Lynn Hughes, Concordia University

Research

participatory experience digital-physical games participatory theatre larps liveness intimacy scale

Latest funding

Scaling Liveness in Participatory Experiences
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$194,163
Re-figuring innovation in games
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$2,498,116
Immediations: art, media and event
SSHRC · 2012 · Co-investigator
$2,986,324

All 6 grants and awards

Scaling Liveness in Participatory Experiences

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hughes, Lynn A.

Keywords: participatory experience; digital-physical games; participatory theatre; larps; liveness; intimacy; scale

$194,163

Re-figuring innovation in games

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Grants

Keywords: digital games; gender; innovation; games industry; learning; gender-based discrimination; game studies

$2,498,116

Immediations: art, media and event

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012Partnership Grants

Keywords: research-creation; immediation; new forms of collaborative knowledge production; transdisciplinary relations between art; media and the humanities; ecologies of practices; digital archive (anarchive); new forms of exhibition and knowledge dissemination

$2,986,324

Interactive matters

Co-investigatorSSHRC2005Strategic Research Clusters Design Grants

Principal investigators: Rockwell, Geoffrey M.

$25,000

Interactive matters

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Strategic Research Clusters Design Grants

Principal investigators: Rockwell, Geoffrey M.

$24,000

New media collaboration studies network

Co-investigatorSSHRC2003Image, Text, Sounds and Technology

Principal investigators: Diamond, Sara L.

Keywords: collaboration; networks; new media culture; artist-researcher; distributed learning; participatory design; cross-disciplinary research; human computer interaction; cognition; identities; role-playing; self-reflexivity; topology; democracy; best-practice

$50,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: participatory experience Dear Professor Hughes, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on participatory experience connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Scaling Liveness in Participatory Experiences" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]