Staff profile

Briony Anderson (she/her) is a Career Development Fellow (Criminology) in the Department of Sociology at Durham. Before joining Durham, she completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2024. Her doctoral research explores how doxxing, the non-consensual disclosure of personal, identifying, and sensitive information, harms victim-survivors in gendered, relational, and sensorial ways. 

Research Area

Briony is a digital criminologist specialising in privacy abuse, gendered-harms, and technology-facilitated violence and abuse. She uses narrative, creative interviewing and critical techno-cultural discourse analysis to consider how technologies contour experiences of digital abuse, as well as the capacity to resist against them. Briony engages posthumanist and new materialist theoretical frameworks in her work with victim-survivors, and is interested in feminist and queer pedagogies of research and praxis. She also researches on police-perpetrated domestic and family violence, with a focus on the role of independent commissions of inquiry in addressing systemic violence. 

Teaching

• Crime, Justice and the Sex Industry
• Introduction to Criminological Theory
• Critical Scholarship in Social Sciences

Chapter in book

• Anderson, B., & Wood, M. A. (2021). Doxxing: A Scoping Review and Typology. In J. Bailey, A. Flynn, & N. Henry (Eds.), The Emerald International Handbook of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse (205-226). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-848-520211015

Journal Article

• Mitchell, M., Wood, J., O’Neill, T., Wood, M., Pervan, F., Anderson, B., & Arpke-Wales, W. (online). Technology-facilitated violence: A conceptual review. Criminology & Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221140549
• Wood, M. A., Mitchell, M., Pervan, F., Anderson, B., O’Neill, T., Wood, J., & Arpke-Wales, W. (2023). Inviting, Affording and Translating Harm: Understanding the Role of Technological Mediation in Technology-Facilitated Violence. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 63(6), 1384-1404. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac095
• Anderson, B., & Wood, M. A. (2022). Harm Imbrication and Virtualised Violence: Reconceptualising the Harms of Doxxing. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 11(1), 196-209. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2140
• Wood, M. A., Anderson, B., & Richards, I. (2021). Notes on ultra-realism: A response to Raymen and Kuldova. Continental Thought & Theory, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.26021/10688
• Wood, M. A., Anderson, B., & Richards, I. (2020). Breaking Down the Pseudo-Pacification Process: Eight Critiques of Ultra-Realist Crime Causation Theory. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 60(3), 642-661. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz069