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Matt Marshall

Matt Marshall

Digital Civics Doctoral Trainee

m.marshall@newcastle.ac.uk

Bio Publications

I have a background in computer science where I focused on security and interaction design. My work in digital civics centres around charities, transparency, accountability, and open data. I am interested in producing technologies for charities to produce, collect, and present data about their work and their spending as a way to let them re-frame the dialogue around financial transparency in their favour. I have an interest in ethnographic methods and I like to take a fieldwork approach to my research, so I work very closely with the organisations that I study on a daily basis.

I like to build web and mobile technologies, as I see these as very flexible and having a relatively low barrier to entry for people to adopt and re-appropriate for their own use. I’m incredibly passionate about free software (e.g. GNU, GPL) and developing technologies that are communal property instead of privately licensed, which I’m hoping will come through in my research. I am also fairly anti-platform, and prefer to build tools which can be appropriated and used individually without commitment to a central service.

Outside of research I dedicate a lot of time to physical training, cooking, and arguing about political economy.

2018

Accountability work: Examining the values, technologies and work practices that facilitate transparency in Charities

Marshall M Vines J Wright P Kirk DS Lowe T Wilson R

2018 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Open website 10.1145/3173574.3173849

Untold stories: Working with third sector organisations

Strohmayer A Marshall M Verma N Bopp C McNaney R Voida A Kirk DS Bidwell NJ

2018 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Open website 10.1145/3170427.3170608

2017

Reflexive Practices for the Future of Design Education: An Exercise in Ethno-Empathy

Brueggemann MJ Strohmayer A Marshall M Birbeck N Thomas V

2017 – The Design Journal

Open website 10.1080/14606925.2017.1352655

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