Biography
After graduating with a MEng in Engineering from Cambridge University I started working as a commercial programmer working on desktop applications. After 5 years of experience my concerns about the usability of these systems led me to undertake a part-time MSc at the University of Sussex in Human-Centred Computer Systems, whilst at the same time working as a Business Systems Analyst for a large blue-chip company. I followed that with a stint of working as a programmer and analyst in various web-based systems, including working with Moodle. I became interested in group learning and behaviour, and applied to do a DPhil in Informatics to look at groups in games.
Role
I am a research student undertaking a DPhil in the Department of Informatics as a member of the Human-Centred Computing lab group. I'm also an Associate Tutor in the same Department.
Community and Business
Professional memberships:
- ACM SIGCHI
- DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association)
Qualifications
- MSc Human-Centred Computer Systems (University of Sussex, 2008)
- MEng Engineering (Cambridge University, 2001)
- BA Engineering (Cambridge University, 2001)
Activities
Training
- Associate Tutor Training – Starting to Teach Sciences Spring 2011 workshop
- Profolio course
- Poster presentation course
- Inbox zero and tech task lists: Getting things done.
- Fire warden training
- "Write that journal article in 7 days" Workshop with Inger Mewburn.
- Using Scrivener to write your thesis
- "Covering your research costs" workshop
Conferences
- Attended multi.player 2011, 21st-23rd July 2011, Hohenheim, Germany.
- Presented a poster at Fun and Games 2012, 4th-6th September 2012, Toulouse, France.
- Participated in "Designing and Evaluating Sociability in Games" workshop, CHI 2013, Paris, France. (Paper in proceedings)
- Attended CHI 2013, 27th April-2nd May 2013, Paris, France.
- Presented at DiGRA 2013, 26-29th August, Atlanta, Georgia, US.