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Summary

I am a Senior Lecturer teaching in the Game Design and Games Technology domains, with a focus on games programming, user experience design, and game design principles.

As a researcher, I am particularly interested in Game Design as a process and as a practice. My practice-based research involves creating games, many of which have educational or wellbeing benefits, such as my ARG Nomad and poly-pervasive game What We Take With Us.

I am particularly interested in pervasive, analogue, and other real-world games and continue to explore how they can facilitate personal, transformative player experiences.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

Ph.D., Defining, Refining, and Evaluating Values in the Design, Development, and Play of Pervasive Games, University of Portsmouth

1 Sept 201922 Mar 2024

Award Date: 22 Mar 2024

MSc, Using an alternate reality game to teach information literacy, University of Pretoria

1 Jan 201415 Jul 2016

Award Date: 15 Jul 2016

BSc (Hons), BIS (Hons) Multimedia (distinction), University of Pretoria

1 Jan 201331 Dec 2013

Award Date: 31 Dec 2013

BSc, BIS Multimedia (distinction), University of Pretoria

1 Jan 201031 Dec 2012

Award Date: 31 Dec 2012

External positions

External Examiner, Staffordshire University

1 Aug 20211 Jul 2025

Senior Lecturer, The Independent Institute of Education

1 Apr 20191 Sept 2020

Lecturer, The Independent Institute of Education

1 Jan 201731 Mar 2019

External Examiner, University of Pretoria

1 Jan 20171 Jan 2025

Junior Research Officer, University of Pretoria

1 Jan 201431 Dec 2016

Assistant Lecturer, University of Pretoria

1 Jan 201331 Dec 2013

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