Award-winning ‘SuperConnector’, published author, content marketing & social media expert.
My research interests focus on cross-section of organisational behaviour and innovation management, and particular areas of hybrid organisations, diversity and cross-p...
Fusion aims to bring the skills, working practices and values from different sectors together to generate knowledge and innovation.
This project is exciting bec...
My focus lies within the context of product, service and strategic design, design-led innovation, social innovation, co-creation and the development of novel design me...
I believe that design and design-thinking can bring light to complex and wicked problems, both within manufacture, industry, technology and societal issues.
My ...
Big data is transforming almost every aspect of science and the humanities. Turning big data into actionable, personalized and profitable outcome depends on collaborat...
“The growth of the Creative, Digital and IT sector is absolutely vital for the economy. However, as many of these businesses are small ...
As Director of UK Corporate Affairs for Ubisoft, I am primarily focused on ensuring the optimal environment for games development to flourish in the UK, as well as loo...
As CEO of Generator, Jim Mawdsley oversees the agency’s work to build and strengthen regional music and creative digital businesses.Jim is currently an active board ...
Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Herb is best known as Founder of the long-running Thinking Digital Conference. The 8th Annual Thinking Digital Conference takes place in...
Phil Jones is currently Managing Director of Wired Sussex. In this capacity he advises a wide number of digital media companies and oversees the agency’s various pro...
As COO of Eutechnyx, Darren Jobling helped build one of the world’s largest independent developers, specialising in racing and driving games.
He established Z...
Lorraine Heggessey was the first ever female BBC One controller and is now a lauded keynote speaker, media consultant, and television producer.
Successful and ...
Laura leads the delivery of the Arts Council’s second strategic goal: that everyone has the opportunity to experience and to be inspired by the arts, museums and lib...
David is the current CEO of Sunderland Software City, a nationally recognised technology sector support body.
Prior to this regionally important role David held...
David Docherty is Chief Executive of the National Centre for Universities and Business, and Chairman of the Digital Television Group, the industry body for digital tel...
Frank Boyd is Director of the Knowledge Transfer Network leading its programmes in the Creative Industries, the Digital Economy and Design....
I am Joint Director of the Institute for Advanced Research in Computing (iARC), Durham University & Lecturer, Digital Communications, Durham University Business Sc...
Dr Xiaoxian Zhu is a senior lecturer in Human Resource Development at Teesside University.
She is a member of CIPD and a subject examiner of international exami...
I’m particularly interested in the role of universities in supporting local growth and innovation and whether the drivers and barriers for businesses in the CDIT sec...
Design means business!
My interest is in the role design plays in the strategic innovation process in multinational industries.
My ambition is to fit des...
I was Academic Director of Brighton Fuse, which showed the power of Creative-Digital- IT fusion for business growth and innovation.
Our research evidence influe...
I’m a stout believer in interdisciplinary research as a vehicle to shift mindsets and move from entrenched, siloed thinking to long-term contextual perspectives....
I manage the Digital Institute at Newcastle University where our work spans research, teaching and innovation through engagement with external organisations.
We...
I’m passionate about the concept of Fusion and it’s application within a range of contexts; business, health, history and creative practices.
I particularly...
Working in partnership, collaborating and engaging in the Region is at the heart of my work and central to teaching learning and research making a real difference to p...
I have been involved in this project since it was very first suggested that AHRC would like the five universities in the North East to draw on the findings and approac...
I am inspired by the idea of Fusion as I have seen firsthand how third sector organisations can embrace social enterprise to take their businesses on to the next level...
Presently I am a Research Associate on phase of the project which aims to understand the nature of the creative, digital, and IT sectors in the North East of England.<...
I’m interested in the use of design and other creative practices across a broad range of economic activities, both inside and outside the CDIT sector.
Creativ...
Nick Holliman is Professor of Visualization at Newcastle University, he researches the science and engineering of interactive media including the fundamental challenge...
I’ve done a lot of research into changes in the television industry; and advertising.
Fusion is a great opportunity to work with the creative sector to produc...
Intersections, joins, and fuses between people, practices, and concepts are where some of the most creative and innovative ideas and practices emerge.
Through F...
When we suspend traditional boundaries of discipline or company or community and the agendas they serve, how might we work together and what could we do?
How ca...
Interdisciplinarity and innovation are powerful sociocultural concepts.
As an ethnographer I am keen to understand better how people in their everyday lives mob...
I am an interdisciplinary social scientist fascinated by how new technologies alter the sociocultural landscape, mediating the ways in which we understand the world ar...
Sharon is a reader at the University of Sunderland and a psychologist who specialises in Human-Computer Interaction. My research focuses on understanding and improvin...
Lynne Hall is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sunderland, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and of the British Computer Society. She ha...
Andrew works as a senior lecturer in Interactive Media and Motion Graphics and his background combines both academic and practical work. His research has included exam...
My area of research expertise is human-technology interaction, with a particular emphasis on how our ways of thinking and experiencing the world are transformed by the...
I firmly believe that collaborations between universities and other sectors mutually benefit all involved, collectively identifying problems that are best addressed to...
Meaningful innovation happens at the intersection of different disciplines where the knowledge, know-how and expertise of multiple actors comes together around a commo...
Prof. Arabella Plouviez is Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Creative Industries and Professor of Photography at the University of Sunderland and is Sunderland’s aca...
I am a passionate researcher, project manager and award winning public engager, specialising in digital impact, engagement and user experience in in a cultural heritag...
Hamid is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Law at the University of Sunderland and leader of the University’s Enterprise Research Cluster.
As a Senior lecture...
I am looking forward to testing our innovative clustering methodology in order to map the the Fusion related business clusters.
The findings should provide inte...
I am a keen advocate of partnership working and working across different sectors and disciplines, a concept that is at the core of Creative Fuse North East. My researc...
I’m particularly interested in the relationship between universities and the creative, cultural and digital sector in the North East around the model of the civic un...
We collaborate with companies regionally, nationally and internationally to allow the skills and methods we develop in our research projects to be applied to real-worl...
Mark has over 15 years practising knowledge working across the creative, cultural and digital sectors and broader knowledge economy. He has operated at senior strategi...
Carl has an interest in a broad range of design areas and has worked for a number of years teaching on various Animation and Design programmes at the University of Sun...
Suzy O’Hara is a digital art curator and researcher based at the University of Sunderland. Through her research and her role as Innovation Development Executive for ...
Lee’s background is as an experienced multi-platform journalist. He started his career by launching the Liverpool Student newspaper then began a long and continuing ...
Beryl Graham is Professor of New Media Art at the University of Sunderland, and is co-founder of the CRUMB platform for curators of new media art. She has curated the ...
He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Royal Television Society and the Design Research So...
Erin trained as an architect before moving to glass, and then on to digital technology. She has experience in digital drawing, modelling and production, and enjoys wor...
Combining different approaches and different disciplines is a risk, but through challenge and disruption we learn, explore and innovate. If we take risks, fail fast an...
I’m passionate about the concept of Fusion within businesses because I have seen it directly impact not only on productivity, innovation and the bottom line, but mor...
