Samantha Hartley

Samantha is a social anthropologist researching reproductive health governance and infrastructures of care in post-conflict Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is supervised by Dr Perveez Mody.

Samantha received a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Anthropology and Development Studies from the Australian National University in 2018, receiving the Richard B Davis Prize for Anthropology and a Chancellor’s Letter of Commendation. 

Samantha worked in international development at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade before receiving a Cambridge Australia Masters Studentship.

Samantha researched the phenomenon of Redundant Obsolete or Trivial (ROT) data in Femtech for her masters dissertation. She graduated from the MPhil in Social Anthropology Research with Distinction in 2024.