Tyler Holderness is a doctoral student whose research focuses on human engagement, how it is measured and how emerging technologies can be leveraged to enhance it. This builds upon his prior research, which focused on the drivers and inhibitors of engagement within higher education. He is a School of Technology scholar. 

Tyler holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from the Open University and a Master of Philosophy in Industrial Systems, Manufacturing and Management from the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a Cambridge Trust Scholarship.

He brings a strong foundation of industry experience, having worked as a senior consultant at Capgemini, within autonomous systems and reliability-centred maintenance at Boeing, and within aluminium fabrication.