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A/ProfBhuva Narayan

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Associate Professor And FASS Academic HDR Coordinator

Discipline of Digital and Social Media

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  • Associate Professor And FASS Academic HDR Coordinator
    Discipline of Digital and Social Media
  • 295142718 Ext.2718 (Work)
  • University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Communication, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia
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BIO

Bhuva Narayan is Associate Professor, Digital Social Media in the School of Communication, Faculty of Design and Society.

Bhuva is a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary researcher across Information Science, Digital Media Studies, and Social Sciences, with additional expertise in Literature, User Experience, Human-computer Interaction, and Design Thinking, and applies this expertise in the context of social justice and equity issues. Bhuva's work is informed by digital humanities, documentation studies, and information science -- she is particularly interested in the diverse contexts of human societies, and how they shape information, and how we can make digital information technologies safe, pro-human, pro-social, and environmentally sustainable.


Bhuva's teaching and research interests are in the field of Human Learning, Human Information Interaction and Human Information Behaviour (on how humans need, seek, find, organise, and use information, both online and in everyday life) including Digital Social Media and GenAI. 

 

Bhuva uses qualitative and ethnographic approaches in her research including digital ethnography methods, and works toward a research-teaching nexus in all her academic endeavours.

Before moving to academia, Bhuva spent over two decades in the book industry as a bookstore consultant, development editor, and publisher, and remains a proselytiser for books and learning in all forms.

Bhuva has supervised graduate resaerch students in interdisciplinary areas of Social Sciences and Communication including Digital Social Media, Data Ethics, Voice User Interfaces, Digital Privacy, Design Thinking, Creative Practice, Practice-led Research, Social Justice and Human Rights. 

Bhuva is Category 1 supervisor and able to supervise Honours, Masters by Research, PhD and Post-docs as Lead Supervisor.


Bhuva was awarded the UTS Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award for Supervisor of the Year 2020. Bhuva was the sole UTS Nominee for the Australian Council for Graduate Research's ACGR Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision in 2021.

 

Bhuva served as the Coordinator of Graduate Research for the School of Communication from 2019-21 and as the Director of Graduate Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 2022-2026.

 

Bhuva also served on the Judging Panel for the Australian Museum's Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Researchers from 2022-24.

 

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia1 Jan 2021 - present
  • Director, Graduate Research
    University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Design and Society, Sydney, Australia1 Mar 2025 - 15 Mar 2026
  • Director, Graduate Research
    University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia1 Jan 2022 - 28 Feb 2025
  • Faculty Graduate Research (HDR) Coordinator
    University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia1 Feb 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
  • Graduate Research Coordinator
    University of Technology Sydney, School of Communication, Sydney, Australia1 Jun 2019 - 31 Jan 2021
  • Senior Lecturer
    University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia1 Jul 2015 - 31 Dec 2020
  • Discipline/ Course Coordinator
    University of Technology Sydney, Information and Knowledge Management Programme, Sydney, Australia1 Jul 2013 - 30 Jun 2022
  • Lecturer
    University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia1 Jun 2012 - 30 Jun 2015

MEDIA

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Visiting Scholar
    Drexel University, School of Computing and Informatics, Philadelphia, United States16 Oct 2023 - 23 Oct 2023
  • Visiting Fellow
    Stanford University, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford, United States15 Oct 2018 - 15 Dec 2018
  • Visiting Fellow
    University of California Berkeley, UC Berkeley School of Information, United States15 Oct 2018 - 15 Dec 2018
  • Visiting Fellow
    Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand1 Jan 2018 - 1 Jan 2018
  • Visiting Professor
    University of Tsukuba, Japan, Research Centre for Knowledge Communities, Tsukuba, Japan6 Nov 2014 - 15 Feb 2015
  • Visiting Scholar
    Queensland University of Technology, Science and Engineering Faculty, Brisbane, Australia1 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2013
  • Visiting Professor
    Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China1 Jan 2012 - 1 Jan 2012

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Hindi
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Tamil
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Telugu
    Can speak and understand
  • Urdu
    Can speak and understand

UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 4 Quality Education
  • 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 10 Reduced Inequalities

PROFILE TYPE

  • Academic

AVAILABILITY

  • Career advice
  • Collaborative projects
  • Industry Projects
  • Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Media enquiries
  • Membership of an advisory committee
  • Mentoring (long-term)
  • Mentoring (short-term)

DISCIPLINES