Community Leads.
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Lynne Coventry
Professor of Psychology and NORTH Lab Community Lead for Psychology. Interests: Cybersecurity and human factors of privacy, security and identity; digital technology for health and behaviour change; psychology and communication technology.
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Shaun Lawson
Professor of Social Computing and NORTH Lab Community Lead for Computer and Information Sciences. Interests: Social media and technologies for health and wellbeing, politics and activism, and sustainability; animal-computer interaction; dog internet.
Academic Staff.
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Andrew McNeill
Lecturer. Interests: Health information and social media
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Cally Gatehouse
Graduate Tutor. Interests: Graphic and Interaction Design, Feminist STS, Speculative Design Research
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Christina Vasiliou
Lecturer. Interests: Computer-supported collaborative learning and cooperative work; development and evaluation of shared workspaces.
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Daniel Harrison
Position: Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow Interests: Digital health and wellbeing, personal informatics, self-tracking, behaviour change.
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Dirk van der Linden
Position: Lecturer Interests: requirements engineering; cyberpsychology; animal-computer interaction
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James Nicholson
Lecturer. Interests: Cybersecurity and privacy, including usable security, usable authentication, social engineering, and inclusive cybersecurity.
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Jayne Wallace
Position: Professor of Craft, Digital Creativity and Wellbeing. Interests: Digital Jewellery; Sense of Self; Dementia; End of Life; Digital Ongoingness; Craft; Wellbeing.
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John Rooksby
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Digital Health and Well-being; Lived Informatics
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Joseph Newbold
Position: Lecturer. Interests: Sonification and auditory display, Digital Health and Well-being.
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Kay Rogage
Position: Senior Lecturer Interests: Digital living, Smart Connected Technologies, Data Science, Building Data
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Lars Erik Holmquist
Professor of Innovation. Interests: Ubiquitous computing; design driven innovation process; location-based services; interactive television and augmented reality
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Lisa Thomas
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Life transitions; managing online identities; loneliness and wellbeing in students; digital resources for student mothers
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Liz Sillence
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Psychology of communication, health psychology, digital technology for health
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Lynne Coventry
Professor of Psychology and NORTH Lab Community Lead for Psychology. Interests: Cybersecurity and human factors of privacy, security and identity; digital technology for health and behaviour change; psychology and communication technology.
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Mark Blythe
Professor in Interdisciplinary design. Interests: Design ethnography
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Mark Warner
Position: Lecturer. Interests: Computer-mediated communication, health disclosure, privacy, online wellbeing
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Marta Cecchinato
Senior Lecturer. Interests: productivity and wellbeing; information management – managing emails, interruptions, and work-home boundaries
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Martyn Amos
Professor. Interests: Simulation, crowds, synthetic biology, natural computing.
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Matt Pointon
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Mobile and ubiquitous computing; User Experience; User testing; Information Retrieval; Eye-tracking
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Nick Dalton
Associate Professor. Interests: architecture and HCI; Space Syntax; Very large-scale user interfaces – public displays, VR, table-sized multitouch surfaces
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Pam Briggs
Professor of Applied Psychology. Interests: Identity, trust and security in new social media; Computer-mediated communication
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Paul Vickers
Position: Associate Professor Interests: sonification, listening, aesthetics, embodied interaction, cybersecurity
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Petia Sice
Position: Associate Professor. Interests: wellbeing, awareness, complexity, digital space.
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Rob Wilson
Position: Professor Interests: Co-Creation, Complexity, Multi-Agency working, Collaboration, Public Management, Information sharing
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Santosh Vijaykumar
Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow. Interests: mobile and social media interventions for addressing global health challenges with a focus on tropical and infectious diseases
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Shaun Lawson
Professor of Social Computing and NORTH Lab Community Lead for Computer and Information Sciences. Interests: Social media and technologies for health and wellbeing, politics and activism, and sustainability; animal-computer interaction; dog internet.
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Steve Gibson
Associate Professor in Innovative Digital Media. Interests: Motion-tracking, live audio-visuals, physical computing, art-science collaboration, experiential design.
Research Staff.
