Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

I run hex induction, a company that designs and delivers performances, training, hands-on workshops, talks, seminars, facilitation and strategy tools for organisations, conferences and events based on original research into performance, play, mystery, interaction and The Secrets of The Two Little Balls of Silver.

These lovely things can probably be tailored to suit your needs. Just ask.

hex has had a whale of a time with game designers, street performers, genetic scientists, hypnotists, iPhone App developers, Peruvian mindreaders, green architects, bizarre magicians, experience designers, puppeteers, card counters, TV and radio scriptwriters, grifters, new media producers, performance poets, cultural industry innovators, Goth academics, teenage inventors, installation artists and The Austrian Robot-Man.

Work History

• hex induction
• boss
• October 2002 to Present

• hex designs and delivers performances, training, hands-on workshops, talks, seminars, facilitation and strategy tools for organisations, conferences and events based on original research into performance, play, mystery, interaction and The Secrets of The Two Little Balls of Silver.

• Oyster Partners
• Cross-platform Media Consultant
• September 1999 to October 2002

• Sole consultant to Oyster clients on Interactive TV.
  Responsible for defining and driving Oyster Interactive TV strategy and founder of the Interactive TV Knowledge Sharing Initiative: Working with Universities to introduce Interactive TV as a subject into Computer Science, Media, and Art and Design courses.

• University of Huddersfield
• Senior Lecturer - Digital Media
• October 2002 to November 2009

• This was a 0.5 post set up to support my hex induction research. My research involved working across schools and with other institutions to develop playful, creative techniques for teaching & learning, management, and strategy (see www.theplayful.com).
  I also led the New Media Culture and Dissertation modules on Digital Media Design courses and taught a Concept Studio module for the Computer Game Design BA. The University nominated me for a National Teaching Fellowship.

• NESTA
• Fellow
• April 2003 to April 2006

• I was nominated for a National Endowment for Science Technology and Art (NESTA) Fellowship in recognition of my, "worldwide reputation for innovation in interactive media design and unique contribution to novel yet practical methods for fostering creativity in business."(NESTA Awardee Profile)
  The Fellowship funded my research for 3 years and enabled me to set up hex induction (www.hexinduction.com)

• Two Way TV
• Interactive TV Producer
• January 1993 to September 1997

• Design and build of over 25 Interactive TV applications.

• Manchester Metropolitan University
• Research Fellow
• September 1997 to September 1999

• Consultant on Interactive TV and Learning to the Training and Enterprise Council (T.E.C), the University for Industry (UfI) and the European Commission report, "Development of Satellite and Terrestrial Digital Broadcasting Systems and Services and Implications for Education and Training."

Education

• NESTA
• Fellow
• 2002 - 2005

• Manchester Metropolitan UNiversity
• Research Fellow
• 1997 - 1998

• The Open University
• MA Open and Distance Learning
• 1996 - 1997

• University of Manchester
• BSc Cell Biology
• 1989 - 1992