Thesis title:
Engagement, Learning and Creative Interpretation: The Videogame in the Museum Sector
Working Title: Playing With Interpretation: The Videogame in the Museum and Heritage Sector
My thesis will critically examine the prospective role of videogames in the museum and heritage sector, focussing specifically on their potential as tools for interpretation. It will explore how videogames and museum interpretation interact with ideas of narrative/storytelling, emotion/affect, and persuasive/procedural rhetoric in order to study how videogame affordances might be able to resolve issues in modern museum interpretive techniques.
Research Area
- Cultural and Museum Studies
- Heritage Management
Publications
Conferences
- Poster Presentation - NTU Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference 2 Dec 2019
- Poster Presentation - EmDoc 2019 11 Sep 2019 (poster awarded highly commended in the best poster category)
- Poster Presentation - 2nd Global Heritage Conference 4 Jul 2019
Public Engagement & Impact
Talks:
- Videogames: An Interpretative Tool for Museums
NTU Work in Progress Seminar Series 22/10/2020
- 'Nour is Busy': Procedural and Persuasive Rhetoric in Museum Interpretation
NTU Work in Progress Seminar Series 01/07/2020
- Assassins Creed Origins: Discovery Tour
DCRN Retreat 'Show and Tell' Session 10/07/19
- Playing with Interpretation: The Videogame in the Museum and Heritage Sector
NTU History and Heritage Research Seminar 20/03/19
Other Engagement:
- Member of the organising team for the online M4C Research Festival 2020
- Fieldwork with Nottingham Castle game projects (postponed due to COVID-19)
Conferences/Workshops Attended:
- Midlands Network of Popular Culture Inaugural Forum (13/08/2020)
- M4C Research Festival 2020 (13-14/07/2020)
- The Present and Future of Games and History (28/02/2020)
- NTU History Postgraduate Conference (13/11/19)
- DCRN Retreat 2019 (09-12/07/19)
- Musems Association: Museum Tech 2019 (27/06/19)
- M4C Research Festival 2019 (23/05/19)
- NTU Doctoral Students' Research Festival (29/03/19)
- Engaging with Nottingham Castle Future: Virtual Platforms & Public Engagement with Nottingham Castle User Groups Workshop (13/02/19)
CDF Involvement:
- Connecting the Pipeline (co-applicant) - successful
- Digital Culture 2020 Conference (co-applicant) - successful
- DCRN Academic Retreat (co-applicant) - successful
Other Research Interests
- Playful/informal learning
- Creative practice as research
- Videogames
- Digital cultures
Memberships
Professional Training and Development
- M4C Student Advisory Forum representative for NTU (2019/2020)
- Lifting the Lid on the Creative and Cultural Industries (16/10/19)
- Teacher Training at NTU (27/11/19 - 17/12/19)
- Evaluation Training Day with Nottingham Castle for upcoming prototype testing (07/02/20)
The Sum of its Parts
Misplaced - MA Twine Game
My MA research project game, based on Newstead Abbey.
Try it here!
