Dr Oliver Bates
Research FellowResearch Overview
I am a design researcher, game designer, coder, and data scientist. I find passion for tech adjacent research entangled in sustainability, rethinking the world of work, communities, systemic design, alternative futures, speculation, fun, talking to people, and creativity.
My research practice centres:
1) games design and creative methods for exploring system complexity
2) designing carbon-aware, sustainable, and just futures with communities
3) alternative and creative approaches for evaluating sustainability, systems and services
4) facilitating different conversations
Topics of interest: energy demand reduction; sustainable last mile logistics; games; carbon accounting; fair and just gig economy work; alternative futures; co-operatives
Issues of precarity and interdisciplinarity for Early Career Researchers in Justice-oriented technology spaces
12/07/2021 → 22/10/2021
Research
“What if you were controlled by all these apps?” - challenging indifference toward essential gig economy courier work.
01/05/2021 → 30/11/2022
Research
Switch-Gig - Exploring digital opportunities to switch the gig-economy to fair and just work
01/09/2019 → 31/07/2020
Research
‘I want it, and I want it now’ – demonstrating the transport and environmental impacts of last-mile parcel delivery.
01/04/2019 → 09/09/2021
Other
Speaker at Energy Systems Catapult Seminar
Invited talk
Digital Worker Inquiry
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Lancaster University Research Staff Association (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Lancaster University Research Staff Association (External organisation)
Membership of committee
"Demand around the clock: time use and data demand of mobile devices in everyday life" CHI 2017 presentation
Oral presentation
- DSI - Environment
- Energy Lancaster
- Network and Systems
- Pentland Centre
- Security Lancaster
- Security Lancaster (Behavioural Science)
- Security Lancaster (Societal Threats)
- Security Lancaster (Systems Security)