Kath Hughes is a researcher and Lecturer in Visual Culture at the University of the West of England (UWE). Her doctoral scholarship research critiqued the biopolitical implications of popular contemporary self-tracking practices and how our embodied lives are becoming increasingly entangled in digitally-mediated online cultures through biometric wearable devices.

Her research has been disseminated in the UK and internationally, and developed into a supra-curricular Arts & Humanities course (‘Self-Surveillance in the Digital Age: Is digital self-tracking good for our health?’), for The Brilliant Club university-access education charity. 

Kath is a recent recipient of a DCRC x Immersive Arts Fellowship, to co-lead a collaborative research project with digital artist Daniel Bacchus, which will rethink the biometric data stories that our bodies can tell in digitally-mediated immersive XR environments.