Hello everyone!
As your new board, we would like to thank all previous board members for their work and effort to develop British DiGRA as a community and a chapter. We are honoured and delighted to represent the chapter and hope you will join us in building this community even further.
Over the next two years the board will work with members to achieve the following:
- Develop further as a strong community of scholars, game designers and developers, as well as wider communities of games professionals.
- We aim to make British DiGRA a vibrant and diverse network more visible to its members, and develop ways to support all our members to have better access and contacts within British DiGRA and beyond. We are thus planning to identify key areas of interest and research through consultations with our members. If you currently have suggestions or recommendations for the board, please do not hesitate to contact us.
- Develop more content and increase our engagement with different game-related communities. We are planning to develop content around introducing some of the great work game scholars, developers, and other professionals are doing around diversity, ecology, LGBTQ+ and other challenges and opportunities our industry and research have in hand.
- Bring together the diverse communities and groups working in UK games research – from academia to industry, from AI to music, from storytelling to data analytics – as a cohesive games research network that shares its values and strengths, and works together on the challenges facing games research in the UK.
- Keep Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at the centre of our activities and considerations.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch to keep up to date with our upcoming activities on :
Chair – Dr Tom Brock
Co-chair – Dr Charlie Hargood
Co-chair – Dr Andra Ivănescu
Communication and Content Officer – Dr Hadi Mehrpouya