Erik Chempion Champion

Emeritus Professor Champion is internationally renowned and respected in the field of the use of computer gaming in learning, research, and broader interest contexts of archaeology, history, and cultural heritage. Trained originally in architecture and philosophy, his PhD dissertation in 2006 from the University of Melbourne was on Evaluating Cultural Learning in Virtual Environments, using the archaeological and cultural heritage site of Palenque, Mexico, as a test case. He is currently an Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia after becoming Curtin University's first UNESCO Chair. Prior to joining Curtin University, he was Project leader of the new Digital Humanities Lab Denmark, a consortium of four Danish universities, where he was hosted at Aarhus University. Here he worked with EU research infrastructures and projects, co-leading Research and Public Engagement for DARIAH.eu. From 2008 to 2011 he was Director of Postgraduate Studies and Research and Associate Professor in the School of Design, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, New Zealand. He was the first UNESCO chair at Curtin University and Professor of Cultural Visualization at the School of Media Culture and Creative Arts, Australia. He is interested in collaboration and supervision in the areas of virtual heritage, serious games, and architectural visualisation, as well as wider areas of interaction design. He is currently an Emeritus Professor, Curtin University; and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.