Ms Ania Bobrowicz

Ania Bobrowicz is a Honorary Academic in Digital Arts, where she has taught visual communication, interaction design and professional practice. Her background is in Art History, Applied Linguistics (Russian and English), and Multimedia Systems. She is a course director of three undergraduate digital media courses as well as industrial placement tutor. She has industrial as well as public sector experience, having worked for American software house Ashton-Tate/Borland, British Telecom, BBC Russian Service, and Health Education Authority. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.  

Her research interests are inter-disciplinary and include art, human-computer interaction, and cultural heritage. Particular areas of interest are enthnographic studies of people with dementia using digital art, ethical considerations of using, storing and accessing data online, Islamic art and digital media, visitors' engagement with museums via digital artefacts. Of particular interest is the role of empathy in the design of interactive digital systems.

• Older and Younger Adults' Interactions with Cultural Heritage Artefacts Outside a Museum - Genevieve Alelis (completed)
  
• Digitally Queer: The use of Video-Mediated Communication within the Gay and Lesbian Community - Mike Green (completed)
  
• Pigment to Pixel: An Investigation into Digital Islamic Art in the UK - Sara Choudhrey (completed)
  
• Re-framing Dementia: Artistic investigation in the process of co-creating traditional and digital sculpture - Sumita Chauhan
  

• Fellow of Royal Society of Arts
  
• Arts Council Quality Assessor
  
• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts