Dr Ash Watson

Dr Ash Watson is a sociologist and Scientia Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney. Her research examines how emergent digital technologies impact people's sense of belonging, wellbeing and inclusion in society.

Ash has an international profile for her innovative methodological scholarship which unites qualitative, creative and digital sociological methods. She is an invited Editorial Board Member of Qualitative Research and Fiction Editor of The Sociological Review. She leads the creative project So Fi Zine, an open-access publication for experiments in social inquiry as flash fiction, poetry and visual art. Her debut novel Into the Sea was published by Brill in 2020. She makes zines at Frances St Press.