Staff

CCP steering group

Name	Position	Role
Professor Yvonne Barnett (Chairperson)	Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of College, NTU	Yvonne acts as a facilitator and sponsor for CCP to enable ambitions and aspirations to be formulated.
Iain Simons	Director, GameCity	Festival Director for GameCity, part of the National Videogame Archive and also a videogames writer, Iain ensures CCP translates to the games industry, is accessible for the general public and helps define strategies.
Professor Nasser Sherkat	Associate Dean School of Science and Technology, NTU	Nasser has vast experience in pattern recognition and classification algorithms, multimodal human-machine computer interaction through eye-gaze, speech, hand and body gestures; intelligent recognition.
Prof Joost Van Loon	Professor of Media Analysis, NTU	Joost has interests in science and technology studies in gaming development; online gaming and social networking; the social and cultural embedding of technological innovation; virtual geography and architecture; performativity, subjectivity and networked being.
Dr Christine White	Academic Team Leader, Narrative and Interactive arts, NTU	Christine is the Head of Narrative and Interactive Arts with a background in Multimedia, theatre design and tv.
Professor David Brown	Professor in Interactive Systems for Social Inclusion, NTU	David’s specialisms lie in virtual reality and multimedia based education and assistive technology.
Gail Dixon	Head of Business, Innovation and Creation, NTU	Gail is the Head of Business, Innovation and Creation which works at the heart of NTU and has a mission to support student enterprise through The Hive and Academic Enterprise through the Business Innovation Team.

CCP research group

Name	Position	Role
Martyn Bennett	Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, NTU	Chair of CCP Research Group.
Dr Monica Whitty	Reader in Psychology, NTU	Monica’s research background is in cyperpsychology, playful spaces and forming online relationships.
Professor David Brown	Professor in Interactive Systems for Social Inclusion, NTU	David’s specialisms lie in virtual reality and multimedia based education and assistive technology.
Dr Christine White	Academic Team Leader, Narrative and Interactive arts , NTU	Christine is the Head of Narrative & Interactive Arts with a background in Multimedia, theatre design and tv.
Professor Joost Van Loon	Professor of Media Analysis, NTU	Joost has interests in science and technology studies in gaming development: on-line gaming and social networking; the social and cultural embedding of technological innovation; virtual geography and architecture; performativity, subjectivity and net-worked being.

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