I am a research associate within the EPSRC Digital Economy Research Centre sitting between Open Lab, Newcastle University and the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape. I have degrees in both town planning and computing, and recently finished my PhD (within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics) that explored how technology can create the means for an open dialogue around place, and how through these technologies, more meaningful discussions can happen about the future of cities.
My research sits at the intersection of digital technology, design, human–computer interaction and town planning, with a focus on alternative and enhanced tools and methods for participation in planning. These tools and methods include pervasive and wearable computing systems, alongside audio, visual and social media in novel interactive systems. Through this I explore how technologies can be designed, developed and evaluated within real world settings, with the aim of understanding the implications of these for citizen engagement and planning practice.
2020
Metro Futures: Experience-Centred Co-Design at Scale
2020 – Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’20
Open 10.1145/3313831.3376885
“We come together as one…and hope for solidarity to live on”: On Designing Technologies for Activism and the Commemoration of Lost Lives
2020 – Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '20
Open https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395452
Reflections on Deploying Community-Driven Visualisations for Public Engagement in Urban Planning
2020 – Urban Planning
Open 10.17645/up.v5i2.3008
2019
Urban planning, public participation and digital technology: App development as a method of generating citizen involvement in local planning processes
2019 – Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Open 10.1177/2399808317712515
Let’s draw and talk about urban change: Deploying digital technology to encourage citizen participation in urban planning
2019 – Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Open 10.1177/2399808319831290
Infrastructuring public service transformation: Creating collaborative spaces between communities and institutions through HCI research
2019 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Open 10.1145/3310284