Sammia Poveda is a Lecturer in International Development in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. She is also a Committee Member of the Digital Geographies Working Group of the Royal Geographical Society, with the Institute of British Geographers (DWGW/RGS-IBG), a Member of the Executive Council of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA). Formerly, she was a Research Associate of the Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) at the University of Sheffield, UK, and previously a Research Fellow of the United Nations University, Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS) in Macao, China. She completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.