Celine Dearing

Celine is a lecturer in Game Design. She specialises in Motion Capture post production and has worked on a number of AAA games and international movies. She has a strong interest for children illustration – both traditional and digital, as well as textile illustration using

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Rachel Horrel

Rachel Horrell is a PhD researcher specialising in accessible music technology, delving into ways to innovate new technologies that cater to musicians who are partially sighted or blind. Holding a Research Masters in Computer Music, she designed a brain-computer music interface for composing via the

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Ben Payne

Ben is a PhD researcher in the fields of computer music and immersive social music making. His research is concerned with the development of new interactive digital audio systems for immersive composition and performance. In addition to this, he has worked both creatively and technically

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Dylan Yamada-Rice

Dylan Yamada-Rice is an artist and researcher specialising in storytelling and play. She works in a range of media including drawing, Virtual Reality and game engines. Dylan studied Japanese Art History, semiotics and social science research methods before moving into experimental design. She obtained a

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Lana Pericic

Lana is a Research Assistant at i-DAT supporting the Arts Institute and the development of the Far South West Immersive Cluster. As a postgraduate research student undertaking the MRes Digital Art and Technology programme and supports the BA/Bsc Digital Media Design as a Teaching Assistant.

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Thijs Mostert

Thijs [Tice] Mostert completed his Masters in Design at the University of Plymouth in 2021. Thijs has come from a healthcare background, working in secondary and primary care settings across the South West for over 10 years. He has special interest sustainability and the circular

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Mark Osborne

hi I’m Mark Osborne, doing a practice based phd here at sunny Plymouth, with the practice part involving ‘audio reactive error diffusion dither’ based cybernetic systems. All being well this to help create some kind of insight into a ‘creatively centred’ understanding of computational media.

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Frank Jiang

Haoyun (Frank) Jiang is a PhD researcher in i-DAT on the CODEX International Postgraduate Research Network. His research focuses on improving the skills of Marine Carbon Neutrality by using Product Design methods. The ocean is an important carbon pool for absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Over the past

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Andrew Denham

Practice-based PhD research studies at i-DAT: PhD title: Mapping the aestheticisation of digital reading practices My research interests lie within the below field/s: [1] Design thinking: an ontology in digital / web aesthetics [paradigm, form, function] [2] Pedagogic research: an epistemology of digital reading practices

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Kyra Boyle

Kyra is a researcher at i-DAT and an Associate Lecturer with the Digital Media Design programme at the University of Plymouth. Kyra also works with the NHS Torbay as a Digital Futures Healthcare Fellow, where she makes VR projects within Unity, looking at the histories

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