Dr Ewan Soubutts

About

Dr Ewan Soubutts is a Departmental Lecturer at the Oxford Internet Institute, specialising in human-centered computing and digital health. He also holds Honorary Research Fellow positions at the UCL Interaction Centre and Bristol Interaction Group in the UK. Dr Soubutts studies the intersection of technology within and between age groups in society, looking at how people provide support that is mediated via digital communication tools like smart speakers and wellness apps, allowing for individual and collective understandings of technology adoption, digital health and care challenges (such as life transitions) and information acquisition over the internet.

Dr Soubutts takes a mixed-methods approach to understanding people in human-centered studies, exploring this intersection of life stages and technology through a variety of approaches. His research has covered topics such as LGBT+ older adults’ social media marginalisation experiences, minority ethnic young people’s digital mental health needs, older people’s use of personal finance and energy technology in the cost of living crisis and, most recently, how AI-enabled social agents can empower families to provide care for one another.