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Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice
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Professor of Immersive Storytelling, Dylan is a researcher and artist specialising in play and storytelling for children. With a doctorate in Education and MA degrees in Research Methods, Early Childhood Education and Japanese Semiotics, her work crosses academia and industry.

Dylan's research sits at the intersection of experimental design and social sciences, focusing on digital storytelling, games and play on a range of platforms such as apps, augmented and virtual reality, as well as new content for television, all with an emphasis on media for children.

As an artist she uses drawing, emerging technologies and game engines to explore experimental visual and multi-modal methods as part of the research process, therefore taking an Experience Design approach to including participants in the research process, also to connect data findings [the information] to design and production [the experience].

University of Sheffield

For more than 20 years, Helen has researched how developments in digital technology are experienced in everyday life. Much of her research has been informed by forms of digital inequality and related mechanisms for change and resistance, for example, class, gender, race, disability, digital labour, digital identity and digital representation.

Helen is currently interested in how big data and ‘datafication’ are experienced by non-expert folk as part of their everyday lives, and strategies for living with data. This involves thinking about how data comes into existence, the socio-political contexts in which they are made and shaped, their politics, and the politics of concepts like data ethics, transparency, accountability, and the potential in data-driven systems for bias, discrimination and harm. Helen is also interested in the role of visual representations of data in society and whether data visualisations can mobilise people to act; and in social media, platform politics and algorithmic culture.

University of Southern Denmark

Thomas is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.

His research focuses on children’s practices with digital media, with an emphasis on voluntary, leisurely, social and playful activities.

At the University of Southern Denmark, he is affiliated with the Digital Democracy Centre and Centre for Primary and Lower Secondary School Research, and chairs the MA programme in Child and Youth Culture.