Digital Cultural and Creative Research Network

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Communications Law; Intellectual Property Law and Asset Management; Cyber-obscenity; Media Ethics and Media Regulation

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Modernity in Latin America; Visual culture; Space and politics; Memory politics; Human-nature relations; Water, hydraulics, liquid ecologies in the arts; Environmental aesthetics; Photography; Digital culture; Contemporary visual production in Latin America; VENEZUELA RESEARCH NETWORK. With Dr. Penélope Plaza (University of Reading), Dr. Rebecca Jarman (University of Leeds).

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: women's suffrage; literature and history; archival studies; theatre history; First World War in literature; science fiction; animal studies; autobiography; Ellen Terry; Edith Craig; family history; Literature and Law; literature and place

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Public International Law; International Criminal Law; International Law applicable to Information and Communication Technologies, and in Cyberspace; International Humanitarian Law

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Consumer law; Financial consumer law

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: documentary; media practice and theory (creative practice / PaR); amateur cinema; gender and ethnicity in US literature, film, television; island representations; Oceania and the Pacific in film and photography; postcolonial cinemas

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Criminal Law; Data protection; Criminal procedure/human rights; French Law/Comparative Law; Cybercrime and cybersecurity

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Immersive Performance and Participation; Devising and Contemporary Performance-making; Experimental Neuroscience, Selfhood, Embodiment and Body Transfer Illusions in Performance; Science-art Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality, Interactivity, New Technologies and the Digital Humanities; Theatre in the Dark; Theatre Directing; Applied performance, affect and wellbeing

Acting Faculty Dean Research (Arts and Humanities) - Professor (R), Essex Law School

Research interests: Copyright Law and Policy; Law and the Arts; Legal Challenges of AI, Big Data and Blockchain Technology; Personality Rights, Data Protection, and Information Privacy; Internet Law, and Digital Regulation; Trade Mark and Unfair Competition Law

Professor, East 15 Acting School

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: literature and film; comparative media and transmedia; adaptation and translation; technology and digital media; book history and history of reading; interspecies communication and eco-translation; extinction studies and climate fiction

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Humanitarian Law / Law of Armed Conflict; Conduct of Hostilities; Military Occupation; New Military and Law Enforcement Technologies, including Cyber Operations, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Human Enhancement; The Use of Force by States; Self-Defence; the UN Collective Security Framework; Counter-Terrorism.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Chinese and East-Asian Theatre; World and Global Theatres and Literatures; Postdramatic Theatres; Modernism/Postmodernism in drama and literature; Post-war British theatre and theatres in Europe; Contemporary Theatre Practices (directing and producing); Dramaturgy and Playwriting (PaR and Creative practices); Comparative Drama and Literature; Gender Studies and Women's writing

Professor, Essex Law School - Human Rights Centre

Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Romantic period; Walter Scott; Charles Lamb; Scottish literature; Ballads and folk literature; Late 18th Century British and American literature; 19th century British and American literature; Charles Brockden Brown; Periodicals and magazines; Transatlantic studies 18th and 19th century literature; Ecocriticism; Borders and cultural encounters; Environmental literature; Romanticism

Faculty Dean Postgraduate (Humanities) - Senior Lecturer (R), School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Britain and France, ca 1600-1800; Digital History; Medicine and Science; Supernatural; Body; Gender History; Food

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Spectatorship; Histories of modernism; Exhibition design and curation; The relationship between art and politics; The use of digital technologies in museums and galleries; Intersections between pre-modern and modern art

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: UK, EU and global consumer and contract law; commercial law; services of general interest; unfair terms and practices law; quality and safety of goods and services; financial services; digital content law

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Algorithmic Power; Web Scraping; Text Mining; Digital Cultures; Software Studies; Hacker Subcultures; The Dark Web; Science and Technology Studies; Computational Social Science

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Critical theory; Historical sociology; Working-class heritage; Sociology of the media and modern culture; Intellectual history of ethical socialism and cultural criticism; Governmentality studies; Sociology of religion; Cultural policy studies

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Crime and the Media; Cultural and Social Geography; Popular Music and Sociological Thinking; Punishment and Human Rights; Sociology of Imprisonment; Visual Sociology; Youth Culture

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Language Attitudes; Sociolinguistics; Language Variation and Change; Sociophonetics

