PhD thesis
Contact me via my Royal Holloway email address if you'd like to read a copy of my PhD thesis, Engaging with Place through Location-Based Games: Navigation and Narrative in Game Design and Play Experiences.
A brief video summary of my PhD research findings can be viewed below. This video was produced for the Digital Geographies Research Group Work in Progress YouTube series.
Creative projects
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LivingMaps Review, Volume 10 (2021):
Journal articles
LivingMaps Review, Volume 10 (2021):
Conference papers
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2021:
Digital game design as a geographical research method
RGS-IBG Digital Geographies Research Group Virtual Annual Symposium 2020:
Digital game design as a geographical research method
20 Years of Seeing with GPS: Perspectives and Future Directions (symposium hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College London):
Platforming place narratives with location-based games: playful and participatory storytelling using What3Words
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2019:
Environmental Storytelling: A Digital Frontier for Narrative Geography
Wandering Games Conference 2019:
Theorising wandering game experiences: post-phenomenology, navigation and narrative
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Postgraduate Forum Midterm Conference 2019:
Creating Digital Narrative Artworks: An Expanding Geographical Field
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2018:
Reprogramming landscapes of play: navigation and narrative in Geocaching
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2017:
Towards a Virtual Sense of Place: Exploring 'Walking Simulator' Video Games
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2021:
Digital game design as a geographical research method
RGS-IBG Digital Geographies Research Group Virtual Annual Symposium 2020:
Digital game design as a geographical research method
20 Years of Seeing with GPS: Perspectives and Future Directions (symposium hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College London):
Platforming place narratives with location-based games: playful and participatory storytelling using What3Words
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2019:
Environmental Storytelling: A Digital Frontier for Narrative Geography
Wandering Games Conference 2019:
Theorising wandering game experiences: post-phenomenology, navigation and narrative
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Postgraduate Forum Midterm Conference 2019:
Creating Digital Narrative Artworks: An Expanding Geographical Field
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2018:
Reprogramming landscapes of play: navigation and narrative in Geocaching
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2017:
Towards a Virtual Sense of Place: Exploring 'Walking Simulator' Video Games
Conference posters
Mapping Space | Mapping Time | Mapping Texts Conference 2020:
Location-based games as platforms for site-specific storytelling, using What3Words
Mapping Space | Mapping Time | Mapping Texts Conference 2020:
Location-based games as platforms for site-specific storytelling, using What3Words
Masters dissertation research
Exploring Geographies of Video Games: Placing Virtual Worlds
Briefing document for game developers
Exploring Geographies of Video Games: Placing Virtual Worlds
Briefing document for game developers
Undergraduate dissertation research
Articles
Manifesto Club, 20th September 2017:
Canterbury's dog mess debacle: the crime of 'not carrying two bags'
Manifesto Club, 13th April 2017:
Busking and Public Space in the Busybody State
Manifesto Club, 20th September 2017:
Canterbury's dog mess debacle: the crime of 'not carrying two bags'
Manifesto Club, 13th April 2017:
Busking and Public Space in the Busybody State