About
Wallis Motta is currently an LSE Fellow in Media and Communications. She was an LSE Research Officer with Dr. Myria Georgiou and Prof. Sonia Livingstone in the project: Community through digital Connectivity, Communication Infrastructure in Multicultural London.
She previously worked as a Research Associate in The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies at UCL, where she was responsible for community engagement in the www.screensinthewild.org project.
She has been Visiting Lecturer at Riga Stradinis University and Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge. She has worked in industry as Planner in advertising agencies like DDB and JWT (Mexico City), as well as a Market Research consulting expert for Flamingo International (London) and De la Riva (Mexico City).
Wallis earned her PhD in Anthropology at UCL. She has an MA in Material and Visual Culture (UCL) and a BSc in Communication Sciences (Universidad Iberoamericana).
Expertise
neoliberalism, new technological urban landscapes, place-making transmedia practices, communication asset-infrastructure mapping, civic engagement, mixed methods