Selected Publications
Recent Key Publications/Outputs
Re-ordering connections: UK healthcare workers' experiences of emotion management during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dowrick, A., Mitchinson, L., Hoernke, K., Mulachy Symmons, S., Cooper, S., Martin, S., Vanderslott, S., Vera San Juan, N., & Vindrola-Padros, C. Sociology of Health & Illness. 2021; 00: 1– 22. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13390
“Any idea how fast ‘It’s just a mask!’ can turn into ‘It’s just a vaccine!’”: From mask mandates to vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sam Martin, Samantha Vanderslott. Vaccine, 2021, ISSN 0264-410X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.10.031
The pandemic of social media panic travels faster than the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of travel medicine. Depoux, A., Martin, S., Karafillakis, E., Bsd, R. P., Wilder-Smith, A., & Larson, H. (2020).
“Vaccines for pregnant women…?! Absurd” – Mapping maternal vaccination discourse and stance on social media over six months (Vaccine). Martin, S., Kilich, E., Dada, S., Kummervold Egil, P., Denny, C., Patterson, P., Larson, HJ. (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.0
BBC Two: Conspiracy Files: Vaccine Wars, 25th September 2019. Online (from 00.43: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p83wm).
BBC Radio Four: The Misinformation Virus, 17th December 2019. Online (from 04:47: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c9sm).
Qualifications
P.h.D. Interdisciplinary Studies: Digital Sociology and Digital Health. University of Warwick. Thesis Title: Coeliac Disease: Chronic Illness and Self-Care in the Digital Age
MSc. Digital Sociology, (Distinction, and Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement). Goldsmiths, University of London
MA Jurisprudence (Law) – Oxford University, Merton College
LLB Jurisprudence (Law) – Oxford University, Merton College
Relevant Career details
2020 – Current: Digital Analytics Consultant, Oxford Vaccine Group, and University College London: Rapid Research, Evaluation and Appraisal Lab (RREAL)
Collaborates with an international team of academics in one of several work-streams focused on both quantitative and qualitative analysis of Covid-19 data shared on social media by Health Care Workers (HCWs) re. their experience of working on the frontline.2019 – 2020: Research Fellow (Media Monitoring Analysis Research), at the Vaccine Confidence Project: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Discourse and Sentiment Analytics of Vaccine Hesitancy towards Maternal Vaccines:
Co-developed and refine Boolean queries, machine learning and data visualisation for social media and standard media monitoring; Analyse data generated through media monitoring of social media and local media signals of vaccine sentiments and concerns in countries worldwide, using appropriate statistical techniques; Conduct and write-up rapid and in-depth literature reviews and evidence syntheses in relevant areas; Contribute to the Faculty’s teaching programme as appropriate and required
2018: Senior Research Assistant: Manchester Metropolitan University
“Opting out of Digital Health”: Digital analytics and data monitoring into the ability of users to opt out of using Digital Health Apps that are sponsored by the NHS or independent backers, and apply a range of cultural and social theories (such as those on digital society and culture, digital health, and politics of bio data) to the analysis of collected data.2018: Visiting Lecturer in Advanced Digital Methods, University of Warwick Running Doctoral Training Centre workshops in Advanced Digital Methods for Graduate students, on web scraping, data visualisation with Gephi, and creative research techniques.