Funding

Total grant income: £272,294 (For unsuccessul applications, see here).
In chronolgical order:

• EU COST Action GameTable: Short Term Scientific Mission, 2024
  £2,000
  Competitive funding awarded to fund a travel grant to Vilnius, Lithuania to visit the Vilnius Toy Museum for a project on digitally augmented historical board games, with Indrė Jovaišaitė-Blaževičienė.
• Cardiff University College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Impact Acceleration Account, 2023
  £15,000
  Competitive funding awarded to fund a pilot study exploring chattable avatars for museums, with Dr Yipeng Qin .
• Cardiff University College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Impact Acceleration Account, 2023
  £30,000
  Competitive funding awarded to further development of ViewfindR (now available for licensing! Get in touch if you would like to know more).
• Cardiff University College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Impact Acceleration Account, 2023
  £7,792
  Competitive funding awarded to further participate in the Being Human Festival. Our exhibition was titled "In Conversation with the AI".
• Cardiff University College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Seedcorn Funding, 2022
  £800
  Competitive funding awarded to fund a workshop on co-production and serious games, with Dr Esther Wright.
• Cardiff University College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Impact Acceleration Account, 2022
  £10,000
  Competitive funding awarded to fund a pilot study exploring games for cultural heritage.
• Cardiff University College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Vice Chancellor's Scholarship, 2022
  £100,000
  Competitive funding awarded to fund a PhD scholarship on co-production and serious games, with Dr Esther Wright.
• Cardiff University College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Seedcorn Funding, 2022
  £4,000
  Competitive funding awarded for two projects investigating virtual and mixed reality as a tool for evaluating gamified learning environments, with Dr Geraldine Latchem-Hastings.
• GW4, 2022
  £15,000
  Competitive funding awarded for to investigate gamified experiences for the Bath Assembly Rooms, with Prof Tim Cole and Prof Eamonn O'Neill.
• Cardiff University Innovation for All Fund, 2021
  £23,750
  Competitive funding awarded from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) to build ViewfindR prototype version 2.0, a virtual learning environment for teaching students in video journalism to develop their creative skills and plan for filming.
• Cardiff University (HEFCW) Global Challenges Research Fund Facilitation Grant, 2021
  £1,900
  Competitive funding awarded to conduct a workshop with colleagues in IIT Ropar, India, around IoT and VR in healthcare.
• US National Academy of Medicine Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge, 2021
  Catalyst Award
  £62,500
  https://healthylongevitychallenge.org/winners/exploring-how-to-use-mixed-reality-and-telepresence-to-tackle-lonliness-and-reduce-feelings-of-social-isolation/
  Competitive funding awarded from the UKRI's Economics & Social Science Research Council (ESRC) to explore mixed reality in the context of community building interventions for tackling loneliness and reducing feelings of isolation.
  Heritage Dot Bursary, 2019
  £175
  Awarded to present work on developing Serious Games for a Social Change at the Heritage Dot Conference at the University of Lincoln, June 2019
  http://heritagedot.org/

Awards

• Enriching Student Life Award, 2022
  Shortlisted for "Most Innovative Member of Staff" category
  Nominated by the Student's Union at Cardiff University
• Recognizing Excellence Scheme, 2018
  Merit Payment for Exceptional Performance
  Awarded by the Faculty of Science, University of Bath
• Best Accessible Game, 2014
  Audio Defence: Zombine Arena
  Awarded by TIGA
• Distinguished Project, 2014
  Reindeer & Wolves
  UBIComp Summer School (UBISS)
  Awarded by Prof Floyd Mueller
• Best Final Year Project, 2012
  Object Detection in 2D and 3D Images
  Awarded by Deloitte
• Best Final Year Project, 2012
  Object Detection in 2D and 3D Images
  Awarded by UCD School of Computer Science