Jude Ricketts
CHASE-funded PhD Researcher at University of Sussex
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJude Ricketts is a CHASE-funded PhD researcher, award-winning artist, and XR founder with eight years’ experience designing immersive, data-driven storytelling and placemaking projects. As Creative Director of AR Hive and senior lecturer in Games Art & Design, Jude blends hands-on XR development (React.js, Firebase, AR/VR) with community-led participatory research to create ethically grounded, co-creative experiences. Their work bridges academia, public culture, and industry, delivering recognised projects that foreground underrepresented voices and measurable social impact. Currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Sussex, Jude specialises in geo-located interactive narratives and spatial computing, translating experimental research into public-facing artefacts and workshops. Notably, they pair practical product delivery with critical theory—turning playful technologies into tools for civic engagement and community storytelling.
8 years of coding experience
Creative and Critical Practice PhD, Geo located / Interactive data-driven Storytelling / Community-Based Participatory Research, Creative and Critical Practice PhD, Geo located / Interactive data-driven Storytelling / Community-Based Participatory Research at University of SussexMaster of Arts degree, Digital Media Arts, Master of Arts degree, Digital Media Arts at University of BrightonUniversity College London
Github Skills (26)
threejs9
aframe9
css-grid8
wireframe8
webrtc8
tensorflowjs7
webar7
html7
face-tracking6
tuio6
webvr6
css6
p5js5
webxr5
augmented-reality5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LovesPictures/AR_js
Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
Augmented Reality examples for the web.
Contributions:465 pushes in 1 year 10 months
augmented-reality
LovesPictures/group-project-dogs
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
This repository contains the intial code for a React app about dogs.
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 1 month
react
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