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Presentations

  • OzCHI: Generative Intelligences, Planetary Futures – Sydney (2025)
  • DiGRA: Games at the Crossroads – Malta (2025)
  • DiGRA Australia – Adelaide (2025)
  • DiGRA: Playgrounds – Guadalajara (2024)
  • University of Melbourne, Faculty of Education Research Conference – Melbourne (2024)
  • The Melbourne, Academic, Games, Play, and Interactive Entertainment (MAGPIE) Launch – Melbourne (2024)
  • DiGRA Australia – Melbourne (2024)

Leadership & Academic Service

  • General Board Member – DiGRA Australia (2025 – Current)
  • AI Working Committee – DiGRA (2025 – Current)
  • Panellist – MAGPIE: Connecting Games Academia and Industry – (2025)
  • Reviewer – OzCHI (2025)
  • Reviewer – CHI Play (2024 & 2025)
  • Reviewer – DiGRA Australia (2024 & 2025)
  • Reviewer – DiGRA (2024 & 2025)
  • Reviewer – Postdigital Science and Education (2025)
  • Reviewer – Open Screens (2025)

Community Organisation & Public Engagement

  • Organiser – Building First Nations Cultural Awareness in Tech Development & Research –(Interactive Workshop) (2025)
  • Organiser – Cybernetic Futures Showcase – Melbourne Design Week (2025)
  • Contributor – Distraction Exhibition – Science Gallery (2025)
  • Contributor – Playful Paths – University of Melbourne (2025)

Teaching

  • Guest Presenter – Critical Perspectives of Play (2025) – Whittlesea Tech School (Secondary Education)
  • Head Tutor – Game Design – University of Melbourne (INFO30009) (2023 – Current)
  • Tutor – Internet Communication – University of Melbourne (MECM20003) (2023 – Current)
  • Guest Lecturer & Assessor – Video Games: Remaking Reality (CCDP10003) – University of Melbourne (2021 – Current)

Research:

  • Research Assistant – Racism in Higher Education (2025) – University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts
  • Research Assistant – Positive Micro-Experiences in Commercial Games (2024) – University of Melbourne, Center of Wellbeing Science
  • Intern – WikiHistories (2024) – University of Sydney
  • Research Assistant – Digital Wellbeing (2022 – 2023) – University of Melbourne, Faculty of Education
 

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