Shuman is a first-year PhD student in the Sociology Department of Durham University and joined the Department in 2022. She completed the MSc in Digital Society programme from the University of Edinburgh (2020-2021) and the MA in Political Science programme from Kobe University (2015-2017). She also has working experience at IBM as an IT specialist for three years.
Shuman’s research area is the impacts of digital technologies on later life’s well-being. She is interested in the use of social media by older adults. In particular, the impact of social media use on the well-being of third age people. She uses mixed research methods, combining visual and computational approaches to analyse social media data.