Discipline: research

Investigation and enquiry, academic or practice-based.

Eyebrow Communication

Voice and communication coaching for presenters, actors and anyone who uses their voice! * Run 1 to 1 sessions and group workshops. * Work in drama school settings (including Arts1 in MK), in professional theatre across UK and in corporate spaces. * Adaptive practice is a big part of the work- communication comes in many … Eyebrow Communication

Dissertation – The Creative Class Thesis in New Towns: A look at Talent Attraction and Retention in Milton Keynes

Addressing human capital flight and talent migrations, this paper assesses the applicability and effectiveness of Richard Florida’s creative class thesis in a new town context. Using the case study of Milton Keynes in the UK, the paper investigates Florida’s thesis by exploring its themes in interviews, questionnaire surveys and secondary data. Fifteen participants were interviewed, … Dissertation – The Creative Class Thesis in New Towns: A look at Talent Attraction and Retention in Milton Keynes

Knowledge Media Institute (Open University)

At the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), we transform bold ideas into innovative technologies with real-world impact on society and the environment. We understand technology, and people, and how to harness the latest technical advancements to tackle today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. For over 30 years, KMi has led AI-driven breakthroughs in knowledge and science, reinforcing research, … Knowledge Media Institute (Open University)

MK:Smart

MK:Smart is a smart-city research and innovation programme that has made Milton Keynes a leading UK Smart City since 2014. Led by The Open University with Milton Keynes Council and a range of partners, it builds smart-city infrastructure and citizen-focused innovation across data, IoT, energy, mobility, health and the environment — including work on 5G/advanced … MK:Smart

Music Computing Lab

The Music Computing Lab is a research group in The Open University’s School of Computing and Communications at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. Combining musicology, psychology, ethnography, embodied cognition, mathematics and computing, it develops new interfaces for music creation and learning — tangible, multi-touch and haptic-feedback systems — alongside computational models of music perception (harmony and … Music Computing Lab

The Open University

The Open University is a globally recognised distance-learning university headquartered at Walton Hall in Milton Keynes, founded in 1969 to make higher education accessible to adults anywhere. It has a deep history of educational broadcasting (originally with the BBC) and active research and technology programmes, and has commissioned createch work in the city (e.g. Caroline … The Open University

Open XR Studios

State-of-the-art extended reality facilities funded by the Office for Students (£5.8M) to enhance teaching and learning through augmented and virtual reality. The studios will feature equipment to capture, reproduce and render 4D imagery and deliver immersive, reality-embedded learning to students at home, while serving as a research platform for extended-reality learning scenarios.