Reem Talhouk
Biography
Reem Talhouk is an Assistant Professor in Design and Global Development at Northumbria University, where she also co-leads the ‘Design Feminisims’ and ‘MARGINALITIES’ research groups.
Reem contributes to teaching in Interaction Design, Communication Design and Multi-Disciplinary Innovation. She has also delivered teaching on the DCitizens Summer School and the Participatory Design Summer School. She has contributed chapters to several educational handbooks, including the Handbook on Humanitarian Inequality and the Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design.
Reem has led research at the intersection of design, technologies, and global development. She has conducted research with refugees, activists and humanitarians, and focused on the interplay between sociotechnical systems, digital civics, ontological security and mechanisms of oppression and resistance.
Publications
2024
Security Patchworking in Lebanon: Infrastructuring Across Failing Infrastructures Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 8, no. CSCW1, pp. 1–26, 2024.
Humanitarian technologies Book Section
In: Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality, pp. 308–322, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
Envisioning Collaborative Futures: Advancing the Frontiers of Embedded Research Journal Article
In: 2024.
DCitizens Roles Unveiled: SIG Navigating Identities in Digital Civics and the Spectrum of Societal Impact Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–5, 2024.
Participatory Design with Young Children: Failures, Challenges, and Successes Journal Article
In: 2024.
2023
Capturing children food exposure using wearable cameras and deep learning Journal Article
In: PLOS Digital Health, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. e0000211, 2023.
Diverse Migration Journeys and Security Practices: Engaging with Longitudinal Perspectives of Migration and (Digital) Security Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–7, 2023.
Re-articulating North-South Collaborations in HCI Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–4, 2023.
Othered, silenced and scapegoated: understanding the situated security of marginalised populations in Lebanon Proceedings Article
In: 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23), pp. 4625–4642, 2023.
Gender and Racism: Considerations for Digital Learning Among Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers Proceedings Article
In: IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 469–478, Springer Nature Switzerland Cham 2023.