Research
I have supervised a range of postgraduate researchers to successful completion. I welcome applications from qualified individuals for PhD, Postdoctoral, and Visiting Scholar positions through the following channels:Liverpool-CSC scholarship; Commonwealth PhD scholarship; Newton International Fellowship; Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships.
Colour, Perception & Multisensory Experience Design
This area of research begins with a simple question: how do people experience the world through their senses, and how can design shape that experience in meaningful ways? Colour plays a central role here, not as surface decoration, but as a powerful perceptual element that influences attention, cognition, emotion, and behaviour. The work explores how colour interacts with other sensory cues, such as sound, touch, and bodily movement, across physical and digital environments. Immersive and extended reality settings are often used to investigate these interactions under carefully designed conditions, allowing perception to be studied as something dynamic, embodied, and situated. Through this approach, the research seeks to build a deeper understanding of how multisensory experiences are formed and how they can be designed with intention and care.
Human–Data–AI Interaction & Co-Design
As data-driven and intelligent systems increasingly shape everyday decisions, this research area asks how humans can remain active, informed participants rather than passive recipients. The focus is on the relationships between people, data, and artificial intelligence, and on how design can make these relationships more transparent, interpretable, and collaborative. Research in this area explores human–data interaction, AI as a design collaborator, and digital twins as tools for understanding complex systems. Extended reality and spatial interfaces are used to make abstract data tangible and experiential, supporting sense-making, trust, and shared decision-making. Design is positioned not simply as an interface layer, but as a critical mediator between human values and computational systems.
Design for Health, Culture & More-than-Human Futures
This area of research is driven by questions of care, responsibility, and long-term impact. It applies experience-led and technology-enabled design to challenges in health and well-being, cultural heritage, and environmental sustainability. The work includes designing immersive and multisensory systems to support mental health, ageing, and neurodiversity, as well as creating new forms of engagement with cultural practices and heritage through digital and extended reality. It also embraces more-than-human perspectives, considering plants, ecosystems, and environments as active participants in design processes. Across these contexts, the emphasis is on ethical practice, inclusion, and imagining futures in which technology supports both human and ecological well-being.