Welcome to Super Being labs

powers:branding . communications . Design . digital strategy . Experience Design . film . humour . Product Development . product innovation . Project Management . Research . Young People

With 18 years of experience using design, creativity, and technology to help tackle complex social problems, he founded Super Being Labs to design a world that truly enables the best of human collective potential. Each project sits across 1 or all 3 of these systems – systems for young people, systems for knowledge, and systems for the arts. 

He is also the co-founder of Being ManKind, a project that uses storytelling to inspire boys to shun damaging gender stereotypes and grow into kind, compassionate and empathetic humans – everything that will render terms like ‘Man Up’ redundant. Outside of work, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre at the University of Oxford, the non-exec Chair at Sporting Memories Network – a social enterprise using sporting reminiscence to fight dementia and isolation for the elderly,  Chair for STCA – a community charity in London, and also serves on a few other boards too, and trustee at Summertown Arts, amongst other things. 

Outside of all that he’s a stand-up comic and writer. He’s also just started up his comedy nights again – this time in Oxford.

powers:Product Development . product innovation . systems administration . Systems Architecture and Design . Web Development

Alex and coding go together like gin and tonic. He has years of experience in programming, with a degree in computer science as well as a Masters in bioinformatics, where he specialised in big data and machine learning. He’s a full stack developer with experience in systems admin, specifically building scalable and secure web application architectures on the AWS platform. He also has deep experience in automated server provisioning and systems architecture design.

With his skills in PHP, Ruby on Rails and Java, he has built some cool digital products over the years.

Ultimately he believes in simplicity for the user, even if it means added complexity for the developer, and is a big fan of behaviour driven development, as testing always pays you back in spades down the road. On the front end, he believes in mobile first and considers a website to be complete only when there is nothing left to take away.

A very Alex fact – he also started a games website, which generated over £1m in revenue for partners like Amazon, Tesco, and Littlewoods. This process taught him how to run a business and also helped develop his SEO and PPC marketing skills.

When he’s not tapping out code, he enjoys coffee, craft beer, cooking, and most of all cycling – show him a hill and he’ll always want to suffer his way to the top. He’s also scuba dived all around the world and has amazingly curly hair.

powers:Capoeira . Drawing . Photography . Project Management . Research

Dr Priya Dabasia is in charge of our research methodology and protocols, especially for impact and health projects. She is also a producer and photographer for many of our impact projects.

Priya is actually a highly experienced optometrist, specialising in the field of glaucoma detection, and has been practising since 2004. Priya completed her pre-registration training at City University for which she was awarded the prestigious Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers’ Prize, and the George Wheatcroft Prize. In September 2005, Priya was appointed visiting tutor at City University, teaching on internal university lecture programmes at both postgraduate (MSc) and undergraduate level. Alongside her main role, Priya continued to develop her clinical experience with locum clinics, both at the university and in independent community practice. Priya writes CET accredited articles for journals The Optician and Optometry in Practice. In March 2013, Priya was awarded the Geoffrey Hall, Lightmongers Prize for services to City University. Priya also has a PhD for a project titled ‘A study of the role of advanced technologies in glaucoma case-finding’ and has recently finished a Postdoc and is now working with us to help us with our mission.

Outside her work as a researcher, optometrist and wildlife photographer, Priya enjoys playing Capoeira twice weekly and travelling around the world.

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Lucy is driven by the transformative power of stories. She started her career as a newspaper journalist and went on to be a factual programmes producer for BBC TV and BBC World Service Radio. She moved on into drama, where she worked for Paines Plough theatre. In 1995, she returned to the BBC (Drama) where she co-founded BBC Writers Room, which is now the public face of the BBC to the UK writing community – online and in the real world. She went on to be writer-in-residence at HMP Rochester (Young Offenders) and to work with writers and dramatists in areas of conflict, including : Afghanistan, South Sudan, Chechnya, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. In 2011, she founded and led Commonwealth Writers (where she was a client of ours!). Responsive and proactive, it tackles the challenges faced by writers in the 53 countries of the Commonwealth. Since 2017 she has worked for a variety of national and international organisations, including : INTENT New Theatre, the British Council, BBC Media Action, Commonwealth Foundation and Okapi Consulting, to design, develop and deliver creative and cultural initiatives. She is on the board of: Papertrail Theatre, Vital Xposure Theatre and Oval House Theatre in the UK. Also, a board member of the Children’s Radio Foundation in South Africa and she is a director of the NGC BOCAS Lit Fest in Trinidad.

She is now with us, helping us grow Super Being Arts into a force that uses the arts for social good.

powers:Directing . film . humour . Project Management . Screenwriting

Collaborating with Super Being Labs on film and storytelling projects with his production company Turtle Canyon, Stu is the man you need to speak to get some quality storytelling via film, animation or stage.

Stuart is a director, comic and writer, creating great new films and comedy with exciting new talent and established stars. He has worked with Robert Lindsay, Nick Helm, Julia Davis, Jessie Cave, Diana Weston, Jake Lloyd, James Acaster and Elizabeth Tan. He has spearheaded the online comedy channel for Turtle Canyon Media and racked up 700,000 hits for the regular stream of viral hits, sketches, web series and short films. The majority of the content is directed by Stuart and has been featured worldwide in publications such as The Huffington Post, The Poke, The Daily Mirror, Upworthy, The Daily Star and the British Comedy Guide. He is developing a range of TV shows with comedians and produced video content for Nick Helm’s upcoming BBC3 series.

Not only is Stu blooming funny, he also has a very weird thing for Haribo and Panini football stickers.

powers:communications . Design . digital strategy . Product Design . Product Development . product innovation . Product Management

When Stefan was a kid, he started making robots out of toothpicks and fishing cork. As he grew up he still wanted to create, so he taught himself the skills needed for his creations – starting off with graphic design, 3D modelling and basic animation, and then moving onto learning how to sew and even basic carpentry.

From here began his love of solving things creatively. He went on to study Marketing in Birmingham, and after working on a few start-ups, he learnt to stitch his creative skills with his product development skills. Welcome to the grown-up kid turned product manager – Stefan Moghina.

12 years into his SBL career, he’s worked on pretty much every big project we’ve ever done.

powers:Design . Product Development . Web Development

Paul is a young technologist with an ambition to improve the lives of people. Being around computers since a young age has sparked his interest for all things related to hardware and operating systems, on top of that, he is a programmer that did his first freelance gigs while still in high school. 10 years in, he’s one of the calmest influences on SBL and our clients.

Being very unconventional in regards to his education since a very young age, preferring to listen to history audio books than actually paying attention to his history teacher, he didn’t pursue a computer science degree but instead took the path of the autodidact.

When he isn’t glued to a computer screen, Paul spends his time listening to podcasts, his favourite being Hardcore History, trying to learn Swedish, and training his German Shepherds.

powers:animation . Design . Drawing . Graphic Design . Product Design . product innovation . storytelling . Web Design

Sigrid’s interest in visual arts began at a young age, so she started taking drawing lessons when she was 7 years old. After attending an Arts high school, feeling the need to explore the theoretical side, she went to study Art History. She then decided to focus on her practical skills and there began her journey with visual design, animation, 3D modeling, and product design. Now she’s at Super Being, using those skills to accelerate social good 🙂

In her free time, she enjoys traveling, drinking ridiculous amounts of coffee and collecting cats (yes, she loves cats).