Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Ofcom Call for Evidence on age assurance for children’s access to online content and app stores
Published 2026This submission focuses on the role of app stores in implementing and enforcing age-related regulations, with particular attention to gambling-like content and simulated gambling, classified as “non-designated content” for ...Open AccessOther -
Misleading and Deceptive Monetisation in Roblox: Evidence of False Pricing, Manipulative Design, and Consumer Harm in a Children’s Digital Platform
Published 2026-03-25Roblox is one of the world’s largest digital platforms for children, generating most of its revenue through microtransactions purchased with the virtual currency Robux. This report examines how monetisation is designed and ...Open AccessReport, Research -
The Australian School Travel Survey 2025
Published 2026This report presents the results of the Australian School Travel Survey 2025, a national survey of 4968 families containing data on school and extra-curricular travel for 7880 children in Australia. The report first ...Open AccessReport, Research -
The Future End of Design Work: A Critical Overview of Managerialism, Generative AI, and the Nature of Knowledge Work, and Why Craft Remains Relevant
Published 2024This article examines the transformation of design work under the influence of managerialism and the rise of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). Drawing on John Maynard Keynes's projections of technological ...Open AccessArticle -
Neodesign: The Loss of Craft, Imagination and a Playful Attitude
Published 2025-11-21Since around the turn of the millennium, a “New Design” ethos gradually emerged. It is a reformulation of design entrenched enough to warrant a term of its own: Neodesign. Repackaged as a procedural, risk-averse, sandboxed ...Open AccessConference paper