Erik Champion

Erik Champion is an Honorary Research Professor at the Research School of Humanities & the Arts, Australian National University (ANU), and holds roles such as Honorary Professor at ANU’s Centre for Digital Humanities Research (CDHR), Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, and Emeritus Professor at Curtin University. He previously served as UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation at Curtin University. His research focuses on virtual heritage, digital humanities, and serious games.

Education: PhD, MPhil (hons), MArch, BArch, Grad. Cert. Digital Learning Futures.

Research interests include virtual heritage, digital humanities, virtual places, and cultural heritage infrastructures. His work spans books like Critical Gaming and Playing with the Past, and edited volumes such as The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places.

He has collaborated on projects involving time-layered cultural maps and extended reality (XR) in digital humanities. His publications explore topics like virtual tourism, game-based learning, and interdisciplinary applications of technology in cultural contexts.