Karen is Professor of Digital Transformation Design and Academic Lead of Connected Futures R&E at the University of Brighton, including Digital Economy, Immersive & Simulations; Digital Health and Complexity & Design.
She also heads up two innovation ecosystems; an ERDF funded £1.3m big data project with Gatwick in an LGF B2B Data Innovation Lab and Digital Catapults’ £1.2m 5G Brighton project, the UK’s first 5G Testbed off a research site aimed at SMEs, and a named part of the Govts 5G Strategy.
She has worked in e-commerce, games, e-health, e-learning, heritage & the arts, FinTech and military & defence with iOS, Android, Windows, Cloud, Xbox, Playstation & Drones; digital audio and video, MIDI, haptics, holography, stereoscopy and AR/VR; sensor tech, biometrics (inc. eye tracking, facial recognition, EEG, EMG, GSR), computer vision, machine learning, predictive analytics, big data, automatic signal recognition and designing A.I.s.
She is a Women In Games Ambassador, as part of Google Women Tech Makers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a NED for Nest, the UK Govts £10bn pension fund with 12m users, where she advises on CX and PPP digital transformation of FinTech. Clients include Which?, Top Shop & EY.
