DiGRA Australia (DiGRAA) was founded in late 2013 as a local chapter of DiGRA. The board is comprised of a four-person executive (President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer) and, currently, six board members.
2022–2023 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 – 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. |
| Treasurer – Madeleine Antonellos | |
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Madeleine Antonellos is a late-stage PhD candidate in the School of Computing and Information Systems, at The University of Melbourne (Australia). She is writing her thesis on the future of digital careers, through the lens of an extended case study on the professionalisation and digitisation of cosplay in Australia. Along with tutoring in her faculty, and writing news articles for her lab, the Human-Computer Interaction group, at the university; she is also an assistant ombudsperson for the DiGRA Ombuds Team. Madeleine’s last role with DiGRAA was general board member, having previously acted as editorial board member for Press Start |
| 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). |
2022–2023 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 – 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. |
| Seat 3 – Mahli-Ann Butt | |
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Mahli-Ann Butt is a digital ethnographer, writer, and researcher of the industry publics and cultures of videogames, focusing on the production of embodied precarity. She is research chair of the Sydney Games and Play Lab and research assistant at the University of Sydney. She has served on the international executive board for DiGRA since 2016, and was a founding editorial board member and former Editor-in-Chief of Press Start. |
| 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 | |
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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 | |
2021–2022 Board
President – Brendan Keogh
Vice President – April Tyack
Treasurer – Jane Mavoa
Secretary – Benjamin Nicoll
Board members – Fraser Allison, Malcolm Ryan, Ben Egliston, Erin Maclean, Premeet Sidhu, Gawain Lax, Madeleine Antonellos
2018–2021 Board
President – Brendan Keogh
Vice President – April Tyack
Treasurer – Jane Mavoa
Secretary – Benjamin Nicoll
Board members – Jane Cocks, Laura M Crawford, Marcus Carter, Fraser Allison, Malcolm Ryan
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