Dr Jacinthe Flore

Dr Jacinthe Flore is a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University.

Jacinthe's research focuses on the intersections of technology, health and society. Her work is interdisciplinary and situated in two interrelated areas: (1) mental health and digital technology, and (2) the genealogy of psychiatric diagnoses, sexuality and medical techniques/technology. Jacinthe is also a co-convenor of the Health Thematic Group of The Australian Sociological Association.

Jacinthe's current work interrogates the nexus of digital technology, design and mental health, particularly artificial intelligence, wearable devices, wellbeing apps and fourth-generation pharmaceuticals. She is the author of several articles published in international journals and her first monograph, A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020. Jacinthe is presently working on a second monograph titled Digital Mental Health: Technologies, Algorithms and Smart Devices (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2021).

Before commencing as a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jacinthe was a researcher on two projects: 'Mental Health and Supported Decision-Making', an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project, and 'Early Menopause: Experiences and Perspectives of Women and Health Professionals', a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Partnership Project. On the latter project, she was a co-author of an innovative Healthtalk Australia digital resource.