About

Dr. Stacey Pitsilides is a Senior Research Fellow at Northumbria University. She has curated various events for public engagement around death and technology and collaborated with Hospices, introducing co-design as a method to artistically work with the bereaved. Her research has featured in a range of festivals including Death: The Southbank Centre's Festival for the Living, The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, Internet Week Europe, FutureFest, the Edinburgh International Science Festival, the Southbank Centre’s Beyond Belief Festival and Dying Matters Week. She is the editor of a special issue on Networked Emotions for the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media and been consulted by tech companies, such as Google, during their development of new digital legacy tools.

• DORS (Death Online Research Symposium)
• BDS (Body>Data>Space collective)
• DIGMEX network
• The Thursday Club Goldsmiths Digital Studios
• ASDS (The Association for the Study of Death and Society)

Selected Press & Interviews

• BBC Asian Network [radio]: What Happens to Our Social Media When We Die? 24th July 2018
• Esquire: Do we ever really die online? 4th May 2018
• The Herald: Digital legacy is changing finality of death, says internet expert to Edinburgh International Science Festival. 9th Mar 2017
• Quartz: How I learned to live forever. 7th Oct 2016
• Culture File: Love After Death at FutureFest, 2016
• BBC Radio 4, The Digital Human, 6th October 2012
• Radio New Zealand National, This Way Up: Digital Death, 19th November 2011
• Ta Nea [Greek National Newspaper], Ψηφιακά αθάνατοι στο Ιντερνετ. Digital immortal on the Internet, 14th February 2011
• New York Times Magazine: Cyberspace After Your Dead: Rob Walker, 5th Jan 2011
• BBC, Radio 5: Outriders: Live, die, remix, 5th October 2010