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Professor Mark Perry
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Looking to supervise PhD students (doctoral researchers) in the following areas:

I am interested in supervising doctoral students with experience in 'user studies' research, and an understanding of Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or User Experience Design–with any disciplinary background–from anthropology to psychology, artificial intelligence to design.

My particular interest in this lies in the use and design of social or collaborative computer systems, but I have a very broad interpretation of what this may involve, such as making a payment or adding a social media reactionm, as well as more complex forms of digitally-mediated social engagement. It would help to have an interest or experience in the use of qualitative research methods, including ethnography and video analysis, or using approaches drawing from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis in the following application areas: 

  • Digitial Money and Payments
    • Digital Financial Services
    • Mobile Money/ Currencies
    • Blockchain or Cryptocurrency Interactions
    • Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
    • Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)
    • Collaborative/ Social Financial Interactions
    • Financial Interactions in the Global South
  • Family and Domestic Technologies
    • In-vehicle Interactions (eg. location-based games, autonomous driving experiences, collaborative navigation)
    • Shared family displays
    • Smart home devices
    • Haptic and touchless interactions with displays

Applicants are recommended to closely look at my publications and research interests before applying to ensure that I am a suitable advisor. Critically, I am a qualitative researcher, and any applications should address this. I will reject applications obviously written by Generative AI: I am interested in your ideas and research abilities, not those of ChatGPT, Gemini or any other LLM!

 no AI

Research supervision

Ongoing

  • Currently none - if you would like to apply to do a PhD with me, please make contact! 

Previous

  • Satjawisate, S. (2025) Collaborative work enabling transparency and accountability in government payment systems
  • Tasoudis, S. (2020) Remote participatory automobile interactions
  • Abdulhamid, N. (2019) Collaborative technologies in digital disaster response work
  • Roubert, F. (2018) Collaboration in massively distributed nanoscience
  • Cycil, C. (2015) Technology and the family car: situating media use in family life
  • Zarabi, R. (2011) Storing, caring and sharing: examining organisational practices around material stuff in the home
  • Swan, L. (2011) Home/work: implications for domestic technologies
  • Shangar, C. (2009) Ubiquitous proximity-sensitive systems
  • Kanis, M. (2009) Mobile technology and socio-affective computing
  • Brodie, J. (2004) Supporting communication on the move: user activities and implications for mobile technology design
  • Spinelli, G. (2004) Distributed Cognition: Artefacts and computational space for collaborative problem solving
  • Cole, J. (2002) Media Use and CSCW: A socio-organisational computational description of accounting activities