CALL FOR PAPERS - Interactive Games Postgraduate Research Conference 2025

Are you a Postgraduate Researcher researching video games, board games, VR, or any other type of interactive play? Check out this call for papers from the Investigate.Games group over at York St John university…

investigate.games welcomes interdisciplinary contributions for 10- minute presentations from PGRs on subjects including but in no way limited to:

  • Mental health and games

  • Political economy of games

  • Games, identity and culture

  • Games, gender and sexuality

  • The video games industry

  • Roleplaying

  • eSports & competitive gaming

  • Storytelling and narrative

  • Game design & mechanics

  • The social value of games

  • Gaming communities

  • Games, harm and conflict

  • Social justice and games

  • Board games and analogue

  • games

  • Education, learning & games

  • Games and the environment

Conference date: Friday 18th July, 2025

Location: York St John University

Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May, 2025

Any questions? Contact Caitlin at c.veal@yorksj.ac.uk

Chloe Germaine