Caitlin Veal 👾

Another successful Games Lab! This November marks our third year running the lab at Aesthetica Film Festival. Thanks to everyone who came along!👾🩷 #ASFF2025

Wrote up a short piece about the Interactive Games PGR conference that took place a few weeks ago. There really were too many excellent papers to list in detail, but here I share the main idea of my keynote: allowing yourself to experiment and push theory in new directions. bcmcr.org/research/key...

Thank you so much for coming along to speak! I really appreciate it. Your work is so fascinating and I’ll definitely be carrying your advice with me into the final year of my PhD and beyond!! ✨

Thank you so much for coming! It was great to hear how your research has been going 🫶✨

Really looking forward to this year’s event!

🧡 If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day!

🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾

There is roughly a day remaining to sign up to attend this years Interactive Games PGR Conference 2025! 🧡 (programme to follow when I return from DiGRA)

Sign up and register your attendance here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interactiv...

So glad to have pushed through the anxiety to present my findings at the DiGRA 2025 PhD Consortium! I was genuinly terrified but the feedback and discussion was so valuable and the whole conference has been a real highlight of my PhD journey so far! So excited for the rest of the week! ☀️✨🇲🇹

Can’t believe how clear and blue all the water is! Really looking forward to it all :)

Thank you! 😁

Lovely first afternoon in Malta ahead of DiGRA 2025! Really looking forward to the PhD Consortium tomorrow, and so excited to explore Valletta over the next week!! ☀️✨

Thank you to everyone who submitted to present this year! I am so excited to be able to run the event again and looking forward to meeting and catching up with everyone!✨

Last chance for PGRs to submit to this year’s Interactive Games PGR Conference! ⬇️✨

A TV screen showing ARK: Survival Ascended game play. A leg is visible, on top of it sat a leopard gecko

A TV screen showing ARK: Survival Ascended game play. A leg is visible, on top of it sat a leopard gecko

ARK: Survival Ascended is best played in the company of your own mini dinosaur 🦎💚

Games studies PhD and Masters students, please check this out! A free event hosted by investigate.games at York St John University💫🌟excited for this years conference✨

An amazing conference for PGRs in video games! Find the dates and submission details below! 🎮⭐️

Call for Papers! Are you a postgraduate researcher researching video games, board games or any other type of play? We are looking for submissions by PGRs for 10 minute presentations at our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference. Location: York St John University Date: Friday 18th July, 2025 Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May, 2025 Submit your presentation proposals through the attached link. Any questions contact Caitlin at c.veal@yorksj.ac.uk.

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨

We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference!

📍 York St John University
📆 Friday 18th July

Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10

It’s the last weekend of our Games Lab at the Yorkshire Games Festival at the National Science + Media Museum! This weekend we have a whole host of developers in attendance to showcase and talk you through their games - so come and take a look! 👾🧡

This week we are at the Yorkshire Games Festival showcasing 23 games by Yorkshire based games developers at our Games Lab!The Lab is based at the National Science + Media Museum in Bradford from 15-23rd February, so do come down and take a look!👾

Congrats! Ah, it’s going to be a great few days! :)

Ah awesome, congrats!! Looking forward to meeting all the other games studies PhDs!

Ah nice one, congratulations!! From your bio it looks like we have similar research interests so I look forward to hearing about your project!

Thank you!! Yes shall see you!

Thank you! Will be great to meet you too! :)

Aw thank you!!🫶🫶

So excited to have had my submission accepted for the PhD Consortium as part of this year’s DiGRA Conference in Malta!🇲🇹 My first external and international conference, really looking forward to it ✨

Couldn’t come all the way to Edinburgh without paying a lil visit to Greyfriars Bobby, and Greyfriars Kirkyard 🐶⛪️💀

@investigatedot.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! Follow to keep up to date with the going’s on in the research group, events, publications and research opportunities. Exciting things coming very soon!!🧡

I am Caitlin, a PhD researcher in the Social Sciences at York St John University, conducting research into the ways that online social video games are experienced and understood by those that play them. Participant criteria: • Do you play online open world video games, online sandbox games or MMORPGs? • Are you aged 18 or over? • Are you interested in sharing and discussing your video game experiences? If so, sign up with the link in the post or email me directly at c.veal@yorksj.ac.uk.

Hello to my new followers on here! I am looking for a few more participants to take part in my PhD study. In this instance I am particularly interested in speaking to participants who identify as female.

See the poster below & sign up here:
forms.office.com/e/4enXsLFjpk

Any reposts appreciated 👾💜