New PhD Applications
Please contact me directly if you are looking to do a PhD. I am currently interested in supervising students in the areas of mobile/digital money and payments, financial services/fintech, video production, interactive automotive media, internet of things (IoT), domestic and family technology use. I’m particularly interested in supervising work focusing on interaction design, with a focus on qualitative research methods (I’m especially interested in hearing from candidates with interests in ethnography, ethnomethodology, workplace studies, or video analysis, though not exclusively).
I am especially looking for great doctoral students in the area that I call FinUX or FinCHI, as a part of fintech: see this link to apply to study with me in the area of interactions with digital money – note that this has a UX/HCI focus, and isn’t for general cryptocurrency projects. There is no application deadline.
Research Students
I currently supervise one PhD:
- Saiphit Satjawisate – digital money, digital civics. Began Q4 2019.
Previous Students (11 graduated)
- Stavros Tasoudis (2020) Remote participatory automobile interactions. Computer Science, Brunel University London (currently: submitting corrections).
- Najeeb Abdulhamid (2019) Harnessing Collaborative Technologies in Digital Disaster Response Work: An Examination of Digital Volunteers’ Activities in Processing Crisis Data. Computer Science, Brunel University London.
- Francois Roubert (2018) ‘Intensely distributed nanoscience: co-ordinating scientific work in a large multi-sited cross-disciplinary nanomedical project’. Computer Science, Brunel University London (currently: Senior Lecturer, Westminster University, London).
- Chandrika Cycil (2015) ‘Technology and the family car: situating media use in family life’ (co-funded by Microsoft Research), DISC, Brunel (currently: UX researcher, Google, UK).
- Roshanak Zarabi (2011) Storing, caring and sharing: examining organisational practices around material stuff in the home, DISC, Brunel (currently: Teaching Fellow, Brunel Uni.).
- Laurel Swan (2011) Home/work: implications for domestic technologies, DISC, Brunel University (currently Research Fellow, RCA, London).
- Caroline Shangar (2009) Ubiquitous proximimity-sensitive systems, DISC, Brunel University (currently: project manager, Vodafone Group Plc).
- Marije Kanis (2009) Mobile technology and socio-affective computing. DISC, Brunel University (currently: Researcher, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences).
- Jacqueline Brodie (2004) ‘Supporting communication on the move: user activities and implications for mobile technology design’. DISC, Brunel University (currently: Research Fellow, Napier University).
- Gabriella Spinelli (2004) ‘Distributed Cognition: Artefacts and computational space for collaborative problem solving’. DISC, Brunel University (currently: Reader in Design, Brunel University).
- Janet Cole (2002) ‘Media Use and CSCW: A socio-organisational computational description of accounting activities’. DISC, Brunel University (currently: Associate Professor, Kingston University).
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