Craig Allison
Research Fellow
Engineering and the Environment
University of Southampton
United Kingdom
Biography
Craig Allison is a Senior Research Assistant within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton. Craig completed his undergraduate degree from the University of Southampton in Psychology in 2009. Following a time working in adult education, in partnership between LearnDirect and Portsmouth City Council, Craig became interested in the role of technology in transforming people lives and aspirations. Craig returned to the University of Southampton to complete an MSc in Web Science, based within the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre, School of Electronics and Computer Science. Craig Continued his work with virtual environments into his PhD, exploring how individuals remain oriented within digital environments including 3d virtual worlds and digital maps. Craig is currently based within the Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton, employed on the Future Flight Deck programme, a collaborative research project between the University of Southampton, GE Aviation, BAE Systems and Coventry University exploring human factors in future cockpit design.
Research Interest
My PhD topic was "Exploring Orientation within Geovisualisations and Virtual Nested Environments", funded by EPSRC (Passed Subject to examiners accepting corrections). Supervisors: Dr Edward Redhead (Psychology, University of Southampton) and Richard Treves (Geography, University of Southampton)
