Dr Terry Lam is a scholar-practitioner engaging in film narrative, screen production design, and digital media technology for over 25 years. Since 2007, Dr Lam has participated in the game industry and led industry research projects in immersive media and interaction for creative practice research projects during his time in the meaningful game research centre PlayLab at the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic. 

In 2014, he moved to Seoul and focused on immersive design for media content. Before completing his PhD at the School of Design and Social Context, RMIT University Melbourne, he supervised over 10 Hong Kong action movies in VFX production. Dr Lam has been involved in several prominent Hong Kong and international film productions, including Legend of Zu, Old Master Q, The Wesley’s Mysterious File, Heroes, The Park, The Twins Effect, Infernal Affairs, Fearless, Stool Pigeon, Viral Factor, and more. In recent years, he focused on scriptwriting and finished his fifth screenplay. His most recent screenwriting work, A Guilty Conscience, reached the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong's history.

Dr Lam is building his research path on creative practice. In his earlier research, Dr Lam investigated the interdisciplinary practice between game technology and media development for industrial innovation, then extended his research to service design and technology. Since completing his PhD in 2020, Dr Lam has continued his practice-based research to focus on action-narrative and innovative development of action cinema with immersive technology.

Dr Lam is the former vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Designers Association and external examiner of HKDI, THEi, and HKAPA for film schools. He also participates in the curriculum development of creative media programmes in several higher education institutes. He is now the Acting Dean and Senior Lecturer of Digital Screen Design at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, School of Film and TV.