Institute of Creative Technologies members
Tracy Harwood, Director of the Institute of Creative Technologies
De Montfort University
Queens Building, Room 3.05
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
T: +44 (0)116 255 1551 / +44 (0)116207 8028
E: tharwood@dmu.ac.uk
Tracy is Professor of Digital Culture.
She has a management background and, prior to joining the IOCT as a founder member, was director of Postgraduate Management Studies within the university's Faculty of Business and Law. She was awarded a HEA National Teacher Fellowship in 2004 for her development of the university's elearning and Innovation Centre strategies and programme. She holds a PhD in negotiation behaviour and is director of the university’s Usability Lab. She is a specialist in mixed methods research and user experience design.
Her research crosses computer science, arts, design, health and marketing disciplines. Current projects relate to the application of emerging technologies to business and consumer contexts, including AI, machine cinema/virtual production, smart environments, VR, AR, haptic interfaces and user experience. She has published in leading marketing and digital creativity journals, including Journal of Services Management, Journal of Service Marketing, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Leonardo, Digital Creativity and Journal of Visual Culture. Her research has been funded by AHRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK and others.
She co-founded and directs the Arts Council England-funded Art AI Festival, a city-wide collaborative annual event that presents latest applications of creative AI and which is part of the British Science Festival Network. She is a co-host of an international podcast on machine-cinema (virtual production), And Now For Something Completely Machinima.
Research and associate members of the IOCT are -
Craig Appleby, Technical Instructor, Performance & Media
Simon Atkinson, Associate Professor, Music Technology
Peter Batchelor, Senior Lecturer, Music Technology
Bret Battey, Professor of Contemporary Music
Helen Burbidge, Associate Professor, Fashion
Robert Chafer, Lecturer, Dance
Jenifer Chao, Associate Professor, Journalism
Ross Clement, Senior Lecturer, Media Production
Thom Corah, Senior Lecturer, Media Production
Tove Delanius, Lecturer, Applied Holography
Saria Digregorio, Senior Lecturer, Graphic Design
Zu Dominiak, Lecturer, Concept and Comic Art
Jonny Dutra, Senior Lecturer, Online Media Production
Jodie Hatcher, Technical Instructor, Performance Arts
Karen Hickinbotham, Senior Lecturer, Fashion Buying
David Hughes, Technical Instructor, Performance Arts
Teodora Kuzmanova, Senior Lecturer, Game Art
Leigh Landy, Professor of Contemporary Music (director, Music Technology and Innovation Research Centre)
Indrani Lahiri, Senior Lecturer in Public Relations
Robert Leary, Technical Instructor, Performance Arts
Simon Mills, Associate Professor, New Media
Haley Morris-Cafiero, Associate Professor, Visual Arts
Craig Mooney, Senior Lecturer, Game Art
Dan Morley, Associate Professor, Media Design
Diviesh Navekar, Technical Instructor, Media
Dave Paget, Senior Lecturer, Media Production
Daniela Romano, Professor of AI and Games (director, Institute of AI)
Jethro Shell, Senior Lecturer, Games Programming
Peter Shenton, Senior Lecturer, Dance
Thomas Thesen, Senior Lecturer, Animation
Dave Tunnicliffe, Technical Instructor, AV
Nanette Westberg-Brown, Senior Lecturer, Footwear Design
Thom Wilson, Lecturer, VFX/Virtual Environments
Kerryn Wise, Senior Lecturer, Performing Arts
Ray Yau, Technical Instructor, Performance Arts
Current IOCT PhD students are -
Ike Adelola
Stacie Bennett-Worth
Jason Boomer
Sean Carroll (Midlands 4 Cities funded scholarship, collaboration with Computer Arts Archive)
Robert Chafer
James Cull (Midlands 4 Cities funded scholarship)
Marie Hay
David Hughes
Andi Johnson (Midlands 4 Cities funded scholarship, collaboration with Fabric)
Khairul Kamsani
Teodora Kuzmanova
Romana Lakinger-Njari
Ny McClain
Joe Moran
Dan Morley
Shanique Thompson
Mike Uwins
Becca Vernon
Ruichao Wang
Lai Wei
Roy Weller
Kerryn Wise (Midlands 4 Cities funded scholarship)
IOCT visiting researchers -
Sean Clark, Interact Digital Arts / Computer Arts Archive
Dmitry Dubovitskiy, Electronic Engineering and Mechatronics
Ernest Edmonds, Emeritus Professor, Computational Arts
Becca Heathcote, Researcher
Duska Rosenberg, Emertus Professor, Informatics
Sophy Smith, Honorary Professor, Creative Technologies Practice
Anthony Woodward, Twin Planets