Bjorn Nansen is a senior lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. He is a member of the Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) within the Faculty of Arts, and a member of the Microsoft Research Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces (SocialNUI) in the Faculty of Engineering.
His research focuses on emerging and marginal forms of digital media use in everyday life, using a mix of ethnographic, participatory and digital methods.
His current research projects explore changing home media infrastructures and environments, children’s mobile media and digital play practices, technologies for death and memorialising, and the digital mediation of sleep.
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Children's Active Video Games: Family Perceptions, Uses and Negotiations
Research Grant
Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how w..
NEWS ARTICLE
Young Children and Mobile Media Producing Digital Dexterity
Book
Disposal of the dead: beyond burial and cremation
Research Grant
Pixelating our playgrounds
NEWS ARTICLE
Young children's haptic media habitus
Book Chapter
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Projects
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Project Types
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Research Contracts
Additional Information
2017 ARC Discovery DP180103148, Disposal of the Dead: Beyond Burial and Cremation. CIs: Arnold, M, Kohn, T, Gibbs, M, Hallam, E, and Nansen, B. $292,000. 2018-2020. 2013 ARC Discovery DP140101871, Digital Commemoration. CIs: Arnold, M, Gibbs, M, Kohn, T, Nansen, B, and Hallam, E. $256,000. 2014-2106.
2012 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE130100735, Children’s Active Video Games: Family Perceptions, Uses and Negotiations. CI: Nansen, B. $365,000. 2013-2015.
2012 Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) Grants Scheme, Death and the Internet: Consumer Issues for Planning and Managing Digital Legacies and Data. CIs: Gibbs, M, Arnold, M, Kohn, T, and Nansen, B. $51,492.
2011 Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) Grants Scheme, High-Speed Broadband and Household Media Ecologies. CIs: Wilken, R, Arnold, M, Nansen, B, and Gibbs, R. $45,934.
Internal Grants
2012 Melbourne University Research Collaboration Grant, High-Speed Broadband and Home-Based Work. CIs: Arnold, M, Wilken, R, Gibbs, M, and Nansen, B. $20,000.
Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) Seed Funding Grant, Framing the NBN: Consumer Attitudes, Understandings and Perceptions. CIs: Gibbs, M, Arnold, M, Nansen, B, Wilken, R, and Coker, B. $49,991.
2011 Melbourne University Research Office Seed Funding Grant, SeeCare IPTV: Personalized Health Literacy Demonstrator. CIs: Gray, Clarke, Nansen, Tidhar, Goodwin, Hagger. $48,000.
2010 IBES Seed Funding Grant, Broadband in the Home: A Longitudinal Study. CIs: Arnold, M, Dave, B, Wilken, R, and Nansen, B. $40,091.
Melbourne University Research Office Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Grant, Screen Stories and Community Connections: How can technology promote community social inclusion? CIs: Nansen, B, Gibbs, L, Chakraborty, K, and Vetere, F. $28,875.
Scholarly Works
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Discovery early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
Best Paper Award: OzCHI Open 24_7 Conference, November 2009
Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship
Dwight Prize for Best Honours Student (awarded by the Department of English, University of Melbourne) 2004.
Digital media research fellow, Melbourne Networked Society Institute (MNSI)
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Snr Lecturer Media And Communications
Culture And Communication
Honorary
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
Member
International Communications Association (ICA)
Board Member
Digital Games Research Association Australia (DiGRAA)
Member
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
Member
ACM SIGCHI
Member
Australian Communications Consumer Action Network
Member
ARC Network in Human Communication Science
Member
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
Member
ARC Cultural Research Network
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts Honours
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts
Deakin University