I have set up a Digital Mental Health Group at Victoria University of Wellington. This mental health group is a collaboration with Health and Design. I am continuing my work from Norway where I set up Games for Health Norway.
Our current research is on Mobile mini-games for Mental Health. This is a co-design process with teenagers to develop games which use the best of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and game design to help give people more mental health tools. It also allows us to start the conversation about mental health from a solution focus rather then a problem focus.
I have had many students working on Health related research:
Perhaps the largest threat to our way of life is the risk of positive feedback loops as part of climate change. Controlling and limiting our Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and transitioning our economy is essential for our children.
My research related to climate change includes: