Professor Celia Lury FBA

Summary

Celia Lury is a Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. The Centre’s emphasis on interdisciplinary methodological innovation across social sciences, arts and science is unique in the UK context and worldwide. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Her primary research contribution is to the development of the interdisciplinary study of culture. Her approach combines studies of broad changes in the cultural sphere, such as consumer culture, the culture industry and personalisation, alongside a concern with their implications for society and the economy, with a  particular focus on individual identity, and the relations between individuals and social groups.

She has also contributed to the cultural study of numbers and numbering, including how the ability of numbers to communicate information – to identify, to reference, to size, to rank and to order – is happening in new ways in an era of datafication and digitalisation.