Caitlin Veal 👾
@caitlinveal.bsky.social
@investigatedot.bsky.social 🧡
Social Sciences AA and PhD researcher at York St John 🎓 interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side🦕👾💀
Social Sciences AA and PhD researcher at York St John 🎓 interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side🦕👾💀
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Caitlin Veal 👾
@caitlinveal.bsky.social
· Sep 14
Pleased to share my first first-author paper, available to read now in Games and Culture! 👾🧡
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Caitlin Veal 👾
Another successful Games Lab! This November marks our third year running the lab at Aesthetica Film Festival. Thanks to everyone who came along!👾🩷 #ASFF2025
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Another successful Games Lab! This November marks our third year running the lab at Aesthetica Film Festival. Thanks to everyone who came along!👾🩷 #ASFF2025
Reposted by Caitlin Veal 👾
Wrote up a short piece about the Interactive Games PGR conference that took place a few weeks ago. There really were too many excellent papers to list in detail, but here I share the main idea of my keynote: allowing yourself to experiment and push theory in new directions. bcmcr.org/research/key...
July 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Wrote up a short piece about the Interactive Games PGR conference that took place a few weeks ago. There really were too many excellent papers to list in detail, but here I share the main idea of my keynote: allowing yourself to experiment and push theory in new directions. bcmcr.org/research/key...
Really looking forward to this year’s event!
🧡 If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day!
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
July 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Really looking forward to this year’s event!
Reposted by Caitlin Veal 👾
🧡 If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day!
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
July 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🧡 If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day!
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
There is roughly a day remaining to sign up to attend this years Interactive Games PGR Conference 2025! 🧡 (programme to follow when I return from DiGRA)
Sign up and register your attendance here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interactiv...
Sign up and register your attendance here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interactiv...
July 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
There is roughly a day remaining to sign up to attend this years Interactive Games PGR Conference 2025! 🧡 (programme to follow when I return from DiGRA)
Sign up and register your attendance here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interactiv...
Sign up and register your attendance here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interactiv...
So glad to have pushed through the anxiety to present my findings at the DiGRA 2025 PhD Consortium! I was genuinly terrified but the feedback and discussion was so valuable and the whole conference has been a real highlight of my PhD journey so far! So excited for the rest of the week! ☀️✨🇲🇹
July 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So glad to have pushed through the anxiety to present my findings at the DiGRA 2025 PhD Consortium! I was genuinly terrified but the feedback and discussion was so valuable and the whole conference has been a real highlight of my PhD journey so far! So excited for the rest of the week! ☀️✨🇲🇹
Lovely first afternoon in Malta ahead of DiGRA 2025! Really looking forward to the PhD Consortium tomorrow, and so excited to explore Valletta over the next week!! ☀️✨
June 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Lovely first afternoon in Malta ahead of DiGRA 2025! Really looking forward to the PhD Consortium tomorrow, and so excited to explore Valletta over the next week!! ☀️✨
Thank you to everyone who submitted to present this year! I am so excited to be able to run the event again and looking forward to meeting and catching up with everyone!✨
The third I.G PGR Conference is in little under 2 months and the submission portal is still open to accept submissions, with an amended deadline of Friday 6th June! 🧡
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
June 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Thank you to everyone who submitted to present this year! I am so excited to be able to run the event again and looking forward to meeting and catching up with everyone!✨
Last chance for PGRs to submit to this year’s Interactive Games PGR Conference! ⬇️✨
The third I.G PGR Conference is in little under 2 months and the submission portal is still open to accept submissions, with an amended deadline of Friday 6th June! 🧡
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
June 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Last chance for PGRs to submit to this year’s Interactive Games PGR Conference! ⬇️✨
ARK: Survival Ascended is best played in the company of your own mini dinosaur 🦎💚
May 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
ARK: Survival Ascended is best played in the company of your own mini dinosaur 🦎💚
Games studies PhD and Masters students, please check this out! A free event hosted by investigate.games at York St John University💫🌟excited for this years conference✨
The third I.G PGR Conference is in little under 2 months and the submission portal is still open to accept submissions, with an amended deadline of Friday 6th June! 🧡
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
May 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Games studies PhD and Masters students, please check this out! A free event hosted by investigate.games at York St John University💫🌟excited for this years conference✨
Reposted by Caitlin Veal 👾
An amazing conference for PGRs in video games! Find the dates and submission details below! 🎮⭐️
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨
We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference!
📍 York St John University
📆 Friday 18th July
Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference!
📍 York St John University
📆 Friday 18th July
Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
February 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
An amazing conference for PGRs in video games! Find the dates and submission details below! 🎮⭐️
Reposted by Caitlin Veal 👾
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨
We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference!
📍 York St John University
📆 Friday 18th July
Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference!
📍 York St John University
📆 Friday 18th July
Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
February 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨
We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference!
📍 York St John University
📆 Friday 18th July
Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
We looking for submissions for 10 minute presentations by PhD and Masters students for our annual Interactive Games PGR Conference!
