David Squire is Director of DESQ, a UK based learning games and e-learning developer. David founded DESQ in 1998 after spending 10 years working under various guises in community arts, media and further education. He oversees a team of producers creating award winning e-learning materials and game-based learning applications for clients such as LSIS, Institute for Physics, British Council, Oxford University Press, Channel 4 and the BBC. DESQ is a member of Game Republic, a UK regional games developer association and a industry member of FutureLab. David was until Summer 2009 an honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, looking at theories of game design and game-based learning to inform practice. He is a member of advisory groups for BBC and PACT and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.