Tom Shrimplin
Tom's PhD project title is “Good game”? Young people, violence and geopolitics in the ludic assemblages of Call of Duty: Warzone' Read more about Tom's research.
About Tom
I'm a third-year PhD student funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Project description
My project focuses on the young people who play Call of Duty: Warzone and other Battle Royale videogames.
I aim to understand how geopolitics emerges through ‘everyday’ practices and explore its effect on young people. For the project I use a mixed methods approach. This includes participant observation and semi-structured interviews under the label of assemblage ethnography.
This research attends to the ways in which young people are co-constitutive of the geopolitical assemblages that emerge in their everyday lives.
Personal interests
My research interests traverse political and cultural geography. I have a particular interest in young people’s everyday experiences of geopolitics, digital cultures and play.
Presentations
- PGF Midterm Conference: Digital Geographies and the Everyday, 2021
Teaching
- HSS8001: Thinking about Research
- HSS8003: Dissertation Preparation
- GEO2111: Doing Human Geography Research: Theory and Practice
- GEO3153: Geographies of Race and Nation
Academic qualifications
- MA Human Geography Research, Newcastle University, 2017-2018
- BSc Honours Geography, Newcastle University, 2014-2017
Contact
Email: T.W.Shrimplin1@newcastle.ac.uk