Arran Ridley

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Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Marketing and Digital Communications

E: arran.ridley@monash.edu

  • Accepting PhD students

Arran Ridley is an Assistant Professor in Marketing and Digital Communications, in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, Indonesia. He holds a PhD in Media and Communication from the University of Leeds, and a masters in Digital Media and Culture, from the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. Before joining Monash, he had experience as a researcher at the Urban Complexity Lab, located in the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in Germany, and at the VisHub Lab, located in the School for Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He also served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Generic Visuals in the News project at the University of Leeds.

Arran’s teaching experience has seen him teach on courses at the University of Warwick, University of Leeds, University of Edinburgh, and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Outside of his academic teaching work he also had 7 years experience of teaching art, design, and media courses in specialist and disability education.

His research interests include critical data studies, design studies, digital methods, and the study of data visualisation, from both a theoretical and practical point of view. He also has interest in low-carbon methodologies, digital and data literacies, data journalism and data storytelling. He has published several papers on topics related to digital methods, utilising data from Facebook and Reddit, and published a number of data-driven stories in outlets such as Kontinentalist. His academic work is listed on Google Scholar.

More information

  • Kauer, T., Dörk, M., Ridley, A. L., Bach, B. (2021, May). The public life of data: Investigating reactions to visualizations on reddit. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-12).
  • Geboers, M., Stolero, N., Scuttari, A., Van Vliet, L., Ridley, A. (2020). Why buttons matter: Repurposing Facebook’s reactions for analysis of the social visual. International Journal of Communication, 14, 1564-1585.
  • Ridley, A., Schöttler, S., Dadzie, A. S., Bach, B. (2020, October). The vistools marketplace: An activity to understand the landscape of visualisation tools. In IEEE VIS Workshop on Data Vis Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  • A. L. Ridley and C. Birchall. (2020). Evaluating data visualization: Broadening the measurements of success. In Data Visualization in Society, pp. 127–140. Amsterdam University Press.
  • Lee-Robbins, E., Ridley, A., Adar, E. (2024). Client-Designer Negotiation in Data Visualization Projects. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
  • Hadiprawoto, T. R., Ridley, A. L. (2023, April). Transparent Dashboards: Open data practices for promoting competition-as-motivation in business dashboards. In 2023 IEEE 16th Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis) (pp. 142-146). IEEE.

Teaching & Research Interest:

  • Data visualization
  • Critical data studies
  • Design studies
  • Digital methods
  • KONEKSI Collaborative Grants (2024-2026). Co-Principle Investigator for "SINTESIS: Study of Inclusive Technology and Empowerment Significance in Stunting Reduction," a project led by the Unit Kajian Gender dan Seksualitas, FISIP, Universitas Indonesia, in partnership with Yayasan Kesehatan Perempuan (YKP), and the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre. Co-Principal Investigators: Dr. Sari Ratri and Dr. Diana Pakasi.
  • TIFA Foundation Research Grant (2022). Co-researcher for "Digital Activism Campaign in Indonesia 2016-2021," with Dr. Muhammad Fajar and Dr. Yoes Kenawas at IFAR Atma Jaya, as well as Dr. Luthfi Adam at IFAR Monash Indonesia
  • Development Dialogue Asia Grant (2022) for Media and Climate Activism Campaign. Led researcher for grant-funded projects at Remotivi.
  • American Political Science Association Asia Workshop Grant (2021) – Dissertation travel research grant ($1,000).
  • American-Indonesian Cultural Educational Foundation (2021) – Dissertation travel research grant ($3,000).
  • Minar Memorial Summer Award, Northwestern University (2020, 2019, 2018) – Summer research grants ($750 each).
  • Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University (2019) – Pre-Dissertation Fieldwork summer research grant ($4,000).
  • War and Society Working Group Grant, Buffett Institute (2018) – Archival research grant ($1,000).
  • Bronze award winner in the digital category, Society for News Design Best of News Design Creative Competition, 2024.
  • Best speaker in Data, Communication and New Technologies Pathway, White Rose Doctoral Training Program (WRDTP) 8th Annual Conference, 2019.