Why subscribe?

You’ll receive a short sharp, (mostly) bi-weekly list on the politics & law of digital technologies in mental healthcare. Here’s a sample.

Who am I?

I’m a socio-legal academic at the @MSEI_unimelb & @MelbLawSchool & I’m currently a Mozilla Fellow for '19-20. My research investigates the use of AI, machine learning and other algorithmic technologies in efforts to address mental distress, crisis, addiction, mental health conditions & disability.

My own work explores the obligations (legal and non-legal) of those who are designing & deploying algorithmic and digital systems, and the rights of user-subjects, and how those obligations and rights can be protected and enforced.

But the newsletter is more general. So far, it’s included things like Google slurping health data, Elon Musk proposing brain-microchips that ‘solve’ autism, surveillance of students to detect mental distress, ‘machine-counsellors’ and mental health chatbots, and more. I am experimenting with this newsletter as a step toward open scholarship practices. The aim is to share my research materials - including news and secondary research that informs my work - in a brief, accessible way.