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Meet the Team

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Jussi Holopainen

Jussi is a Senior Lecturer and deputy programme director in Games Computing. He teaches, and researchers, game design while his other research interests include more general interaction design issues, especially related to synthetic media.

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Ananda Breed

Ananda is Professor in Theatre; Principal Investigator of an AHRC GCRF Network Plus project entitled Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal; and Co-Investigator of another AHRC GCRF Network Plus project entitled Changing the Story. Her research interests include performance studies, peace and conflict studies, memory studies, and transitional justice studies.

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Gyles Lingwood

Gyles is Director of Education (Arts) at the University of Lincoln and Festival Director of the annual Lincoln Festival of Creativity.

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Rachel Bryant

Rachel shares the role of Transported Programme Manager with Anna, our other Transported programme Manager!

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Sophie Arnold

Sophie is the Marketing and Communications Coordinator for Transported. Her job is to make sure as many people as possible know about the fantastic work that Transported deliver across Boston and South Holland.

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Stefanos Kollias

Stefanos is Professor of Machine Learning in School of Computer Science at University of Lincoln; He has been Professor in Computer Science at National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He has also been involved in the field of Digital Libraries for 15 years.

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James Shorthose

James’ role within the School of Design is to lead on its Contextual Studies teaching and act as Programme Leader for MA Design. It also involves research – into theories of creativity, creative industries and creative issues.

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Ian Snowley

Ian is Dean of Student Learning Development and University Librarian at the University of Lincoln, with overall responsibility for Archive Collections in the University and The University Art Collection. He has a role in facilitating the University’s partnerships with external bodies in respect of libraries and archives, and is currently working to support the development of reading and writing in the local community.

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Dominic Symonds

Dominic is Professor of Musical Theatre and Director of Research in the School of Fine and Performing Arts. He also writes and directs professionally for the musical stage. Research interests include Broadway and British musical theatre, migration, collaboration and performance cartography.

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Sukhy Johal MBE

Sukhy is the founding Director of the Centre. He is an all-round champion of the arts and creative thinking, and is passionate about the difference they make to lives and places.

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Adam Fleming

Adam is the Project Assistant Intern at the Centre, assisting in the administration of C4CC’s internal and external projects, and helping to support the breadth of activity generated by our team. He is a writer, who is passionate about film and literature.

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Julian Hanby

Julian manages the projects and the daily business of Lincolnshire One Venues (LOV). His role supports LOV as it fulfils its ambitions around creating high-quality participatory work in communities, the development of artists, looking to engage new audiences and building resilience in the organisation.

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Harriet Gross

Harriet is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, having retired from Lincoln after 13 exciting years. As a Fellow in the C4CC, her role is to inspire, share and develop creative activities for students and staff across the university.

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Victoria Briggs

Victoria Briggs is Personal Assistant to the Director of the Centre for Culture & Creativity.

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Dr Anna Scott

Anna is the Project Assistant for the Heritage Dot Conference, taking place on 3-4 June 2019 at the University of Lincoln. Heritage Dot is Lincoln’s inaugural digital heritage conference, aimed at academics and practitioners from across the heritage sector. Anna is a heritage consultant and public historian who is interested in the question of how and why we use the past.

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Nick Jones

Nick is the Director of Transported, the Arts Council-funded Creative People and Places programme for Boston and South Holland. Nick first moved to Lincoln in 1982 to work for Lincoln Community Arts. He later founded the artsNK rural arts team, reflecting his commitment to socially-engaged practice.

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Lauren Williams

Lauren is the aerial lead for the Transported Aerial Dance Programme. She teaches many of the classes, deals with all the programming needs, equipment safety and staff.

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