University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
About the Speaker
Professor Kay O’Halloran is Chair Professor, Head of the Department of Communication and Media (2019–present) and Co-Director of the Digital Media & Society Institute (2023—present) at the University of Liverpool. Her research area is multimodal analysis involving the study of language, images and other resources in texts, interactions and events. She has a specific interest in multimodal and visual literacies, particularly in mathematical and scientific discourse. Over the past two decades, she has focused on the development and use of digital tools and techniques for multimodal analysis and mixed methods approaches to big data analytics of digital communications. Her current research involves context-based information fusion approaches for analysing online and social media.