Hepworth Hepworth
Senior Research Fellow at Adelaide University
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolHepworth Hepworth is a Senior Research Fellow and interdisciplinary scholar with 11 years’ experience translating complex ideas and big data into accessible, ethically grounded visual stories. Combining a PhD in interdisciplinary graphic design and political science history with practical communication-design training, they research visualization effectiveness, the histories of design and power, and the ethics of data-driven UX across design studies, HCI, and STEM education. A community-oriented public intellectual, Hepworth has secured funding from NEH, IMLS, Arnold Ventures, NASA and NSF and routinely consults, speaks, and runs workshops to help institutions and startups improve high-stakes data communication. They mentor the next generation of researchers and practitioners, pairing reflective career coaching with hands-on pedagogical guidance, and bring lived experience to meet diverse audiences where they are. An unusual strength is blending experimental historical scholarship with pragmatic visual-design practice to surface how past communication choices shape present ethical dilemmas.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Political Economy, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Political Economy at University of AdelaideDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Interdisciplinary Graphic Design and Political Science History, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Interdisciplinary Graphic Design and Political Science History at Swinburne University of TechnologyGraduate Diploma Graphic Design, Graduate Diploma Graphic Design at RMIT University
Github Skills (44)
digital-humanities9
prestashop9
php9
timelinejs9
medium9
prestashop-module8
github-desktop8
google-chrome8
php-framework8
commerce8
opencart8
typescript8
cms8
thunderbird8
ecommerce8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kathep/ethics
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
A method for ethically visualizing data. Originally developed for big data and medium data contexts in the digital humanities, it is currently also being used by tech startups, and for visualization of broader impacts by research groups for the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Contributions:1 release, 786 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
groupsdata-sciencedata-processingsocial-scienceshumanities
unr-ndad/empire
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Public documentation of the Planning Workshop "Ethical Visualization in the Age of Big Data". This project is supported by the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Contributions:1 release, 89 pushes, 1 tag in 2 months
visualizationnationalagedata-scienceworkshop
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