Funding

Total grant income: £272,294.00 (For unsuccessful applications, see here).

• EU COST Action Short Term Scientific Mission, June - August 2024
  £1,700.00
  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 AHSS College, November - December 2025
  £15,000.00
  Competitive funding awarded to fund a pilot study exploring chattable avatars for museums, with Dr Yipeng Qin

• UKRI IAA, September 2022 - March 2023
  £10,000.00
  Competitive funding awarded to fund a pilot study exploring games for cultural heritage.

• Cardiff University AHSS College, November - December 2024
  £30,000.00
  Competitive funding awarded to further development of ViewfindR (now available for licensing! Get in touch if you would like to know more).

• Cardiff University AHSS College, November - December 2023
  £7,792.00
  Competitive funding awarded to further participate in the Being Human Festival. Our exhibition was titled "In Conversation with the AI".

• Cardiff University AHSS College, September 2022 - December 2022
  £800.00
  Competitive funding awarded to fund a workshop on co-production and serious games, with Dr Esther Wright.

• Cardiff University Vice Chancellor Strategic Fund, September 2022 - September 2024
  £100,000.00
  Competitive funding awarded to fund a PhD scholarship on co-production and serious games, with Dr Esther Wright.

• CUSEIP, June 2022 - August 2022
  £2,000.00
  Competitive funding awarded for two projects investigating virtual and mixed reality as a tool for evaluating gamified learning environments, with Dr Geraldine Latchem-Hastings.

• CUROP, June 2022 - August 2022
  £2,000.00
  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, January 2022 - September 2022
  £15,000.00
  Competitive funding awarded for to investigate gamified experiences for the Bath Assembly Rooms, with Prof Tim Cole and Prof Eamonn O'Neill.

• Innovation Project Translational Fund, September 2021 - September 2022
  £23,750.00
  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.

• UKRI GCRF, June 2021 - June 2021
  £1,900.00
  Competitive funding awarded to conduct a workshop with colleagues in IIT Ropar, India, around IoT and VR in healthcare.

• UKRI, September 2021 - September 2022
  £62,177.00
  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, June - 2019 to July 2019
  £175.00
  Competitive funding awarded to present work on developing Serious Games for a Social Change at the Heritage Dot Conference at the University of Lincoln, June 2019