Dr Patrick Stacey
BSc (Hons), MRes, PhD
Lecturer
Department
Management Science
Professional Role
Stakeholder for VLE development
External Roles
Associate Editor for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Invited to be a Track Chair at ICIS 2011
Member of the AIM Scholars Pool.
Associate Fellow of Warwick Business School.
Current Teaching
Design and Innovation in IS/IT (IT019, HIGH403)
E-Business (EBIN501, IT011, MSCI375)
Special Topics for PhD (HIGH401)
Highwire Project Supervisiion (HIGH400)
ITMOC Project Supervision (IT013, IT06)
PhD Student: John Hardy
Research Interests
Social dynamics of design and innovation processes; multi-disciplinary collaboration, computer game design, sensemaking, structuration theory, emotion, improvisation, distributed work.
Current Research
(a) Gamification
(b) Multidisciplinary COllaboration in Computer Game Studios.
(b) Well-being in Games Studios.
(c) Service Systems Design - particularly cancer care related
Profile
Dr Patrick Stacey is a Lecturer of Information Systems at Lancaster University Management School. He joins from Imperial College Business School where he was a Research Associate on the Design London project. He obtained his PhD in Information Systems Design from the University of Bath in January 2008 and in the same month joined Imperial College's Innovation and Entrepreneurship group. His post-doctoral research project was entitled "Sensemaking and the Co-design of Service Systems" funded by Design London ( a collaboration between Imperial College and Royal College of Art). This culminated in a popular seminar entitled "Designing Happiness in the Built Environment" in summer 2010.
One of his main research interests is in the socio-technical dimensions of computer game development. Therein there are 4 main themes he addresses: multidisciplinary collaboration, process and modes of practice, emotion, and distributed work. He has forged links with game companies such as Crystal Dynamics (e.g. Tomb Raider) and Lionhead Studios (e.g. Fable). Another of his research interests is in the socio-material-emotional aspects of architecture. To this end he founded the Positive Architecture Movement (PAM) in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In April 2007, before submitting his PhD, he was a Research Associate at Warwick Business School (WBS), leading a pump-priming research project that sought to understand the conceptualisation and design of violent computer games. He is also a consultant to large software companies on improving multi-disciplinary collaboration in teams.
Before beginning his doctoral studies in 2003 at the School of Management at the University of Bath, Dr Stacey worked for quasi-government organisations in Singapore developing and managing projects on intranets, ecommerce and publishing systems. He received his first degree in Business .Information Systems from the University of East Anglia in 1991, where he also worked as a Research Associate investigating means of making email more user-friendly, and obtained a Masters by Research in Information Systems.
Publications
- Stacey P, Bascavusoglu-Moreau E and Tether B, 2011, 'Empathic service systems: 'designing' emotion in a cancer care service system', Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Nominated for Best Paper
View details - Stacey P and Nandhakumar J, 2010, 'Emotional journeys in game design teams', in Business, Technological and Social Dimensions of Computer Games: Multidisciplinary Developments, IGI Global
View details - Stacey P, 2010, 'Second health: a case study', The Value of Games in Learning: Showing the Benefits of Serious Games (Warwick Business School) - 2010
View details - Stacey P, 2010, 'Improvisation as control: a field study of computer game design', DRUID Summer Conference (Imperial College, London) - 2010
View details - Stacey P, 2010, 'Designing happiness in the built environment', Design London Summer Seminar (Imperial College, London) - 2010
View details - Stacey P, 2010, 'Emotional prototyping for service system design', Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada)- 2010
View details - Pinto J and Stacey P, 2010, 'What's in a name? just the essence of one's professional identity', Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, vol 3, no. 3
View details - Stacey P, Nandhakumar J and Brown A D, 2009, 'The consequences of distributed 'green' game design: a sensemaking perspective', Academy of Management Conference (Chicago) - 2009
View details - Stacey P, 2009, 'The inner-life of design: responding to wellbeing challenges in game design', British Academy of Management (Brighton) - 2009
View details - Stacey P, 2009, 'The constraint effect: a socio-political perspective of the design process', I*PROMS2009 Conference - 2009
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