Nic Bidwell

Nic Bidwell currently researches the social and gender impacts of Community Networks in the APC's Local Networks Project. She is an adjunct Professor at the International University of Management, Namibia and a research associate with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre. Nic's research, in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and socio-technical aspects of ICT, focuses on the perspectives of marginalised people, and for the past ten years has been based in Africa. She has well over 100 peer-reviewed publications, in books, journals and prestige conferences and a co-edited book, and is recognised for founding platforms that promote the international visibility of indigenous and African researchers.

Education

• MInfTech The University of Queensland (2000 — 2001)
• PhD Queen Mary, U. of London (1989 — 1992)
• BSc(Hons) University of Stirling (1984 — 1988)

Companies

• Assoc Prof Aalborg University (2021)
• Professor The International University of Management (IUM) (2018)
• Advisor Association for Progressive Communications (2017)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor RMIT University (2012)
• Associate Professor (Honorary) Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (2010)
• Professor University of Pretoria (2013 — 2018)
• Professor of Computer Science (HCI) University of Namibia (2014 — 2017)
• Principal Researcher Meraka, CSIR, South Africa (2010 — 2013)
• Visiting Professor Polytechnic of Namibia (2009 — 2012)