Senate Report
The GI Senate Report collates all the research, outputs, games, and more GI members put out between 2015 - 2020.
2015-2020 5 Year Senate Report
Impact Report
The Impact Report highlights the critical contributions the GI and our researchers make on a yearly basis. As the title states, the aim of this report is to showcase the ways that our team of internationally recognized interdisciplinary researchers are creating imaginative and impactful work every single day. While this work includes books and journal articles, we also produce games, apps, art, and so much more. The GI is a research community that welcomes anyone and everyone studying games at the university and beyond. It has been our mission to make our community as equitable, accessible, and appealing as possible to people of all genders, races, religions, orientations, and abilities.
2023 Impact Report: The Games Institute and UW's Global Futures
2021 Impact Report: Impact with Imagination
Instant Replay
The termly Instant Replay is a carefully curated document that gives a brief overview of the research and culture in the Institute each term. This "replay" allows for a closer, more in depth, informal look at what individual members are doing, and also gives insight into the kind of environment the GI membership fosters.
Fall 2024: Championing Research Excellence
Spring 2024: A Celebration of Interdisciplinary Research
Winter 2024: Future Directions of GI Research Impact
Fall 2023: Gathering Global Guests
Spring 2023: Games Institute Globetrotters
Winter 2023: Collaboration, Cooperation and Connection
Fall 2022: Networking and New Faces
Spring 2022: Growing the Global Games Institute
Winter 2022: Hidden Stories and Social Justice Research
Fall 2021: Interdisciplinarity at Play
Spring 2021: Virtual Worlds, Real Communities
A special note on the future of the Instant Replay:
Dear GI Members, UW Community, and all who have enjoyed Instant Replay,
This will most likely be the last Instant Replay the Games Institute (GI) produces for the foreseeable future due to the uncertain funding future of the GI, impacting the retention of its highly specialized, interdisciplinary staff to support such publications. Instant Replay first began as a concept in 2017, when GI Executive Director Dr. Neil Randall and Associate Director Agata Antkiewicz were brainstorming on how to better showcase GI activities with the greater University of ݮƵ community. As an interdisciplinary centre, the GI has always fiercely championed mixed methods research, all forms of methodology, alternative & non-academic publishing, and nuanced disciplinary quirks that are not easily encapsulated by quantitative, performance metrics common in annual reports are. After much deliberation, the two concluded that the best way to demonstrate the GI’s impact, would be by harnessing the power of storytelling for a termly report catered toward GI members and other interested audiences.
In early 2021, this conceptual bundle of stories, research, and strategic vision came to Pamela Maria Schmidt’s desk, who, at the time, was the GI’s Research Project Facilitator. She had a hand in generating content for previous iterations of Instant Replays by writing News Bites and organizing content. Now, she was asked to take the “Instant Replay” as it was and turn it into an internal report for GI membership to see their accomplishments, while also collecting information that would help formal reports like the annual Impact Report, and the quinquennial Senate Renewal Report.
In Fall 2021, Sid Heeg joined the GI staff team to assist Schmidt in crafting more in-depth Research Spotlights, tracking GI member accomplishments (like publications and grants), and developing a consistent tone for Instant Replays. The publications were made into print copies and are also available digitally on the GI website to ensure that all research is accessible.
Heeg and Schmidt’s collaborative relationship created what the Instant Replay is today. They built comprehensive guidelines (both visual and written) which led to 11 Instant Replays in their current form. They have been shared with UݮƵ presidents, Faculty Deans, Associate Deans of Research, as well as the many guests that have visited the GI.
We hope that, one day, the Instant Replay can return to continue sharing the excellent talent of our members, the vibrancy of our community, and quality of research produced. But for now, we’d like to thank the many co-op students who have had a hand in the process, Agata Antkiewicz for her excellent editing skills and sharp eye, and Dr. Emma Vossen’s assistance in developing a written style guide.
With warmth, hope, and kindness,
Pamela Maria Schmidt and Sid Heeg
The GI’s Interdisciplinary Project & Communications Manager, and Research Communications Writer & Social Media Manager