People

Institute Director

Professor Ross Parry

• Leads the international research consortium ('One by One' - building digitally confident museums)
• Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Board member for Attenborough Arts Centre (Leicester)
• Founding Trustee of the Jodi Mattes Trust - for accessible digital culture
• Steering Committee member of the UKRI / AHRC £19mn digital cultural heritage initiative ‘Towards a National Collection’
• Listed in the Education Foundation’s ‘EdTech50’ - the fifty most influential people in the UK education and technology sectors.

Institute Deputy Director

Professor Andrew Hugill

• Founding Professor of Creative Computing at the University of Leicester
• Professor of Music, composer and musicologist
• With a transdisciplinary approach, Andrew works across artistic and scientific disciplines
• Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Board member for Attenborough Arts Centre (Leicester) and MBD Ltd
• Director of the Aural Diversity Network

Research theme leads

Cristina Galalae

• Lecturer in Marketing

Georgiana Grigore

• Associate Professor in Marketing

Stefano De Sabbata

• Associate Professor of Geographical Information Science

Institute fellows

Alex Kviat

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Hongji Yang

• Professor of Creative Computing

Rogerio da Silva

• Lecturer in Creative Computing

Fabricio Goes

• Lecturer in Creative Computing

Marco Volpe

• Lecturer in Creative Computing

Zhuolin Li

• ‘Future 100’ PhD researcher, Museum Studies / David Wilson Library

Clarissa Wilson

• ‘Future 100’ PhD researcher, Museum Studies / Barker Langham Ltd

Kathleen Lawther

• ‘Future 100’ PhD researcher, Museum Studies / Art UK / Collections Trust

Honorary research fellows

Sophie Frost

• Honorary Research Fellow

Creative in Residence

Paul Long

• Director, MBD Ltd

Wellcome Trust Creative Engagement Fellow

Rosa Francesca

• Artist