and digital practices. She is particularly interested in the ways young people make sense of their participation in digital sexual cultures, and how this has the potential to shift and shape norms, understandings and possibilities for gender, sexuality and relationships.