iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anna R L Carter @annarlcarter.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Staff involved in teaching and learning: share your experience with #playfullearning! Whether you use these methods, are curious about them, or sceptical – we want to hear from YOU. Help shape the future of university #HigherEd teaching 👇 nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #HCI #Design

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Delighted to welcome 32 RE:PLAY Fellows to the RE:PLAY project. research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/repla... They will be working with our learning design fellows over the next year to redevelop their modules and evidence the impacts. Watch this space.

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RE:PLAY Fellows - RE:PLAY

Prashant AgrawalDr Prashant Agrawal is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics at Northumbria University, Newcastle […]

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

My inaugural lecture for Northumbria University, State of Play: A History of Playful Learning in Ten Video Games, will be on 15 October 2025 online and in-person. All welcome. Guest appearance by everyone's favourite badger and drinks somewhere afterwards. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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State of Play: A history of Playful Learning in 10 Video Games

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Really excited to have been awarded a significant grant from the ESRC to investigate playful learning in higher education. Three years to explore play with amazing people. Happy days 😀

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Northumbria University @northumbriauni.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Northumbria’s Professor @nicwhitton.bsky.social is working with universities across the UK to lead an ESRC-funded research project exploring the benefits of more interactive and playful approaches to learning in higher education. Full story here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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New research could enhance the future of teaching in higher education

Academics from universities across the UK are about to launch a research project which could lead to changes in how higher education is taught – with a move away from traditional lectures in favour of...

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Today I managed to co-ordinate the diaries of senior colleagues at six different universities to schedule a two-day workshop less than six months in the future. I think I might just have reached the pinnacle of academic achievement.

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I just found this image in my ChatGPT image creation history. I have no memory of creating it, and no idea what I asked for, or more crucially why.

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We have a programme and two awesome keynotes 😀🎈. The Research in Digital Learning in Higher Education Conference is open for bookings. hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/ridlhe/ Come and join us in Newcastle 3-4 September 2025. Early bird closes 1 May 2025. Please share.

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RIDLHE Conference -

Research in Digital Learning in Higher Education is a new conference, launching on 3rd-4th September 2025 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 31/03/2025

Journal of Play in Adulthood is now on Bluesky, follow to (mainly) see our lovely articles!

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Only five days to go before the paper submission deadline for the first Research in Digital Learning in Higher Education Conference on 9 Feb 2025. lnkd.in/eGd7yPFW Want to submit something but can't meet the deadline? We can be flexible - please talk to me before Sunday.

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Me and @playbrarian.uk are looking to expand our existing pool of amazing reviewers for the Journal of Play in Adulthood. Please drop us a line if you're interested or want to know more. We offer support, infinite gratitude, and AI-generated haikus on request. www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk

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The Journal of Play in Adulthood

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Less than a month to go until the deadline for submissions for our new conference exploring critical perspectives on Research in Digital Learning. The submissions system is now open. Please share 😀 hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/ridlhe/

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RIDLHE Conference -

Research in Digital Learning in Higher Education is a new conference, launching on 3rd-4th September 2025 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Come an join us to start some critical conversations about education and technology in universities in the North East. All welcome but places limited.

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Ooooooh look at the exciting thing that arrived this morning

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Kid’s school: “In this email we are thinking about effective communication…” Kid’s school (15 minutes later): “We apologise for sending out the wrong link in our previous email…” 🤦‍♀️

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Exciting read arrived yesterday. The growth of play in universities is inspiring 😀

Playful pedagogy in higher education book

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

New conference alert 😀 Research In Digital Learning In Higher Education (RIDL:HE) will take place 3-4 September 2025 in Newcastle, UK. Building on principles of inclusive and playful conference design, RIDL:HE has the research community at its heart. Please join us. Please share.

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Research in Digital Learning in Higher Education is a new conference, launching on 3rd-4th September 2025 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which will provide the Higher Education sector with a space to share and critically discuss evidenced-based research and practice in digital learning.

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

We're recruiting for an AHRC Northern Bridge PhD scholarship on digital tinkering, play, and learning to fail www.northernbridge.ac.uk/applyforastu... Happy to talk to anyone who might be interested in applying. Please share. #playresearch

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Lovely impromptu trip to Darlington tonight thanks to being an adult who can’t work trains 🚂

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