Summary
Charlie Hargood is an Associate Professor and academic computer scientist based in Bournemouth with a decade of experience researching narrative systems, hypertext, mixed reality, and game design. He combines rigorous PhD-level research from the University of Southampton with hands-on technical leadership, having led interdisciplinary projects like the Leverhulme-funded StoryPlaces to build location-aware narrative frameworks and authoring tools. Charlie has a track record of translating literary and humanistic questions into software architectures, running co-design workshops between computer science and English scholars and delivering production-ready mobile and web applications. His work spans academic publication, project management, and software engineering—creating dynamic Android frameworks and large Java web systems for behavioural research. Known for bridging creative practice and technical depth, he focuses on how spatial and interactive technologies reshape storytelling rather than just the underlying code.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of Southampton