Professor of Design at OCAD University (Toronto)

Martha Ladly is a Professor of Design at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada, where she was the recent Director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program, and Chair of the Research Ethics Board.

Martha specializes in interactive media and technology; she is a senior researcher with the Mobile Experience Lab and an investigator with GRAND (Graphics, Animation, New Media and Design) a Canadian National Centre of Excellence. She is an author and the co-editor of Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms. In the 1990s Martha was the Head of Design with Peter Gabriel’s Real World Group in the U.K. And in the 1980s Martha had a prominent international career as a performer and recording artist. Martha is currently on sabbatical completing her PhD on Eros, Women and Technology, in Communication and Culture at York University.