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Biography

My undergraduate degree was at Sussex and UC Berkeley. I then trained as a Primary school teacher and worked in schools for twelve years. During that time I worked in Tottori Prefecture in Japan, completed an MA in Education, and finished the National Professional Qualification for Headship.

Role

DPhil student in Psychology, and an Associate Tutor in the Education and Psychology Departments on MA and Undergraduate programmes.

I am also part of the EPSRC funded ShareIT project  http://shareitproject.org

Community and Business

Research Assistant

UK National Curriculum Strategy: Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning.

Peer reviewer:

Computer Human Interaction (CHI) 2010 conference

Interact (2009) conference

Computer Human Interaction (CHI) 2009 Workshop on Tangibles and Children.

Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 2010 special issue on tangibles and children.

Awards

First Prize poster for 'Tangible user Interfaces as a collaborative tool for Autism Spectrum conditions' at the Ubicomp at the Crossroads Workshop, January 2009.

Qualifications

Batchelor of Arts in American Studies

Postgraduate Certificate in Education

Master of Arts in Education

National Professional Qualfication for Headship

Yon Kyuu level in Japanese

Activities

Conference attendance:

'Internet of Things' 2008 conference hosted by ETH Zurich http://www.iot2008.org/

British Psychological Society 2008 Developmental Conference, Oxford, UK

British Psychological Society 2008 Education Conference, Milton Keynes, UK

Computer Assisted Learning conference 2009, Brighton, UK

British Psychological Society 2009 Developmental Section Conference, Nottingham, UK

Membership of:

British Psychological Society http://www.bps.org.uk/

British Computer Society http://www.bcs.org/

Japan Society and reviews latest publications on Japan http://www.japansociety.org.uk/