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Bridgette Wessels
Academic Profile

Professor Bridgette Wessels

Professor in the Sociology of Inequalities, University of Glasgow

Research Theme: Social, economic and technological transitions

Career

Bridgette research focuses on social exclusion and digital divides, financial exclusion and the e-economy, social media and political inequality, health inequalities and telehealth, welfare services and (digital) identity, local journalism and inclusion and e-policing, ethnicity and communities. She is also addressing the developing uses of open and big data in open services and data-driven science.

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