Who and what is playhouse?

Playhouse is more like a garage than a blog.

It’s collated by me – Diane Carr. I’m a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London. Based in the London Knowledge Lab, and associated with the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. Check the ‘blogroll’ for further information. I teach on the MA in Media, Culture and Communication. Research supervision: areas of interest include games, play, virtual worlds and film, learning, identity, subjectivity, representation.     

Research – Autumn 2008. We have just finished a research project called ‘Learning from Social Worlds, Teaching in Second Life‘, a 12 month project funded by the Eduserv Foundation (I was working with Martin Oliver and Andrew Burn). For more information, see the project blog. I finished my doctorate in 2007, titled Meaning and the Playable Text. Prior to 2007 I had a project called ‘Digital Technology, Learning and Game Formats: Computer games, motivation and gender’, funded by the Eduserv Foundation (2004-2007). There is information about this project and a final report posted here at the blog. I joined the IOE in 2001 as the research officer on an AHRB funded project called ‘Textuality and Videogames: Interactivity, Narrative Space and Role Play’ that was led by David Buckingham and Andrew Burn. Before that I was doing a lot of filing.

Contact information:
Diane Carr
London Knowledge Lab,
Institute of Education, University of London
23-29 Emerald Street,
London. WC1N 3QS.
UK

email: d.carr[at]ioe.ac.uk

Games module