About Speaker

Dr. Aphra Kerr is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Maynooth University in Ireland. She has researched the changing nature of the games industry over the past twenty years. She was a co-investigator on the ‘Refiguring Innovation in Digital Games’ project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2015-2020) for which she researched gamejams, game making and diversity. Aphra’s books include Global Games: Production, Circulation and Policy in the Networked Age, Routledge, 2017. This is her first time to present at IndieCade.