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Cinema in Portuguese; World cinema; Portuguese language; Language teaching; Internet stardom and fandom; Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL); AI (Artificial Inteligence) & language learning/teaching

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Economic Sociology; Consumer Culture; New Media; Social Theory; STS

Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL); Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL); Robot Assisted Language Learning (RALL); Digital Game-based Language Learning (DGBLL); Second Language Learning/Teaching/Assessment in Virtual and Augmented Reality Contexts

Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Science and Technology Studies; Neuroscience and Society; Dual Use; Responsible Research and Innovation; Medical Anthropology

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Consumption and Commercial Cultures; Advertising and Market Devices; Cultural Studies; Television and the Natural World; Cultures of nature and human-animal relations

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Online and Adaptive Methods for AI and ML; Health Informatics; Computational Intelligence applied to Brain Sciences; Computer Vision and Machine Perception; Deep and Transfer Learning; Reasoning and Modeling Systems in Diagnosis and Prognosis; Natural-language understanding; Generative AI; Soft Computing; Human Machine Interaction

Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Improving subjective well-being through the identification of happiness-enhancing activities; The Darker Side of Seeing Others Kindness

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Problem solving with collective intelligence and distributed human tasking (crowdsourcing/human computation); Citizen science through games, gamification and games-with-a-purpose; Computer vision in 3D modelled environments

Reader, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Computer vision; virtual and augmented reality; genetic programming; remote sensing; unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs)

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Brain-computer interfacing; Machine learning; Signal processing; Functional neural connectivity; EEG; fNIRS; fMRI; Motor control; Motor rehabilitation; Brain stimulation

Executive Dean (Science and Health) - Professor (R), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Multi-agent systems and autonomous adaptive systems; Data exploration analysing and modelling complex data Big data analysis and modelling of structured and unstructured data; Machine learning modelling opponents learning behaviours from data; Reasoning and analytics over multiple streams of data Internet of Things (IoT) reasoning and analytics; Individual and collective user profiles profile adaptation contextualised profiles; Recommender systems collaborative filtering reputation systems; complex systems modelling dynamics of financial systems and markets; Market mechanisms negotiation protocols strategic interaction supply chain management; Semantic matching resource search cloud computing resource allocation; Trust in agent societies trust mechanisms trust in decision making; Formal theories of agents and multi-agent systems BDI agents; Cognitive agents knowledge and belief self-reference; Software engineering methodologies for agents and multi-agent systems; Social dynamics regulation of agent societies roles and power institutions; Self-organisation team formation; Serious games for education and learning collaborative learning

Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Reader, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Visual cognition; Perception of pictures and videos; Eye movements; Cognitive neuropsychology

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Machine learning and artificial intelligence; Computer vision and robotics; Brain-computer interfaces; Multimodal human-machine interaction; Intelligent data and text mining; Signal processing; Pattern recognition; (See also staff research interests by category)

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Computational Intelligence (Fuzzy Logic,Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computation ); Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Immersive Technology (XR, AR, VR, MR); Gamification & Serious Gaming; Game Design; Interactive Design UI/UX

Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Human values; Stereotypes and prejudice; Political psychology; Working from home/remote work; Cross-cultural research; Similarities

Reader, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Sense of Agency; Metacognition; Action Understanding; Multisensory Integration

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: URLLC Use case; 6G Communications; Massive MIMO; Physical Layer Network Coding; Machine Learning for Communication; 5G/Beyond 5G

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Brain-computer interfaces; Neural prostheses and neuromuscular electrical stimulation; Bioelectronics; Rehabilitation engineering; Myoelectric operation of artificial limbs and robotic devices; Biomedical signal analysis; Computational neuroscience; Sensori-motor neurophysiology; Affective computing; Intelligent systems, both artificial and natural; Mathematical modelling of muscle and nerve

Professor, Department of Psychology

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Network coding; Multimedia communications; Information-centric networks; Joint source and channel coding; Semantic Communications; Machine learning for communications; Caching Networks; Multimedia Signal Processing

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Boredom; Nostalgia; Economic psychology; Entropy

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: High-capacity optical network systems; semiconductor laser characteristics; broadband optical receiver design; optical transmission; local access architectures based on arrayed waveguide gratings; video compression