Aasa Timonen - Our Next International Visiting Research Fellow
The Manchester Game Centre is thrilled to be welcoming its first International Visiting Research Fellow. Aasa Timonen, a PhD researcher from Tampere University’s Game Research Lab, will be joining us in October for a month-long visit.
Aasa’s research is focused on transmedia practises of analogue games. Her upcoming dissertation work (supervised by Dr. Mikko Meriläinen and Dr. Jaakko Stenros) is about transmedia worldbuilding of Warhammer 40,000, how it has changed over the decades and how players navigate in the ever-changing and shifting worlds of the grim darkness of far future, both on tabletop and outside of it. As a life-long Warhammer hobbyist, her expertise on the subject is a mix of both academic knowledge and personal experience with various analogue games.
During her stay, Aasa will be researching player experiences with the different transmedia products in relation to their gameplay experiences. We’re looking forward to working with Aasa and to hearing more about her work. Over the next few months we’ll be confirming the plans for her visit in October which we hope will include an afternoon of presentations on Games Workshop’s tabletop games. Watch this space…
Aasa’s visit is sponsored by a grant from the Tampere University Communication Sciences Unit with funding provided by the C.W. Åkerlund Media Foundation.
