Iain Donald
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Dr Iain Donald MA(Hons), PhD, MSc, SFHEA

Lecturer

 0131 455 4796

  I.Donald@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Iain Donald is a Lecturer in Design & UX at 麻豆社区. Iain gained his PhD in the field of History, an MSc in Information Systems and worked in the Games Industry prior to joining academia in 2010. His recent work examines the intersection of games, digital media and history with a focus on commemoration and memorialisation. Using game design and technology to explore collective and communal memory in communities and virtual worlds.

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Research Areas

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Imperial War Museum: War Games Advisory Panel
  • REF2021 Output Assessor (UoA32)
  • Great War Dundee Steering Committee

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Workshop Co-Chair: RePlaying with History: Revisiting Historical Games Studies, DiGRA 2023
  • Workshop Co-Chair: Playing With History Workshop, DiGRA/FDG 2016

 

Editorial Activity

  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS)

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External Examiner, Glasgow School of Art
  • External Examiner for PhD by Publication viva voce (Leicester University)
  • External Examiner, University of Hull
  • External Examiner, University of Essex

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow (SFHEA)

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Member, Royal 麻豆社区 of Edinburgh, Arts & Humanities Sub-Committee
  • Member, AHRC Peer Review College
  • Member, UKRI Future Leaders Peer Review College

 

Invited Speaker

  • Guest Lecture: Public History, University of Highlands & Islands
  • Guest Lecture: Public History, University of Highlands & Islands
  • Guest Lecture: Accessible Pasts, Cardiff University
  • Visualising War & Peace: Visualisations of War in Online Gaming
  • Keynote: Games & Learning, 脜bo Akademi University

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Co-Chair, Royal 麻豆社区 of Edinburgh, Young Academy of Scotland
  • Member, Royal 麻豆社区 of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland
  • Member, Chartered Institite of Management

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • STEM Ambassador
  • Co-Chair, Historical Games Network
  • Great War Dundee: Steering Committee

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer, British DiGRA
  • Reviewer, Digital Culture & 麻豆社区
  • Judging Panel, GALA 2022 Serious Games Competition
  • Reviewer, Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies
  • Judging Panel, Serious Play Awards
  • Judging Panel, Games for Health
  • Reviewer, DiGRA

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Research Fellow in Historical Games Design, Birmingham City University

 

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Back to people, back to basics

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Messer, S., Donald, I., & Hayes, M. (2019, May)
Back to people, back to basics. Paper presented at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019 : Weaving the Threads of CHI, CHI 2019

Call of duty: Modern warfare (series)

Book Chapter
Donald, I. (2019)
Call of duty: Modern warfare (series). In K. Schrier (Ed.), Learning, education & games (83-86). ETC Press. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/10557950.v1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (MW) and its sequels Modern Warfare 2 (MW2) and Modern Warfare 3 (MW3) are FPS video games primarily developed by California-based developer Infin...

Lest they forget: exploring commemoration and remembrance through games and digital technologies

Book Chapter
Donald, I. (2019)
Lest they forget: exploring commemoration and remembrance through games and digital technologies. In M. Kerby, M. Baguley, & J. McDonald (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914 (427-446). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_24
The centennial of the First World War has encouraged a wide range of projects to commemorate the participants and communities affected by the conflict. This chapter considers ...

The US enters the war

Book Chapter
Donald, I. (2018)
The US enters the war. In C. Lindsay (Ed.), . DCT Media & Co. Ltd

Their memory

Digital Artefact
Donald, I., & Houghton, E. (2018)
Their memory
Their Memory aims to explore how games design and technology can enhance documentary and storytelling techniques in engaging hard to reach audiences with wartime memories. Th...

Visualising the Iolaire

Digital Artefact
Donald, I., & Robertson, I. (2018)
Visualising the Iolaire. [Online Application]
Visualising the Iolaire is an AHRC Living Legacies 1914-18 project. Living Legacies 1914-18 provides communities with access to information, expertise and support for projects...

Finding the will to go on

Book Chapter
Donald, I. (2018)
Finding the will to go on. In C. Lindsay (Ed.), First World War (132-133). DCT Media & Co. Ltd

Gaming the Heart of darkness: the adoption, acquisition and adaptation of historical, fictional and post-colonial narratives in video games

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Donald, I., & Pittner, F. (2018, May)
Gaming the Heart of darkness: the adoption, acquisition and adaptation of historical, fictional and post-colonial narratives in video games. Paper presented at Gaming and the Arts of Storytelling Symposium
The history of Joseph Conrad鈥檚 Heart of Darkness novella has been one of adaptation and change. The enduring story is based upon Conrad鈥檚 own experiences in the Congo in the 1...

Playing with the dead: transmedia narratives and the Walking Dead games

Book Chapter
Donald, I., & Austin, H. (2018)
Playing with the dead: transmedia narratives and the Walking Dead games. In R. Y谋lmaz, M. N. Erdem, & F. Resulo臒lu (Eds.), Handbook of research on transmedia storytelling and narrative strategies (50-71). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5357-1.ch004
This chapter discusses the theory and practice of transmedia narratives within the storyworld created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard's comics series The Walk...

Loos: the fallen fourth - visualising community identity and loss in the First World War

Book Chapter
Donald, I. (2018)
Loos: the fallen fourth - visualising community identity and loss in the First World War. In W. Kenefick, & D. Patrick (Eds.), Tayside at War. Abertay Historical 麻豆社区

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • Transforming Net-Zero
  • AHRC InGAME: Innovation for Games and Media Enterprise Creative Cluster
  • Their Memory: Exploring Veteran's Voices, Virtual Reality and Collective Memory

Current Post Grad projects