Thesis Title
“Smart tech for smart bodies”: Algorithmic biosensor technologies and women’s health in the FemTech industry

Research Description
Sara Roetman’s thesis examines ‘smart’ FemTech wearables that aim to track and improve women’s health and wellbeing. She is interested in their specific intersection between biomedical health and algorithmic biosensor technologies, arguing that the FemTech industry is increasingly trying to innovate interventions that can directly and automatically manage particular bodily processes (e.g. smart cooling bracelets that adjust body temperature when a menopausal hot flush is detected).

Sara ultimately claims that FemTech is a key space where digital technologies are experimenting with novel ways to access and govern the living bodies of their users through automated and biological techniques.

Supervisors
Assoc Prof Nicholas Carah, The University of Queensland