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Funding, awards, memberships

2024-2027
(Membership)

2025  - 
(Funding: seed project
$20,000)

2025 - 
(Funding: seed project
$20,000)

2025 - 
(Funding: seed project
$20,000)

2025 -
(Membership)

Postdoctoral member ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S)

Seed project ($20,000): 'Inclusive AI for Dyslexic Learners: Investigating Needs, Experiences, and Perceptions of AI through Online Forums
This project investigates the learning challenges of dyslexic learners, their perceptions of AI, and the roles of AI tools in supporting education.
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Seed project ($20,000): Tactical Tech Collaboration: Entanglements of data, people, robotics, surveillance and power
This project involves collaboration with the international technology literacy and advocacy organisation Tactical Tech, focused on the entanglements of data, people, robotics, surveillance, and power, mapped through a focus on Google and Amazon
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Seed project ($20,000): CONNECT - Digital Inclusion for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Seniors
This project explores how digital mentoring can support culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) seniors in building  digital and financial confidence in response to  AI scams, fraud, and other digital barriers.
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Associate member Social Innovation Research Institute (SIRI), Swinburne University 

2025  
(Award:
ODTA nomination) 

Recipient of two examiner nominations for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (ODTA)  (annual award recognising the top 5% of doctoral thesis).​

2021-2024 
Scholarship: 3.5 year

PhD Scholarship recipient of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S). 

2024
(Award:
ICA best paper)

International Communications Association (ICA) Top Paper award for Intergroup Communications Interest Group;:   
Dehghan, E., Kasianenko, K., Carlon, D., & Nagappa, A. (2024). A Culture War without a Battlefront: Sedimented Polarisation across Political Subreddits. International Communications Association

2021-2024 
(Membership)

Student membership ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S). 

2022
(Award:
ADM+S  Essay Prize $2000)

Inaugural winner of the 2022 Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) Essay Prize for the paper Bots as more than human

2019
(Award)

Griffith Award for Academic Excellence, Griffith University 2019 

2018
(Award)

2005 
(Scholarship: $10,000)

University of Wollongong Residential Scholarship for academic excellence and all round achievement

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