Tag: funding

  • The Foundation for Economic Education awards funding to Timonen’s doctoral research

    The Foundation for Economic Education awards funding to Timonen’s doctoral research

    We are happy to share that the Foundation for Economic Education (Liikesivistysrahasto) has granted funding for MA Aasa Timonen for her doctoral research project Transmedia worldbuilding in massive game franchises. Description of the dissertation study: This research builds on the fields of transmedia studies by looking at how different transmedia products are used in the…

  • Kone Foundation awards funding to two Gamelab researchers

    Kone Foundation awards funding to two Gamelab researchers

    Kone Foundation has granted funding for two doctoral research projects in Game Research Lab from early 2025!  Julián Gutiérrez Carrera: Representations of Suicide in Videogames This doctoral dissertation is the first long-term, long-form research project on representations of suicide in videogames. In it, I research how videogames depict, simulate, and represent suicide, since videogames offer…