A talk by a leading historian, Dr Jennifer Cromwell (Reader in History, Manchester Met), who uses video and analogue games in their research and their pedagogical practice. 

In the 2023/24 academic year, Dr Cromwell launched a new final year undergraduate module, “Gaming and the Humanities”, which is open to all students studying within the Department of History, Politics, and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. The module combines critical games studies (the analysis of various topics as presented within analogue and digital games) and a creative assessment, in which students use games as a medium to present academic topics of interest to them. 

In this talk, Dr Cromwell discusses the aims of the module, the role of games as democratising and decolonising pedagogic tools, and also how working on this module (both its development and delivery) have impacted their own research practices.