Julia’s research focuses on how cybersecurity concepts and practices can better serve targets of technologically-mediated abuse. She is also exploring how feminist theories and methodology—such as participatory action research and ethics of care—can improve cybersecurity. Previously, she completed the MSc in Social Science of the Internet on the role of metaphors in international cybersecurity policy. Before joining the OII, Julia worked on an LSE Law project on comparative regional integration and coordinated a course on Economics in Foreign Policy for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She also works as a freelance photographer.
Julia is a member of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security at Oxford.
Reconfigure is a feminist cybersecurity project that uses community-based participatory methods and feminist approaches to reconfigure cybersecurity research and build public capacity for data privacy and action.
By Julia Slupska, Scarlet Dawson Duckworth, Gina Neff, Nayana Prakash, Selina Cho, Linda Ma, Laura Shepherd, Hayyu Imanda, Hubert Au, Antonella Perini, and Romy Minko
The discourse around cybersecurity can often seem academic and exclusive. The Reconfigure project aims to build a feminist alternative and this report sets out findings from a pilot study applying “action research” methods to cybersecurity questions.
The Guardian, 19 October 2022
Mia Landsem, whose ex spread an intimate photo of her online, now spends hours each day helping others get images removed.
The Conversation, 06 July 2022
After the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US, tracking reproductive information has never been riskier. In many US states, millions seeking and providing abortions could soon face criminal charges.
Equal Times, 23 February 2022
The European-wide battle to crack down on revenge porn.