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Dawn Branley-Bell
Position: Innovation Fellow (Centre for Digital Citizens) Interests: cyberpsychology, health behaviour, online communities, social media, HCI, AI, eating disorders, cybersecurity, ethics of online research, tech for behaviour change
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Henry Collingham
Interests: Design for Dementia, Product Design
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Jamie Mahoney
Senior Research Assistant. Interests: Social media analytics
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Kahina Le Louvier
Senior Research Assistant. Interests: Migration; Social inclusion
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Selina Sutton
Interests: Speech; Public Online Video; Social Media; Voice User Interfaces; Emoji.
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Tommy Dylan
Senior Research Associate. Interests: Prototyping interactions, craft technology, design ethnography, dementia, outdoor play
Doctoral Researchers.
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Anne Spaa
Interests: Design Research practices, Policy making
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Belén Barros Pena
Interests: Digital money, Participatory design, Older adults
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Callum Nash
Interests: Digital Civics, Design Fiction
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Cameron Craggs
Position: Doctoral Researcher Interests: Creative & Technical Production, Mixed Reality, Filmmaking, Photogrammetry, Motion Capture, Virtual Environments, 3D avatars
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Carlos Alvarez
Position: PhD student. Interests: Gig economy, freelancing, flexible work, wellbeing, online co-design.
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Chloe Kliman-Silver
Social Computing, Animal Computer Interaction, Cybersecurity, Social Network Systems
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Kiersten Hay
Interests: Personal identity, Online informational privacy, Visual communication design, Cultural heritage, Interactive narratives, Feminism, and Stigma
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Leila Hogarth
Interests: Emerging technologies and Artificial intelligence in Digital Design
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Megan Doherty
Interests: Urban Planning, Participatory Design
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Sena Çerçi
Interests: Cyborgs, Embodiment, Power, and Epistemology
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Simran Chopra
Interests: Sustainability, Futuring, Design Fiction, Food Systems, Grassroots Communities
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Tor Alexander Bruce
Position: Doctoral Researcher Interests: Immersive Interactive Virtual Environments; Cognitive Science
Alumni.
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Abigail Durrant
Associate Professor. Interests: Digitally-mediated self and identity; digital health; major life transitions; memorialization and cultural visiting; human rights media.
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Adrian Clear
Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow. Interests: HCI for sustainability in various domains including thermal comfort, energy, and food futures.
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Caroline Claisse
Research Associate. Interests: Interaction, tangible interaction, cocreation, research through design, craft, care, multisensory design, digital health, heritage.
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David Kirk
Professor of Digital Living. Interests: Human-Building Interaction; Design for the (Smart) Home; Interactive products; memorialisation and archives
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David Verweij
Interests: Internet of Things, Physical Computing, Do-it-Yourself, Research through Design, Voice User Interfaces
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Dmitry Dereshev
Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robots, In the Wild Research
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Ed Hyatt
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Adventuring; Information retrieval; Human-Data Interaction; interaction-in-the-wild
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Effie Le Moignan
Interests: Family snapshots & Instagram, Socio-technical history of the visual, Everyday image culture, Digital living
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Gavin Wood
Research Assistant. Interests: Collocated Play; Playful design; Digital Playing Out; IxD; Extended Realities (VR/AR); Computer Graphics; Mobile Development
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Guido Noto La Diega
Senior Lecturer in Cyber Law and Intellectual Property. Interests: Internet of Things, blockchain, robotics, machine learning, intellectual property, cyber law, privacy, data protection, GDPR
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John Vines
Professor of Design and NORTH Lab Community Lead for Design. Interests: Participatory design; digital civics and technology for social good; technology and older age; digital health, care and wellbeing; human-centred data-driven and data-enabled technologies.
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Nantia Koulidou
Research Associate. Interests: Jewellery, digital jewellery, design probes, participation, craft, making
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Nick Taylor
Community, public space, Internet of Things, research through design, DIY/maker culture
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Perla Innocenti
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Cultural heritage, museum studies, cultural informatics, library and information science
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Rachel Clarke
Research Fellow. Interests: Politics of participatory and co-design practice, Cross-cultural development of digital technology, Gender equality
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Sam Nemeth
Interests: Video-mediated communication
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Samantha Finnigan
Position: Research Fellow Interests: Sustainable HCI, Human-Building Interaction, Food Systems, Pervasive Sensing
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Shiro Inoue
Post-Doctoral Researcher. Interests: Design Research, Industrial Design, Fatigue
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Tom Feltwell
Senior Research Assistant. Interests: interaction technology, chatbots, second-screening, social computing, game design, critical design, game analytics