DiGRA Australia (DiGRAA) was founded in late 2013 as a local chapter of DiGRA. The board is comprised of a 4 person executive (President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer) and, currently, 7 board members.
2021 – 2022 Executive Members
| President – Brendan Keogh | |
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Brendan Keogh is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology. He researches videogame development skill transferability across informal, formal, and embedded sectors. His previous research has focused on the phenomenological and textual aspects of videogame play and culture. He is the author of A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames (MIT Press, 2018) and Killing is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops The Line (Stolen Projects, 2012). |
| Vice President – April Tyack | |
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April Tyack is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University, studying videogames and adjacent topics. Her recent work concerns meta-science, the use of psychological theory to explain aspects of player experience, and ordinary experiences of play. She has previously written on social play online, experiences of social relatedness in single-player videogames, and games for learning. She is currently a columnist at Metro Magazine, focusing on current events in Australian game-making scenes, and previously wrote for Haywire Magazine. |
| Treasurer – Jane Mavoa | |
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Jane Mavoa is a PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne. Her research is about children’s play in digital spaces, particularly in and around the game Minecraft. She is interested in connections and consistencies between children’s non-digital play and the ways that play happens in digital spaces. Her research also addresses popular discourse surrounding children’s use of screen based media. |
| Secretary – Benjamin Nicoll | |
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Benjamin Nicoll is a Lecturer in the School of Communication and a Chief Investigator at the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses on the history and critical theory of videogames. His most recent books are Minor Platforms in Videogame History (2019) and The Unity Game Engine and the Circuits of Cultural Software (2019, co-authored with Brendan Keogh). |
2021 – 2022 Board Members
| Seat 1 – Ben Egliston | |
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Ben Egliston is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology. He is working on several projects broadly concerned with the practices and politics of digital technology and data (particularly, videogames, AR, VR). |
| Seat 2 – Erin Maclean | |
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Erin Maclean is a late-stage PhD candidate at Griffith University. With a background in journalism, she is interested in intersections between popular culture, journalism and social issues. Her thesis focuses on the tensions that arise in news as popular shooters evolve in the way they represent gender. Erin is also the Senior Vice Editor of Press Start, an international games studies journal for students and early career researchers. |
| Seat 3 – Fraser Allison | |
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Fraser Allison is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. His PhD is on voice interaction in digital games. Much of his research looks at “negative” experiences in games such as embarrassment, dissonance, fear, guilt, distrust and character death. In 2020, he joined the DeathTech Research Team to study the future of cemeteries and the emerging role of digital technologies in mourning. |
| Seat 4 – Premeet Sidhu | |
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Premeet Sidhu is a PhD student at The University of Sydney. Her PhD focuses on understanding the modern resurgence and appeal of Dungeons & Dragons. Her current research interests include investigating how meaningful player experiences in both digital and non-digital games can be applied and considered in wider areas of game studies, education, and media. |
| Seat 5 – Malcolm Ryan | |
| Malcolm Ryan is Director of the Game Design Development program at Macquarie University. His research examines the mechanisms for ethical decision-making in games such as Papers Please, The Walking Dead and Day Z. He is also interested in the relationship between gameplay and narrative. He also designs both tabletop and mobile games under the banner of WordsOnPlay. | |
| Seat 6 – Gawain Lax | |
| Seat 7 – Madeleine Antonellos | |
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Madeleine Antonellos is a late-stage PhD candidate from the School of Computing and Information Systems, in The University of Melbourne. She is performing interdisciplinary research in the fields of digital media, human-computer interaction and games studies. Her research is focused on the development of digital career pathways; using the digitisation and professionalisation of Cosplay in Australia as a case study. Madeleine also works as a Sessional Tutor and Content Writer in her faculty, while volunteering as an Ombudsperson-Secretary for the DiGRA Ombuds Team and as an Ordinary Board Member in the DiGRAA Australia Committee. |
2018-2021 Board
Board members – Jane Cocks, Laura M Crawford, Marcus Carter
2015-2018 Board
President – Marcus Carter
Vice President – Laura Crawford
Treasurer – Bjorn Nansen
Secretary – Melissa Rogers
Board members – Thomas Apperley, Martin Gibbs, Brendan Keogh
Student representatives – Mahli-Ann Butt, Benjamin Nicoll
2012-2015 Board
President – Martin Gibbs
Vice President – Thomas Apperley
Secretary – Laura Crawford
Treasurer – Marcus Carter
Board Members – Bjorn Nansen, Melanie Swalwell, Stewart Woods & Angela Ndalianis.