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
2023
Centering Refugees, Migrants, and Asylum Seekers Experiences in Digitalization and Datafication Journal Article
In: 2023.
Becoming Western: Reflections and Stories of Being in Western Academia Book Section
In: Torn Many Ways: Politics, Conflict and Emotion in Research, pp. 187–198, Springer International Publishing Cham, 2023.
Young Palestinians’ struggles for accountability and participation: beyond formal systems and public resistance Journal Article
In: Journal of the British Academy, vol. 11, no. s3, pp. 201–224, 2023.
Coping techniques and strategies for pursuing anti-racism within academe: a collective autoethnographic account from minoritised academics in the UK Journal Article
In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 2023.
2022
Towards a conceptual framework for understanding the challenges in refugee re-settlement Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction, vol. 6, no. GROUP, pp. 1–27, 2022.
Refugee food insecurity & technology: Surfacing experiences of adaptation, navigation, negotiation and sharing Journal Article
In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 341–372, 2022.
Social Agriculture: Examining the Affordances of Social Media for Agricultural Practices Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, pp. 476–489, 2022.
Decolonising in, by and through participatory design with political activists in Palestine Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022-Volume 1, pp. 36–49, 2022.
Dialogues on Decolonial Participatory Design Praxis During a Revolution Proceedings Article
In: Participatory Design Conference 2022, ACM 2022.
Assets and community engagement: A roundtable with HCI researchers and designers Journal Article
In: Interactions, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 44–47, 2022.