My teaching is research-led and interdisciplinary, helping students reason with models, data, technology, and evidence across computational cognitive science, psychophysics, HCI, XR, and perception.
Teaching
- Lead and develop the MSc module Mind, Brain, and Models, where students simulate perceptual and cognitive systems, compare quantitative models, and write reproducible scientific reports.
- Contribute to postgraduate and interdisciplinary teaching in computational methods, psychophysics, HCI, VR, data science, and perception.
- Founded and directed the MSc in Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics, served as interim Director of MSc Psychology, and acted as external examiner for postgraduate programmes at Durham University.
Supervision
I supervise doctoral researchers, postdoctoral researchers, MSc students, undergraduate projects, internships, and volunteer placements across Psychology, Computer Science, computational neuroscience, HCI, XR, haptics, music interaction, and human-AI research.
My supervision record includes 50+ postgraduate taught and research projects and 66+ undergraduate projects, internships, and volunteer placements. Projects often connect students with the University of Birmingham VR Lab, BhamXR, ARME, EXPLORA, Locomotion Vault, and XR Text Trove.
Former supervisees and project students have moved into academic, technology, public-sector, and creative-industry roles, including Meta/Facebook, Google, Amazon, MIT, Disney/Ultraleap, the Office for National Statistics, the UN, Nottingham Trent University, McGill, University College Dublin, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, and the University of Stuttgart/LMU.
Student routes into research
Students can get involved through PhD supervision, MSc and BSc projects, internships, research assistant roles, volunteering, and technically grounded XR project work. Current VR Lab routes include perception experiments, motion capture, haptics, accessibility, immersive interaction, AI-supported XR tools, and applied VR/AR/MR systems.
Students interested in lab-based roles should start with the VR Lab opportunities page, then get in touch through either my contact page or the VR Lab contact page.
