Virtual heritage, digital humanities, virtual places, research infrastructures, serious games, virtual tourism.

Enterprise Fellow, Architecture, Creative, University of South Australia, Adelaide. 

Honorary Professor at ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research (CDHR), Australian National University (ANU), Canberra.

Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, FABLE, University of Western Australia.

Emeritus Professor, Curtin University. Previously UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, and Professor at Media Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI), in the Humanities Faculty of Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. In 2020 teaching out two units (courses) at Curtin.

My recent books are Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage for Routledge’s Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities Series, and Playing with the Past (Springer, 2011). I also wrote Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture (Routledge, 2019).

Editor of Virtual Heritage: A Guide (Ubiquity Press, 2021), The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places (Routledge, 2018), Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism (ETC Press, 2012) and co-editor of  Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2017).

Rethinking Virtual Places will be published in the Spatial Humanities Series by Indiana University Press, early 2021. An edited open access book on Virtual Heritage will be published by Ubiquity Press, February 2021.

GRANTS

• 2021 Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Platform grant.Time-Layered Cultural Map of Australia 2.0 (https://doi.org/10.47486/PL069) and https://ardc.edu.au/news/culture-mapping-tool-wins-national-award/
• 2021-2022 Australian Cultural Data Engine for Research, Industry and Government. https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LE210100021
• 2020-2023 ARC Linkage Photogrammetric Reconstruction for Underwater Virtual Heritage Experiences https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP180100284
• 2020-2021 ARC LIEF Time-layered cultural map of Australia https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LE190100019
• 2020-2021 ARC LIEF The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia (Phase 1). https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LE200100123

For all Australian Research Council grants Erik Champion is involved with please see https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grants#/20/1//erik%20champion/

TEACHING/SUPERVISING

Supervising 4 PhD students at Curtin University as associate/adjunct supervisor.
Currently teaching undergraduate and postgraduate units at Curtin University.

SPEAKING

Invited virtual public lecture, Digital Humanities, Uppsala University, Sweden, 25 November 2020.

Invited to speak at Living Digital Heritage Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2021. TBC. https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/resilient-societies/centres/cache/news-and-events4/living-digital-heritage-conference-october-2020

Fellowship

Invited Visiting Scientist/Professor, Padua, Italy, 2020

2020-2021 Conferences

Invited to cochair the EuroMed2020 conference www.euromed2020.eu, Springer-Nature LNCS. Co-chairs include: Professor Marinos Ioannides, UNESCO Chair of Digital Heritage, Mrs Eleanor Fink, USA, former Getty Digital Techs Director inventor of Object-ID standard, Professor Lorenzo Cantoni Università della Svizzera italiana, UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites. 

Invited committee member, Australian Museums & Galleries Association (AMaGA) National Conference (Perth).

Invited onto Program Board of Culture & Computing 2021 Conference, Springer (part of HCI International).

Pending/To Be Published

Books and edited books in press or under review

• Champion, E. (2021: in press). Rethinking Virtual Places. Indiana University Press, Spatial Humanities series.
• Champion, E. (Ed). (2021). Virtual Heritage: A Concise Guide. Ubiquity Press.

Journal articles in press

• Rahaman, H., Johnston, M., & Champion, E. (2021: in press). Augmented Reality for Teaching and Learning Language. Digital Creativity.

Journal articles recently published

• Dawson, B., Joseph P., & Champion, E. (2020: in press). Methodology to Evaluate User Experience of a Storyteller Panorama Tour. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals.
  
• Champion, E. (2020: in press). Culturally Significant Presence in Single-Player Computer Games, ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). https://dl.acm.org/journal/jocch/

Conference papers recently presented

Champion, E. (2020: in press). Swords Sandals and Selfies in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, A Tour You’d Kill For. TIPC 3, The Netherlands, 3-6 November 2020. Online. https://interactivepasts.com/the-interactive-pasts-conference-3/.

Champion, E., Kerr, R., McMeekin, D., & Rahaman, H. (2020, 29 October-3 November). Time-Layered Gamic Interaction with a Virtual Museum Template. Paper presented at the EuroMed 2020 Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus (online).