📍 York St John University
📆 Friday 18th July
Submission deadline: Friday 23rd May
🔗 Submit here: forms.office.com/e/MaZq8Dpp10
Reposted by Caitlin Veal 👾
It’s the last weekend of our Games Lab at the Yorkshire Games Festival at the National Science + Media Museum! This weekend we have a whole host of developers in attendance to showcase and talk you through their games - so come and take a look! 👾🧡
February 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It’s the last weekend of our Games Lab at the Yorkshire Games Festival at the National Science + Media Museum! This weekend we have a whole host of developers in attendance to showcase and talk you through their games - so come and take a look! 👾🧡
Reposted by Caitlin Veal 👾
This week we are at the Yorkshire Games Festival showcasing 23 games by Yorkshire based games developers at our Games Lab!The Lab is based at the National Science + Media Museum in Bradford from 15-23rd February, so do come down and take a look!👾
February 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This week we are at the Yorkshire Games Festival showcasing 23 games by Yorkshire based games developers at our Games Lab!The Lab is based at the National Science + Media Museum in Bradford from 15-23rd February, so do come down and take a look!👾
So excited to have had my submission accepted for the PhD Consortium as part of this year’s DiGRA Conference in Malta!🇲🇹 My first external and international conference, really looking forward to it ✨
February 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
So excited to have had my submission accepted for the PhD Consortium as part of this year’s DiGRA Conference in Malta!🇲🇹 My first external and international conference, really looking forward to it ✨
Couldn’t come all the way to Edinburgh without paying a lil visit to Greyfriars Bobby, and Greyfriars Kirkyard 🐶⛪️💀
February 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Couldn’t come all the way to Edinburgh without paying a lil visit to Greyfriars Bobby, and Greyfriars Kirkyard 🐶⛪️💀
@investigatedot.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! Follow to keep up to date with the going’s on in the research group, events, publications and research opportunities. Exciting things coming very soon!!🧡
January 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
@investigatedot.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! Follow to keep up to date with the going’s on in the research group, events, publications and research opportunities. Exciting things coming very soon!!🧡
Hello to my new followers on here! I am looking for a few more participants to take part in my PhD study. In this instance I am particularly interested in speaking to participants who identify as female.
See the poster below & sign up here:
forms.office.com/e/4enXsLFjpk
Any reposts appreciated 👾💜
See the poster below & sign up here:
forms.office.com/e/4enXsLFjpk
Any reposts appreciated 👾💜
November 20, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Hello to my new followers on here! I am looking for a few more participants to take part in my PhD study. In this instance I am particularly interested in speaking to participants who identify as female.
See the poster below & sign up here:
forms.office.com/e/4enXsLFjpk
Any reposts appreciated 👾💜
See the poster below & sign up here:
forms.office.com/e/4enXsLFjpk
Any reposts appreciated 👾💜
One of my favourite things to do on a city break is visit the cemeteries for the social history and architecture. Had a day in Paris so paid a visit to some of my favourite scholars: Pierre Bourdieu and Jean Baudrillard ✨
November 16, 2024 at 5:37 PM
One of my favourite things to do on a city break is visit the cemeteries for the social history and architecture. Had a day in Paris so paid a visit to some of my favourite scholars: Pierre Bourdieu and Jean Baudrillard ✨
Reposted by Caitlin Veal 👾
Next week in Luxemburg in "History @ Play" with a talk on "Horror – Game – Politics: A History of Ideas in the Horrific"
#GameStudies #HorrorStudies #HistoryOfIdeas
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
#GameStudies #HorrorStudies #HistoryOfIdeas
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
November 12, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Next week in Luxemburg in "History @ Play" with a talk on "Horror – Game – Politics: A History of Ideas in the Horrific"
#GameStudies #HorrorStudies #HistoryOfIdeas
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
#GameStudies #HorrorStudies #HistoryOfIdeas
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
Hello - I am looking for a few more participants for my PhD study! Please see the poster and link below, & any reposts would be greatly appreciated 🧡 forms.office.com/e/4enXsLFjpk
October 22, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Hello - I am looking for a few more participants for my PhD study! Please see the poster and link below, & any reposts would be greatly appreciated 🧡 forms.office.com/e/4enXsLFjpk
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #645,999!
September 21, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #645,999!
Pleased to share my first first-author paper, available to read now in Games and Culture! 👾🧡
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 14, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Pleased to share my first first-author paper, available to read now in Games and Culture! 👾🧡
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Caitlin Veal 👾
Hello Game Studies friends: if you're working on a topic related to Transformative Games, please consider submitting to this special issue CfP, led by Kristine Jørgensen Doris Carmen Rusch and yours truly: www.gamejournal.it/n122024-tran...
n.12/2024 – Transformative Games Revisited « G|A|M|E
www.gamejournal.it
April 25, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Hello Game Studies friends: if you're working on a topic related to Transformative Games, please consider submitting to this special issue CfP, led by Kristine Jørgensen Doris Carmen Rusch and yours truly: www.gamejournal.it/n122024-tran...