Linda Candy is a writer and researcher who lives and works in Australia and England. She is presently adjunct Professor in the School of Software, the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. Her subject is creativity with a focus on practice-based research and methodologies for evaluating interactive digital systems. She is co-founder of the ACM SIGCHI Creativity and Cognition conference series and an editorial board member of the Journal of Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education and the International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation.