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2021 Studentship Recruitment Open until 31 January 2021

Ever thought of studying for a PhD in Games? Do you have a deep fascination for what we can learn about how people play games and what people get from playing games? A passion for AI and how it can be used to make games better? A desire to make richer, more affective soundscapes for games? A wish to make games that are more tailored for the individual? ...

2019 IGGI Conference

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IGGI students and staff at the 2019 IGGI Conference

The annual IGGI conference assembles is your games research download from 50+ PhD students at York, Goldsmiths, QMUL, and Essex Universities. The conference is usually held in September.

IGGI Studentship Admissions Workshop - Q&A Session

The IGGI student Admissions Workshop took place on the 26 November 2020. If you are looking to apply to IGGI but were unable to join us for this event, we will shortly post the Q&As from the day here on the IGGI website. We hope that these will be useful for guiding you through developing a research proposal and provide further information about the IGGI Programme. ...

Welcome to the new IGGI website

Our new IGGI website was lanched in early October 2020 and over the next few weeks and months we will be adding further information and content to these pages. If you are an IGGI partner, student, supervisor or member of staff and would like to add content including updates to your profile, news items, etc., please email iggi-website@york.ac.uk ...

Peter Cowling

A Word from the Director

Welcome to IGGI! Below are a few words about the vision for IGGI, about who funds IGGI and why, and about why IGGI can be a force for good in a sometimes turbulent world. IGGI is short for the “EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence” (EPSRC is short for “Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council”). You can see why the name IGGI stuck!...