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Professor Bridgette Wessels is Professor in the Sociology of Inequalities (Sociological & Cultural Studies) in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. She studied sociology and the sociology of culture at the Universities of Durham and York, earning a BA (Hons) in Sociology from Durham, an MA in Sociology of Contemporary Culture (ESRC-funded) from York in 1994, and a D.Phil. (ESRC-funded) from the University of Sussex in 2000 on the innovation and use of telematics. Following two post-doctoral research projects at the Universities of Durham and Newcastle, she held her first lecturing post at the University of Sheffield, advancing to Reader in Digital Sociology in 2014 and founding the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Socio-Digital Research (IRiS). She subsequently served as Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University before joining Glasgow as Professor of Social Inequality. At Glasgow, she founded the Glasgow Social and Digital Change Group, leads the College of Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Theme on Digital Society and Economy, co-leads the ESRC Productivity Institute's Scottish Forum, hosts Professor Jane Duncan's BA Global Professorship on state oversight and surveillance in Southern African countries, and is a founding member of the Digital Technology and Social Change hub in the European University Alliance CIVIS network. She is co-editor of Participations: journal of audience and reception studies and has secured substantial research funding from UKRI, EU, and other sources, managing large national and international teams.