Chris Speed
Founding Director
Professor Chris Speed is Chair of Design Informatics at University of Edinburgh where his research focuses upon the Network Society, Design for the Digital Economy, and The Internet of Things. Chris has been involved in 25 research grants (leading on 9) since 2009 across ESPRC, ESRC and AHRC, has published over 120 papers and presented widely on the role of design in the Digital Economy.
He now leads the Creative Informatics programme, the EPSRC OxChain Project (£1.3m), ESRC After Money Project (£250k) and is Co-I to the EPSRC PACTMAN Project (£1.3m) and part of the £5m PETRAS IoT UK Hub. Chris is also a member of the EPSRC Digital Economy PAB.
