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Staff Profile

Dr Clara Crivellaro

Senior Research Fellow

Background

I am Senior Research Fellow in Digital Local Democracy. My fellowship explores how we can design and implement digital technologies and services in a way that advance democratic practices, equity and social justice in our digital societies. To do this, I collaborate closely with civil society and organisations from the public sector, third sector and industry on various projects exploring the potential and ethical aspects of civic technologies designs to deliver public benefit.


I am Principal Investigator for Not-Equal, the EPSRC Network on Social Justice through the Digital Economy (2018-2021). I am Co-Investigator for the H2020 Generative European Urban Commons, gE.CO (2019-2022) and a member of OLAthens, a non-for profit organization that supports social innovation in Greece; and co-investigator in the EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens - Next Stage Digital Economy Centre (2020-2025).


Before starting the research fellowship, I was a post-doc at Open Lab working on the EPSRC funded MyPlace project. I obtained my PhD in Computing at Newcastle University. My thesis explored the role of technology and design to support forms of social activism in the everyday politics of place.


Before joining academia, I worked as a Socially Engaged Art practitioner on various initiatives and projects in creative industries and third sector. I have an MA in Curatorial practice and a BA in Arts & Design.

Research

Research Awards

  • Centre for Digital Citizens - Next Stage Digital Economy Centre. (Co-I) 10/2020-09/2025. EPSRC. EP/T022582/1. (£3,797,252)
  • Social Justice through the Digital Economy Network . (PI) 07/2018-06/2021. EPSRC. EP/R044929/1.  (£1,006,664).
  • gECO: Generative European Commons Living Labs. (Co-I) 02/2019 – 01/2022. H2020. (€995 810).
  • ESRC Nine DTP Studentship in Artificial Intelligence and Health. (Co-I with Prof Simon Forrest, Durham University). 01/2019-01/2022
  • EPSRC Digital Economy Research Centre (Co-I). 11/2018 – 10/2020. EPSRC. EP/M023001/. (£4,051,357).


PhD supervision


  • Peter Glick – Newcastle University, Designing digital tools to support the management of Personal Health Budgets
  • Bobbie Bailey – Newcastle University, Digital materialisation of Urban Imaginaries (2022)
  • Mohaan Biswas – Newcastle University, Trade Unions in the digital era (2022)
  • Ashleigh Alderson – Newcastle University, AI and Health information seeking online (2022)
  • Agata Jalosinska – Newcastle University, Data and Environment, (2022)
  • Sebastian Prost - Newcastle University, Infrastructuring food democracy (2021)
  • Jennifer Manuel - Newcastle University, Re-Designing Planning Policy Processes and Embedding Technology: The Case of Neighbourhood Planning (2021)
  • Stuart Nicholson - Newcastle University, Designing sustainable community interfaces (2021) 
  • Alexander Wilson – Newcastle University (2020), Technology-enabled planning participation (complete)
  • Daniel William Lambton-Howard – Newcastle University (2020), Designing Large-Scale Engagements on WhatsApp (complete)

Teaching

I have experience teaching a range of HCI module primarily at Master level and giving invited seminars and lectures about my research.  


  • CSC8601 — Systems and Societies, MSc HCI, School of Computing, Newcastle University, 2020-2021, (Module leader)
  • CSC8601 -- Introduction to Digital Civics, Mres in Digital Civics, School of Computing, Newcastle University, 2017-9, (Lecturer)
  • CSC8608 – IxD, Mres in Digital Civics, School of Computing, Newcastle University, 2017-9, (Lecturer)
  • CSC8607 – Research Methods, Mres in Digital Civics, School of Computing, Newcastle University, 2018-9, (Lecturer)
Publications