Curriculum Vitae

Sue Thomas PhD
http://suethomas.net
Professor of New Media, Faculty of Humanities & Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK Tel: +44 (0)116 207 8266 sue.thomas @ dmu ac uk

Education
2005    PhD: A Journey of Integration: virtuality and physicality in a computer-mediated environment, Nottingham Trent University
1988    BA (Hons) Humanities, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham

Employment
2005-            Professor of New Media, Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University
2003-2004    Reader in New Media & Artistic Director, trAce, Nottingham Trent University
2002             Visiting Scholar, Dept of English, University of California at Los Angeles
1997-2003    Artistic Director, trAce Online Writing Centre, Nottingham Trent University
1998             Visiting Faculty in English, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
1994-1997    Senior Lecturer in English, Nottingham Trent University
1988-1994    Part-time Lecturer in English, Nottingham Trent University

Funding Awards
2008 DTI/HEIF/DMU Narrative Laboratory for the Creative Industries £96,648
2007 British Academy Small Research Grant for Nature Metaphors in Virtual Landscapes £5,235
2006 Arts Council England Digital Writer-in-Residence £37,500
2006 DTI/HEIF/DMU Narrative Laboratory for the Creative Industries £50,000
2005 AHRC Interdisciplinary applications of experimental social software to the study of narrative in digital contexts £45,955
2005 AHRC The Production Ecology of Pre-School Television in Britain (PI Prof J Steemers) £122,356
2005 DTI/HEIF/DMU Narrative Laboratory for the Creative Industries £30,000
2004 ACE trAce, Arts Council England Development Grant, £31,500
2003 ACE 2004 Incubation International Conference on Writing & the Internet £17,000
2003 ACE Bursaries, 2004 Incubation International Conference on Writing & the Internet £5,000
2003 ACE trAce, Arts Council England Development Grant, £31,000
2002 NESTA National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts £220,000   
2002 NESTA National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts £20,000
2002 AHRB Arts & Humanities Research Board £4700
2002 ACE Regional Arts Lottery Project for 2002 Incubation Conference £17,000
2002 ACE Arts Council of England for the 2002 Incubation Conference £2,500
2002 AHRB Arts & Humanities Research Board Innovations Award £47,000
2002 ACE trAce, East Midlands Arts Development Grant, £31,000
2001 ACE trAce, East Midlands Arts Development Grant, £31,000
2000 ACE trAce, East Midlands Arts Development Grant, £28,000
2000 EU Migrating Memories, European Culture 2000, £22,722
2000 Arts Council England, Web, Warp & Weft online writing, Year of the Artist Award, £2870
1997 Arts Council of England, trAce Online Writing Community £356,000

Committees & Memberships

• Partner, Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology, Sydney
• Member, Programme Committee, Creativity & Cognition: Seeding Creativity – Tools, Media and Environments, ACM SIGCHI 2007
• Member, Programme Committee, Symposium on AI and Narrative Games for Education, University of Newcastle, AISB 2007
• Editorial Board, Convergence International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
• Member, Programme Committee Digital Resources in Humanities and the Arts Conference 2006
• Member, Programme Committee, Symposium on Narrative AI and Games, at AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, University of Bristol, April 2006.
• Peer Reviewer, Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour & Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems
• Literary Advisor, The British Council
• Literary Advisor, The Electronic Literature Organization
• Editorial Board, Scan: Journal of Media Arts and Culture, Macquarie University, Australia

 

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