Anna Powell-Smith

Anna Powell-Smith

Visiting Senior Fellow

International Inequalities Institute

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Languages
English
Key Expertise
Data Analysis, Visualisation, Policy

About me

Anna is the director of the Centre for Public Data, a non-profit organisation working for stronger public data. She is a technologist by background and was previously chief product officer at Flourish, a successful data visualisation startup, and the founding technical director at the University of Oxford's DataLab, now the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. She has an MPhil in computer science from the University of Cambridge.

Expertise Details

Data Analysis; Visualisation; Policy

Recent Publications

  • Trevisan, F., Vaughan, M. & Vromen, A. (2025). Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy. University of Michigan Press. 
  • Vaughan, M. & Schieferdecker, D. (2025), 'Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race”', International Journal of Communication, 19 (1), 348-369 
  • Vaughan, M., & Kerr, S. (2025). Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication. Visual Communication.
  • Vaughan, M., Gruber, J. B., & Langer, A. I. (2025). The tension between connective action and platformisation: Disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze. New Media & Society, 27(2), 632-654.