Sherita is a PhD candidate at the Cambridge Sociology Department and a Cambridge Trust Scholar. Her current project examines the interplay between the digital self-tracking phenomenon and people with autism spectrum conditions. Very broadly, this involves a qualitative inquiry into the lived experiences of how people live a life with autism and how everyday technologies and digital self-tracking practices give rise to alternative modes of being and habituation, including a critical reflection on the idea of neurodiversity.
Prior to starting her PhD degree, Sherita received her MPhil in Sociology of Media and Culture from the University of Cambridge. Before joining Cambridge, she completed her BSocSc (Hons) in Sociology at the University of Manchester, where she graduated with the highest distinction and was awarded the Dean’s Award for Achievement and the Sociology Ethnography Dissertation Prize based on her overall academic performance and dissertation. During her time as an undergraduate, Sherita worked as a student research assistant at the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE).
