Games for Impact

Our people

Learn about our team and their expertise

Director of Games for Impact

Vanissa Wanick

Dr Chris Buckingham CMBE

Commercialisation Manager (Soc Sciences)

Research interests

  • Christopher’s research interests cover a number of topics in the main subject areas of crowdf…
  • His current research interests include:
  • Developing entrepreneurial cognition for games developers

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Miss Jiayi Cen

Research interests

  • Creativity
  • Educational measurement and evaluation
  • Game-based assessment and learning
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Dr Joseph Owen

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Culture and heritage in place, particularly the use of creative methods to understand local i…
  • Arts and humanities approaches to policy, particularly the use of theory and practice to chal…
  • Modernist art and literature, particularly Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, a…
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Mrs Kristina Risley FCIPD, FHEA, GMBPsS

Research interests

  • Gamification and serious games for leadership development
  • Soft skills development in leadership
  • Psychometric tools for leadership development
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Professor Matt Ryan

Professor

Research interests

  • Democracy
  • Social Research Methods
  • Web Science

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Dr Paolo Spada

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Diffusion and impact of governance and social innovations (Democratic Innovations).
  • Combining large surveys, field experiments, quantitative and qualitative analysis 

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Dr Ramy Hammady PhD, FHEA, MVP

Lecturer in Design Leadership

Research interests

  • Emerging Technologies, including Extended Reality (XR), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reali…
  • Design Leadership, Strategic Design Management and Human-Centered Design.
  • User Interface and User Experience Design (UI/UX), and User Research

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Dr Richard Gomer BSc(Hons) MSc PhD (he/him)

Lecturer in Computer Science

Research interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Agency-oriented Design
  • Data Institutions

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