Douglas Parry
Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDouglas Parry is an early-career researcher and Assistant Professor in Socio-Informatics with 11 years of teaching and research experience spanning Stellenbosch University and VU Amsterdam. He studies the interplay between digital technologies, human behaviour, and mental health, with specific expertise in media use measurement, digital wellbeing, self-regulated learning, and family media dynamics. Douglas routinely combines quantitative, qualitative, and computational methods, advocates open science, and has published in top outlets including Nature Human Behaviour and Journal of Communication. He also investigates future-of-work topics such as enterprise social media, remote agile practices, and cryptocurrency market dynamics, bringing applied insights from UX and Agile internships earlier in his career. Fluent in both production-oriented information systems and user-centered communication research, he blends software-development perspectives with communication science to tackle real-world socio-technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
Matric (NSC), Maths, Science, IT, Visual Arts, English, Afrikaans, Matric (NSC), Maths, Science, IT, Visual Arts, English, Afrikaans at Bishops Diocesan collegeHigh school Exchange, High school Exchange at Llandovery CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Socio Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Socio Informatics at Stellenbosch University
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (5)
computational-social-science10
science10
python10
jekyll3
github-pages2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dougaparry/rwc-prediction
Feb 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
dougaparry/Intro-to-R
May 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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