Community Leads.

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.

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.

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.

Abigail Durrant
Associate Professor. Interests: Digitally-mediated self and identity; digital health; major life transitions; memorialization and cultural visiting; human rights media.

Adrian Clear
Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow. Interests: HCI for sustainability in various domains including thermal comfort, energy, and food futures.

Andrew McNeill
Lecturer. Interests: Health information and social media

Cally Gatehouse
Graduate Tutor. Interests: Graphic and Interaction Design, Feminist STS, Speculative Design Research

Christina Vasiliou
Lecturer. Interests: Computer-supported collaborative learning and cooperative work; development and evaluation of shared workspaces.

James Nicholson
Lecturer. Interests: Cybersecurity and privacy, including usable security, usable authentication, social engineering, and inclusive cybersecurity.

Jayne Wallace
Professor of Craft and Wellbeing. Interests: Digital Jewellery; Sense of Self; Dementia; End of Life; Digital Ongoingness; Craft; Wellbeing.

John Rooksby
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Digital Health and Well-being; Lived Informatics

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.

Joseph Newbold
Position: Lecturer. Interests: Sonification and auditory display, Digital Health and Well-being.

Kay Rogage
Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow. Interests: Building Information Modelling (BIM), Machine Learning, Human-Building Interaction

Lars Erik Holmquist
Professor of Innovation. Interests: Ubiquitous computing; design driven innovation process; location-based services; interactive television and augmented reality

Lisa Thomas
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Life transitions; managing online identities; loneliness and wellbeing in students; digital resources for student mothers

Liz Sillence
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Psychology of communication, health psychology, digital technology for health

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.

Mark Blythe
Professor in Interdisciplinary design. Interests: Design ethnography

Mark Warner
Position: Lecturer. Interests: Computer-mediated communication, health disclosure, privacy, online wellbeing

Marta Cecchinato
Senior Lecturer. Interests: productivity and wellbeing; information management – managing emails, interruptions, and work-home boundaries

Martyn Amos
Professor. Interests: Simulation, crowds, synthetic biology, natural computing.

Matt Pointon
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Mobile and ubiquitous computing; User Experience; User testing; Information Retrieval; Eye-tracking

Nick Dalton
Associate Professor. Interests: architecture and HCI; Space Syntax; Very large-scale user interfaces – public displays, VR, table-sized multitouch surfaces

Pam Briggs
Professor of Applied Psychology. Interests: Identity, trust and security in new social media; Computer-mediated communication

Paul Vickers
Associate Professor. Interests: Sonification and auditory display, especially of scientific data

Petia Sice
Position: Associate Professor. Interests: wellbeing, awareness, complexity, digital space.

Rachel Clarke
Research Fellow. Interests: Politics of participatory and co-design practice, Cross-cultural development of digital technology, Gender equality

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

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.

Steve Gibson
Associate Professor in Innovative Digital Media. Interests: Motion-tracking, live audio-visuals, physical computing, art-science collaboration, experiential design.
Research Staff.

Caroline Claisse
Research Associate. Interests: Interaction, tangible interaction, cocreation, research through design, craft, care, multisensory design, digital health, heritage.

Daniel Harrison
Senior Research Assistant. Interests: Digital health and wellness, personal informatics, self-tracking, behaviour change.

Jamie Mahoney
Senior Research Assistant. Interests: Social media analytics

Kahina Le Louvier
Senior Research Assistant. Interests: Migration; Social inclusion

Tommy Dylan
Senior Research Associate. Interests: Prototyping interactions, craft technology, design ethnography, dementia, outdoor play
Doctoral Researchers.

Anne Spaa
Interests: Design Research practices, Policy making

Belén Barros Pena
Interests: Digital money, Participatory design, Older adults

Callum Nash
Interests: Digital Civics, Design Fiction

Carlos Alvarez
Position: PhD student. Interests: Gig economy, freelancing, flexible work, wellbeing, online co-design.

Chloe Kliman-Silver
Interests: Social Computing, Animal Computer Interaction, Cybersecurity, Social Network Systems

Henry Collingham
Interests: Design for Dementia, Product Design

Kiersten Hay
Interests: Personal identity, Online informational privacy, Visual communication design, Cultural heritage, Interactive narratives, Feminism, and Stigma

Leila Hogarth
Interests: Emerging technologies and Artificial intelligence in Digital Design

Megan Doherty
Interests: Urban Planning, Participatory Design

Selina Sutton
Interests: Speech; Public Online Video; Social Media; Voice User Interfaces; Emoji.

Sena Çerçi
Interests: Cyborgs, Embodiment, Power, and Epistemology

Simran Chopra
Interests: Sustainability, Futuring, Design Fiction, Food Systems, Grassroots Communities
Alumni.

David Kirk
Professor of Digital Living. Interests: Human-Building Interaction; Design for the (Smart) Home; Interactive products; memorialisation and archives

David Verweij
Interests: Internet of Things, Physical Computing, Do-it-Yourself, Research through Design, Voice User Interfaces

Dmitry Dereshev
Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robots, In the Wild Research

Ed Hyatt
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Adventuring; Information retrieval; Human-Data Interaction; interaction-in-the-wild

Effie Le Moignan
Interests: Family snapshots & Instagram, Socio-technical history of the visual, Everyday image culture, Digital living

Gavin Wood
Research Assistant. Interests: Collocated Play; Playful design; Digital Playing Out; IxD; Extended Realities (VR/AR); Computer Graphics; Mobile Development

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

Nantia Koulidou
Research Associate. Interests: Jewellery, digital jewellery, design probes, participation, craft, making

Perla Innocenti
Senior Lecturer. Interests: Cultural heritage, museum studies, cultural informatics, library and information science

Sam Nemeth
Interests: Video-mediated communication

Shiro Inoue
Post-Doctoral Researcher. Interests: Design Research, Industrial Design, Fatigue

Tom Feltwell
Senior Research Assistant. Interests: interaction technology, chatbots, second-screening, social computing, game design, critical design, game analytics