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The Games Institute is thrilled to welcome a new faculty member to our community, Dr. Aynur Kadir.��Dr. Kadir is an incoming Assistant Professor of Digital Media Arts in the department of Communication Arts with plans to advance her research in mobilizing the knowledge and cultures of Indigenous heritages through interactive and immersive technologies.

GI faculty member,��Dr. Ashley Mehlenbacher,��was recently published in��“��ݮ��Ƶ Stories”,��an online publication run by the Faculty of Arts. Dr. Mehlenbacher spoke about the growth of citizen science linked to the rise of the internet.

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GI faculty members��Drs. Kristina Llewellyn��and Jim Wallace have been selected to be amongst the 10 HeForShe faculty advocates��for 2019-2020.

Games Institute member Jason Lajoie, English PhD student and researcher at the , co-hosted the Tech for Good Ethos Studio with Dr. Marcel O'Gorman, director of the Critical Media Lab, at , 2019.

Dr. Neil Randall, GI Executive Director and Chair of the Ethics, Technology and Social Impact (ETSI) Council, is a panelist for the upcoming event "Wo(man) and machine - who makes the decisions and why?".�� (WCT) is running this panel event to bring together perspectives on ethics and artificial intelligence.��

Lindsay Meaning, English PhD student studying game adaptations of literary texts and settler colonialism and imperial ideologies in single player Role-Playing Games (RPGs), presented at the (PCA) 2019 National Conference, April 17-20.

Sophie Kenny, GI alum and staff scientist at Vpixx Technologies Inc., recently presented at the 2019 (CSBBCS) Conference that took place June 7-9 at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ.