Dr Helen Jackson

Overview

Helen's research focuses on how emerging media technologies interact in public cultures of economic activity, and how emerging technological forms, such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications, can help everyday users creatively negotiate, mediate, make sense, or even disrupt experiences of various kinds.

As a multi-award-winning researcher, Helen has received numerous national and international prizes for creative practice research projects that have included immersive interpretive apps for smartphones; AR marketing solutions; websites to generate and network communities; digital toolkits for business; and AR and VR interpretive experiences for the heritage and museum sectors.

Teaching

With scholarly expertise in media technologies and their deployment in the creative media sector Helen has taught for 18 years on the Interactive Media/ Digital Media Production degree in the School of Communication and Media, a unique multidisciplinary degree that gives students knowledge and skills to work across a wide range of media and technical disciplines in the creative media sector.

Helen’s pedagogic priority has been to embed employability and develop graduate attributes that bridge the gap between traditional media practices and their modern technologically facilitated counterparts.

Helen’s academic excellence is also found in her learning enhancement projects that support entrepreneurial endeavour, and the development of the business attributes required to prepare graduates for successful careers in the creative media sector.

Research Opportunities