Our People

Professor Richard Harper

Principle Investigator and Co-Director, The Institute for Social Futures.

Richard's research is on the human side of computing and asks such things as what is it people want to do with technologies - and this is not always what technologies were designed for!

Email: r.harper@lancaster.ac.uk

Professor Nigel Davies

Co-Investigator and Co-Director of The Data Science Institute

Email: n.a.davies@lancaster.ac.uk

Professor Charlie Gere

Co-Investigator and Professor of media theory and history at The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Charlie is interested in new ways of thinking and writing about landscape and the environment, especially in the North West

Email: c.gere@lancaster.ac.uk

Professor Jo Knight

Professor of Applied Data Science, Lancaster Medical School and Lancaster University Research Director for Eden North

Jo uses routinely collected health data to improve health outcomes and also works to catalyse other research projects which are attuned to the ethos of the Eden Project.

Email: jo.knight@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Rachel Marshall

Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Lancaster Environment Centre

Rachel's work looks to link communities of practice (from farmers to policy makers) with researchers to enable us to better co-design and develop new ideas, projects and research around the future of food in our place.

Email: r.marshall2@lancaster.ac.uk

Nick King

Partnerships and Impact Manager

Nick's interest is working with stakeholders and communities to identify shared interests and supporting the resulting collaborations in delivering tangible positive impact.

Email: n.king@lancaster.ac.uk

Jan Hollinshead

Senior Research Associate

Jan’s research looks at the relationship between data, people and the places they live - the way data impacts decision making, guides change, and shapes the future.

Email: j.hollinshead1@lancaster.ac.uk

Michael Harding

Research Fellow, Computing and Communications

Mike’s research considers how emerging pervasive technologies can be co-designed to facilitate new practice in the use and management of public infrastructures (e.g. roads, rail)

Email: m.harding@lancaster.ac.uk

Karen Lloyd

Writer in Residence

Karen Lloyd will be looking at ways to build affiliations with communities, ecologists and scientists and others to inform new writing about the north-west and in particular Morecambe Bay and Cumbria.

Email: k.lloyd2@lancaster.ac.uk

Julia Carradus

Future Places and Data Science Administrator (part-time)

Email: j.carradus1@lancaster.ac.uk