Digital Cultural and Creative Research Network

Dr Alexandros Antoniou

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Communications Law; Intellectual Property Law and Asset Management; Cyber-obscenity; Media Ethics and Media Regulation

Dr Matteo Baraldo

Senior Research Officer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies

Dr Francesca Dolcetti

Senior Research Officer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies

Dr Giulia Gentile

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Tasos Giapoutzis

Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: FIlm Aesthetics; Filmmaking Process; Nostalgia and Memory; Displacement and Migration

Dr Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Disaster Heritage; Community Resilience; Heritage and Sense of Place; Digital Replicas of Heritage; Virtual Museums; Digital Heritage; Immersive environments for Heritage and Museums; The Heritage of Natural Catastrophes; Affect, Cognition and Perception in Digital Heritage Studies; Video Ethnography for Heritage Studies

Dr Christina Kapadocha

Lecturer, East 15 Acting School

Professor Stavroula Karapapa

Dean of Partnerships (Research) - Professor (R), Essex Law School

Research interests: Copyright Law and Policy; Law and the Arts, Cultural Heritage; Legal Challenges of AI, Big Data and Blockchain Technology; Personality Rights, Data Protection, and Information Privacy; Internet Law, and Digital Regulation; Trade Mark and Unfair Competition Law; Trustworthy AI: Law and Ethics

Professor Rosemary Klich

Professor, East 15 Acting School

Dr Gabrielle Lin

Lecturer, Edge Hotel School

Research interests: Applied economics; Behavioural economics and decision-making; Business analytics; Demand modelling and forecasting

Professor Noam Lubell

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Humanitarian Law / Law of Armed Conflict; Conduct of Hostilities; Military Occupation; New Military and Law Enforcement Technologies, including Cyber Operations, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Human Enhancement; The Use of Force by States; Self-Defence; the UN Collective Security Framework; Counter-Terrorism.

Professor Holly Maples

Professor, East 15 Acting School

Dr Mary Mazzilli

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Chinese and East-Asian Theatre; World and Global Theatres and Literatures; Postdramatic Theatres; Modernism/Postmodernism in drama and literature; Post-war British theatre and theatres in Europe; Contemporary Theatre Practices (directing and producing); Dramaturgy and Playwriting (PaR and Creative practices); Comparative Drama and Literature; Gender Studies and Women's writing

Professor Lorna McGregor

Professor, Essex Law School - Human Rights Centre

Dr Daniel O'Brien

Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Delete Conference planning collective

Dr Sarah Louise Smyth

Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Dr Michael Tymkiw

Reader (R), School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Spectatorship; Histories of modernism; Exhibition design and curation; The relationship between art and politics; The use of digital technologies in museums and galleries; Intersections between pre-modern and modern art

Professor Christopher Willett

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: UK, EU and global consumer and contract law; commercial law; services of general interest; unfair terms and practices law; quality and safety of goods and services; financial services; digital content law

Dr James Allen-Robertson

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Digital Cultures; Tech Culture; Science and Technology Studies; Computational Social Science; Far-right radicalisation; Tech culture elites; Fascism

Dr Michael Bailey

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Critical theory; Historical sociology; Working-class heritage; Sociology of the media and modern culture; Intellectual history of ethical socialism and cultural criticism; Governmentality studies; Sociology of religion; Cultural policy studies

Professor Peter Bloom

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Professor Eamonn Carrabine

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Crime and the Media; Cultural and Social Geography; Popular Music and Sociological Thinking; Punishment and Human Rights; Sociology of Imprisonment; Visual Sociology; Youth Culture

Dr Maitrayee Deka

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Economic Sociology; Consumer Culture; New Media; Social Theory; Technology

Dr Nasser Jabbari

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL); Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL); Robot Assisted Language Learning (RALL); Digital Game-based Language Learning (DGBLL); Second Language Learning/Teaching/Assessment in Virtual and Augmented Reality Contexts

Dr Xintong Jia

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: media and gender; advertising and consumer culture; reality dating television; audience reception; postfeminism and popular feminism; family in contemporary China; feminism in China

Dr Tara Mahfoud

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Science and Technology Studies; Neuroscience and Society; Dual Use; Responsible Research and Innovation; Medical Anthropology

Professor Phoebe Moore

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Professor Sean Nixon

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Consumption and Commercial Cultures; Advertising and Market Devices; Cultural Studies; Television and the Natural World; Cultures of nature and human-animal relations

Dr Javier Andreu-Perez

Reader, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Continual Learning; Biomedical Informatics; Cognitive Computing; Large Vision Models (LVMs); Large Language Models (LLMs); Generative AI; Soft Computing; Human centred Artificial Intelligence; Agentic AI; Physical AI

Dr Jon Chamberlain

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Problem solving with collective intelligence and distributed human tasking (crowdsourcing/human computation); Citizen science through games, gamification and games-with-a-purpose; Computer vision in 3D modelled environments

Dr Ian Daly

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Brain-computer interfacing; Machine learning; Signal processing; Functional neural connectivity; EEG; fNIRS; fMRI; Motor control; Motor rehabilitation; Brain stimulation

Dr Tom Foulsham

Reader, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Visual cognition; Perception of pictures and videos; Eye movements; Cognitive neuropsychology

Professor Hani Hagras

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Computational Intelligence (Fuzzy Logic,Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computation ); Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI); Explainable Generative AI

Dr Paul Hanel

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Human values; Stereotypes and prejudice; Political psychology; Working from home/remote work; Cross-cultural research; Similarities

Professor Leila Musavian

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: URLLC Use case; 6G Communications; Massive MIMO; Physical Layer Network Coding; Machine Learning for Communication; 5G/Beyond 5G

Professor Gijsbert Stoet

Professor, Department of Psychology

Professor Nikolaos Thomos

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Network coding; Multimedia communications; Information-centric networks; Joint source and channel coding; Semantic Communications; Machine learning for communications; Caching Networks; Multimedia Signal Processing

Dr Wijnand Van Tilburg

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Boredom; Nostalgia; Economic psychology; Emotion; Meaning in life

Professor Stuart Walker

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: High-capacity optical network systems; semiconductor laser characteristics; broadband optical receiver design; optical transmission; local access architectures based on arrayed waveguide gratings; video compression