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Stephen is a Lecturer in Humanities, specialising in Media Practice, located in the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities at UEA. In the Institute,He teaches the Media in Practice, Creative and Cultural Industries modules on the Foundation year course. He also teaches a level5 module VIDEOGAMES: THEORY, PRACTICE AND RECEPTION and supervises level 6 creative practice students. He is also the academic lead for the faculty's Media Suite.
Stephen has had a varied career in the music, music technology, television, and film and multimedia fields prior to his work at UEA, as well as a background in research science. A long-term contributor to the UK’s most popular monthly music technology magazine, Sound on Sound, he’s also written several books and other articles on the same subject. His name has appeared on the credit list of albums alongside Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine), David Torn (David Bowie), Tim Bowness (No-Man), Robert Fripp (King Crimson) and Roger Eno.
His current interests include Digital humanities, the history of recorded sound, the ephemera of digital and the interface of physical controllers, open source hardware and computers to manipulate and play ‘old school’ analog synthesisers. His work also covers the use of emerging VR/AR technologies in the humanities and the use of machine learning and expert systems (AI) in video game sound.
Stephen’s field of research concerns the study of ephemeral digital technologies within the field of music technology, computer-based learning technologies, emergent technologies.
Sound studies
Media Practice
Cultural and creative industries
Technological resources for students
Recording and studio skills
Creative music and media technology
Video games
Science communication
Placements and careers
Teaching Director AMA
Academic partnerships
Faculty Appeals and Complaints SSF
Faculty Appeals and Complaints HUM
UEA VR user group
Adobe creative campus working group
Digital media
Media technology
Audio production
Video production
Videogames
Learning technologies
Placements
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Award Date: 1 Dec 2019
Master of Education, Masters in Education, University of East Anglia
Award Date: 1 Feb 2016
Bachelor of Science, Biology, Liverpool John Moores University
Award Date: 1 Apr 1981
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Book/Report › Book