Play in education,
seriously?

We've been shortlisted for a QS Reimagine Education Award!
Our Frugal Artist-In-Residence (FAiR) project has been shortlisted in the ‘Sustainability Education Action’ category at this year’s QS awards. A huge thanks to everyone that’s been involved in the project so far. Winners will be announced in early December, wish us luck!
We believe that everybody can play and create games. We believe in games for learning, and learning through play.
GameChangers is a community of researchers, developers, and practitioners interested in exploring the opportunities of creating playful and gameful experiences as mediums for both expression and learning.
Empathic Co-Creation: The creation and co-creation of playful and gameful systems.
Remix Play 2: Card game design workshop, 2018
The creation and co-creation of playful and gameful systems, as an activity on the edge of the diverse fields is a productive ground to cultivate creative and innovative mind-sets.
Creative and playful spaces enable the hybridity of different disciplines, interests, and backgrounds to come together to experiment and learn how to fruitfully cooperate. GameChangers emphasises a pragmatic approach for empathically designing, developing, and implementing playful and gameful intervention, reflected by its various initiatives involving educators and learners in marginalised communities.
Frugal Education. Designing creative, practical, and sustainable education by leveraging frugal innovation practices.
CreativeCulture Seminar, Sarawak, Malaysia. 2018
Creativity and resilience is at the core of what we do. Over the years our team has fostered a frugal approach to education innovation; merging playful learning with creative problem-solving to deliver innovative, practical, and sustainable pedagogic practice within our projects.
We embrace openness and believe everyone should be able to benefit from our efforts. To that end, we endeavour to make all our designs, resources, and research open access; complete with guides and examples of real-world implementations to help you re-use, re-share, or remix through the power of Creative Commons. Learn more about our frugal education work here!
We love what we do and we’re proud of the recognition we’ve received along the way.
Meet the Team.

Sylvester Arnab
Co-founder | Professor of Game Science
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Alex Masters
Co-founder | Technical Lead
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Jayne Beaufoy
Research Support Lead
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Petros Lameras
Associate Professor (Emeritus)
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Willie Knoetze
Consultant | PhD Alumnus
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Jaimz Winter
PhD Student
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Tjaša Šavorič
PhD Student
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Associates.

Luca Morini
Assistant Professor

Katherine Wimpenny
Professor of Global Education Research

Mark Lewis
Game Designer
(CU Alumni)

Jacey-Lynn Minoi
Associate Professor

Fitri Suraya Mohamad
Professor in Learning Sciences

Aazani Mujahid
Marine Biologist and Researcher

Tan Chong Eng
Professor | Computer Scientist

Dominic Mahon
Lecturer in Higher Education

Samantha Clarke
Assistant Professor of Design Futures

Nguyen Thi Thom Thom
Researcher

Hoang Thi Bich Thuy
ACES Co-Investigator

Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen
Engineer

Trinh Viet Dung
Research Fellow

Muhibuddin Fadhli
Assistant Professor| ACES Co-Investigator

Rohmat Aldy Purnomo
Research Assistant

Deka Dyah Utami
Researcher

Betaria N.A.E. Hastuti
Researcher

Mike Duncan
Professor in Exercise Science

Wayne Gallear
PhD Alumnus
(North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College)

Shoubna Naika-Taylor
Lecturer and Esports in Education Specialist

Andy Winter
Assistant Professor of (Health) Simulation

Emma Eyre
Assistant Professor

John Henry
Senior Lecturer

Connah Kendrick
Senior Lecturer

Khurram Shaikh
PhD Alumnus

Suriati Khartini Jali
PhD Alumnus | Senior Lecturer
(UNIMAS)

Juliana Samson
PhD Alumnus

Emmylou Laird
PhD Alumnus

Glen Shearer
PhD Alumnus

Saif Alatrash
PhD Alumnus | Senior Technician
(Coventry University)

Supriya Roy
PhD Alumnus