Dr Mark Featherstone PhD, FHEA
Associate Head of Student Success
Summary
For 16 years Mark worked as a video game developer before joining Hallam University to help develop their games provision. He's worked on PC, PlayStation and Xbox consoles for companies such as Gremlin, Rage, NCSoft, Infogrammes and Moonpod. He is also a qualified secondary school teacher and has special responsibility for student experience within the computing department. He runs ‘Steel Minions’, which is the department’s in-house commercial videogame development studio where students work on commercial and research-based game development projects.
Teaching
School of Computing and Digital Technologies
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
Relevant Projects
Software Engineering, Graphics and Multimedia
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Games based learning software
Publications
Key Publications
Featherstone, M., & Habgood, J. (2018). . International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
Conference papers
Featherstone, M. (2019). . In irish conference on game-based learning, Cork, Ireland, 27 June 2019 - 28 June 2019.
Featherstone, M. (2018). . In Geril, P., & King, D. (Eds.) GAME-ON 2018, Abertay University, Dundee, 18 September 2018 - 20 September 2018 (pp. 138-143). Belgium: Eurosis-Eti:
Featherstone, M. (2017). . Proceedings of the European Conference on Games Based Learning.
Featherstone, M. (2016). . In 10th European Conference on Games Based Learning, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland, 6 October 2016 - 7 October 2016.
Theses / Dissertations
Featherstone, M. (2022). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Roast, C.