Dr Kieran Hegarty is a sociologist who studies how we remember, record and study people’s engagements with technologies.

He received an interdisciplinary PhD from RMIT University in 2024 and was a 2022 Digital Humanism Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is currently a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) at RMIT.
Kieran’s Internet Histories article, "The invention of the archived web" was awarded the journal's 2022 Early Career Researcher Award. He has also published in Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Cultural Policy and New Media & Society.

Kieran’s first book will be published in Routledge’s Studies in Archives series.

I CONDUCT MY RESEARCH ON THE UNCEDED LAND OF THE BOON WURRUNG AND WURUNDJERI PEOPLE OF THE EASTERN KULIN NATION. I PAY MY RESPECTS TO THEIR ELDERS PAST AND PRESENT.