Hello! I’m a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London studying how the interaction of personality, contextual, and game design factors can affect player experience and the longer-term psychosocial outcomes of game play.
More specifically, I’m interested in how satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs needs might help explain both the positive and negative relationships people can have with video games. My work seeks to support clinicians in understanding dysregulated gaming and its status as a diagnostic category, to provide parents and gamers with strategies that help them to regulate their gaming in a healthy way, and to inform game design that promotes harmonious engagement and the well-being of players.
I am supervised by Prof Sebastian Deterding, Dr David Zendle, and Dr Laurissa Tokarchuk.
I’m always on the lookout for opportunities to collaborate on interesting projects, so if any of your interests align with mine, please get in touch! I’d be delighted to speak with you.
PhD, CDT in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence, 2019-present
Queen Mary University of London
MPhil, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 2018
University of Cambridge
BS, Linguistics and Environmental Studies, 2016
Tulane University
Process | Analyze | Visualize
Ideate | Build | Test | Evaluate
Beginner-Intermediate
Self-determination theory
Thematic analysis and grounded theory
I’ve only been doing this for a little while, so this is all there is so far! Check back soon for more :)