Portfolio

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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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



Conference posters

Mapping Space | Mapping Time | Mapping Texts Conference 2020:
Location-based games as platforms for site-specific storytelling, using What3Words



Workshops

RGS-IBG Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Symposium 2019:
Walking Simulators






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