Games Degree Staff

This page introduces some of the staff involved in teaching the games degree. It is by no means a complete list, but these people are module tutors, or involved with the core games-specific teaching. See course content for more details of the modules.

Dan Hodgson Dan is the course leader for the degree, and he teaches on Computer Games Design, Programming for Games 4 and the Games Case Project. His research interests include games design, ludology, games analysis and the social and ethical aspects of games. He is an active member of IGDA (the International Games Developer's Association) and has published several articles in Develop magazine.
	Chris Rook Chris is assistant course leader for the games degree, and teaches Programming 1, 2 and 3 for Games, AI for Computer Games and the Games Case Project. His research interests are focussed on AI in games settings, especially a technique called "Ant Algorithms". Website
Alf Watson Alf is module tutor for Multimedia Assets for Computer Games, and has specialist interests in games, visualisation and virtual reality. We have no picture of Alf.
Dave Harrison Dave is module tutor for Programming for Games 1, Programming for Games 3 and Computer Systems Fundamentals. Dave is a "hardcore Computist" and has special interests in functional programming, denotational semantics and heuristic methods. . Website
	Michael Brockway Michael is involved with teaching Programming for Games 4. His research interests include concurrent programming and embedded systems.
Emil Petkov Emil is module tutor for Game Systems Architecture and Advanced Architecture for Game Systems. He has a broad range of teaching and research interests.
	Maia Angelova Maia is a Professor of Mathematics and teaches Maths for Games 1. Her research interests include theoretical physics, mathematical physics, applied mathematics, group theory, algebraic methods and applications to magnetism and crystal fields, molecular physics, mathematical crystallography, structures and electron-phonon properties of fullerenes, aperiodic order in quasicrystals, mathematics of finance, bioinformatics and data mining. Website