Community Leads.
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.
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.
Daniel Harrison
Position: Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow
Interests: Digital health and wellbeing, personal informatics, self-tracking, behaviour change.
Dirk van der Linden
Position: Lecturer
Interests: requirements engineering; cyberpsychology; animal-computer interaction
James Nicholson
Lecturer. Interests: Cybersecurity and privacy, including usable security, usable authentication, social engineering, and inclusive cybersecurity.
Jayne Wallace
Position: Professor of Craft, Digital Creativity 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
Joseph Newbold
Position: Lecturer. Interests: Sonification and auditory display, Digital Health and Well-being.
Kay Rogage
Position: Senior Lecturer
Interests: Digital living, Smart Connected Technologies, Data Science, Building Data
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
Nick Taylor
Position: Associate Professor
Interests: Community, public space, Internet of Things, research through design, DIY/maker culture
Pam Briggs
Professor of Applied Psychology. Interests: Identity, trust and security in new social media; Computer-mediated communication
Paul Vickers
Position: Associate Professor
Interests: sonification, listening, aesthetics, embodied interaction, cybersecurity
Petia Sice
Position: Associate Professor. Interests: wellbeing, awareness, complexity, digital space.
Rob Wilson
Position: Professor
Interests: Co-Creation, Complexity, Multi-Agency working, Collaboration, Public Management, Information sharing
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.
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
Jamie Mahoney
Senior Research Assistant. Interests: Social media analytics
Kahina Le Louvier
Senior Research Assistant. Interests: Migration; Social inclusion
Samantha Finnigan
Position: Research Fellow
Interests: Sustainable HCI, Human-Building Interaction, Food Systems, Pervasive Sensing
Selina Sutton
Interests: Speech; Public Online Video; Social Media; Voice User Interfaces; Emoji.
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
Cameron Craggs
Position: Doctoral Researcher
Interests: Creative & Technical Production, Mixed Reality, Filmmaking, Photogrammetry, Motion Capture, Virtual Environments, 3D avatars
Carlos Alvarez
Position: PhD student. Interests: Gig economy, freelancing, flexible work, wellbeing, online co-design.
Chloe Kliman-Silver
Position: PhD Student
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
Sena Çerçi
Interests: Cyborgs, Embodiment, Power, and Epistemology
Simran Chopra
Interests: Sustainability, Futuring, Design Fiction, Food Systems, Grassroots Communities
Tor Alexander Bruce
Position: Doctoral Researcher
Interests: Immersive Interactive Virtual Environments; Cognitive Science
Alumni.
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.
Caroline Claisse
Research Associate. Interests: Interaction, tangible interaction, cocreation, research through design, craft, care, multisensory design, digital health, heritage.
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
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.
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
Rachel Clarke
Research Fellow. Interests: Politics of participatory and co-design practice, Cross-cultural development of digital technology, Gender equality
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