Celia Lury holds a PhD and a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Manchester. She is currently the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, which she also founded, and where she serves as a faculty member and researcher.
Her work focuses on how “live methods” are used to represent social worlds, drawing on an interdisciplinary approach that integrates feminist and cultural theory, the sociology of culture, consumer culture, and algorithmic processes.
Lury explores the ways in which live methods contribute to the enactment of social worlds. Her current research examines the roles of practices such as classification, optimization, and biodetection in shaping a topological culture.