Catherine Flick

Catherine Flick is a Professor of Ethics and Games Technology at Staffordshire University. She graduated with a BSc (1st class honours) with majors in Computer Science and History & Philosophy of Science from Sydney University, Australia, while working in industry as a systems administrator and web programmer, and a PhD in Computer Ethics from Charles Sturt University, Australia, with a thesis on informed consent and ICT. Areas of research have involved responsible research and innovation in health and ageing, online child protection, trusted computing, anonymous technologies and the darknet, cryptocurrencies, and informed consent in ICT, and she has a specific interest in the ethics in and of video games. She is vice-chair of the Association of Computing Machinery’s Committee on Professional Ethics and was a committee member of the ACM’s Code of Ethics update team. She is currently Responsible Innovation Lead in the Intelligent Games and Games Intelligence EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training and working on pr