I’m a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Socio-technical Systems in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University. I’m particularly interested in involving teenagers and children in the co-design of new and novel interactive technologies. My main focus is using technology to solve impactful problems and understanding technology use in the real world.

Much of my past work culminated in the Springer book Perspectives on HCI Research with Teenagers. The main UXD tools for working with teenagers I’ve created are the Cool Wall (further details here and here) for rapidly gaining insights into what is ‘cool’/preferences within a teen population, and the Primed Design Activity technique (further details here and here) for quickly and effectively gathering designs in a complex design context.

I was Co-Investigator on the 1.5m EPSRC funded ‘Taking on the Teenagers’ project which is lead by UCLan (www.mad4nrg.org), and have been involved in numerous research projects and knowledge transfer activities. I’m also involved in outreach and STEM activities; organising studies and activities in schools to engage young people in the science and technology subject areas. I’m also keen to explore crossovers between UX research and UX practice.

My staff profile page at Lancaster can be found here.

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