Dr Jake Habgood

Dr Jacob Habgood is Director of Education Partnerships for the Sumo Digital Group and Education Advisor to The Independent Game Developer’s Association. Jake joined Sheffield-based game developer, Gremlin Graphics in the 90’s as a Computer Science graduate and stayed with them until their closure in 2003. He went on to take up a PhD scholarship in Learning Sciences at The University of Nottingham and became a Lecturer and then Reader at Sheffield Hallam University.  Jake’s research interests are in game-based learning and novice programming environments.  He was Principal Investigator on the H2020 REVEAL project which was shortlisted for a Times Higher Education awards for its collaboration with Sony Computer Entertainment.

He is a Visiting Professor in the School of Computer Science.