Biography
Gregor White聽is Dean of Design & Informatics and Professor of Applied Creativity. He has led the School of Design and Informatics since 2015 and has held a range of academic and聽managerial roles in the聽institution since 2004.聽Since his appointment as Head of School he has led a number of transformation projects to restructure the programme portfolio, develop a focused research strategy and has recently embarked on an estates transformation project for聽students and staff accommodation in聽the聽school.聽
Gregor's聽research interests are in the area of digital interactive entertainment in relation to both product development and online audience innovation. He has studied online social media consumption from demographic and aesthetic perspective and has a specific interest in collaborative and participatory design and development processes. In 2017 he initiated and led funding bids to AHRC, Scottish and UK Governments to support聽the establishment of three collaborative research centers聽for Games (InGAME), Cyebersecurity (cyberQuarter) and AI/ML and Date Analytics (The Emergent Technology Centre). The success of these proposals represents an investment of around 拢40million in Dundee's digital economy. 聽Externally he is a member of the AHRC Strategic Review College, he is Co-Director of the Creative Economy Hub for the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, and is a Management Board member of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Association.聽
He is currently Co-Director of . Most recently he has been聽Co-Investigator on Design Innovation for New Growth (AHRC) and has been聽Principal Investigator on聽, an AHRC Video Games Network in partnership with the V&A Museum,聽聽and Co-Investigator with聽, an AHRC Knowledge Exchange Hub.
Previous research project leadership聽includes Principle investigator on the聽聽knowledge exchange project funded through the Scottish Funding Councils Spirit programme (SFC 2009).聽Moving Targets seeks to create an innovative and sustainable knowledge exchange mechanism, which fulfils the Scottish Creative Media sector's need to respond to the emerging market trends of global consumers by devising and developing new models to engage new audiences. Demand-led by industry, Moving Targets facilitates the flow of knowledge between the key researchers, producers, policy makers and consumers of Creative Media. http://www.participations.org/Volume%2010/Issue%202/contents.htm
Gregor is also Co-Investigator on an Intellectual Property Office聽聽concerned with the creation of an open IP platform for easy access to digital media products and assets generated through development and production projects in the University. 聽He supervised the research and compilation of聽: The cases of Television, Computer Games and Music,聽for the IPO.
