Tricia Austin is a consultant and researcher at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts in London where she is Course Director of the post-graduate programme MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments. She is co-author of New Media Design, published in 2007 by Lawrence King and co-investigator on the £1m, two-year Bop research project funded by the Technology Strategy Board. She curates exhibitions and co-convened the international conference user_mode at Tate Modern and the Science Museum in 2003.