About

Dr Caitlin McGrane is a feminist activist, researcher and academic based in Melbourne, Australia.

I am a Research Fellow in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University. I am currently Research Fellow on two collaborative ARC-funded projects led by Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth and Professor Ingrid Richardson. I work on the Museum Digital Social Futures project—a Linkage partnership between RMIT, ACMI and AMaGA that investigates digital-social co-creation between museums and their audiences. I also work on the Ageing in and through Data project—a Discovery study that investigates how older adults are incorporating technology into their ageing-in-place practices. I sit on the board of the charity Digital Rights Watch, an organisation that works to ensure fairness, freedoms and fundamental rights for all people who engage in the digital world.

My research explores gender, identity, technology and everyday life. I am particularly interested in how gender-based digital harms are experienced and resisted in quotidian ways. I have previously worked in the not-for-profit sector as a gendered online harassment prevention practitioner and researcher. 

While I am not currently teaching, I have previously worked as a subject coordinator and tutor across a range of subjects and study levels in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne and Monash University.

Outside of work, I’m a keen trail and long-distance runner, and you can follow me on Strava if you like.