DR. TERRY LAM, Ph. D.

Dr. Lam Wai Man Terry BFA(HKAPA) MDes(HKPolyU) Ph.D. (RMIT) has been teaching at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and other higher education institutes for 7 years. He has 20 years of experience in film and digital entertainment creative practice and was awarded a number of international media awards, including, Brand New Awards, Promax, and Bloomberg Creative Media Award.

Since 2007, Dr. Lam participated in the game industry and leads the industry research projects in immersive media and interaction for creative practice research projects during his time in the meaningful game research centre PlayLab at the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

In 2014, he moved to Seoul and focus on immersive design for games and museums. Prior to completing his Ph.D. at RMIT University at the School of Design and Social Context, he supervised more than ten Hong Kong action movies in VFX production and finished his fourth movie screenplay.

Dr. Lam is building his research path on creative practice that focuses on action narrative and innovative development of action cinema and immersive media. He is the vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Designers Association and external examiner of HKDI and HKAPA for film schools, he also participates in the curriculum development of the creative media programmes.