Update
Near the end of my third week as a scholarship researcher.
All the domestics and admin of settling into Finland have gone fine so far, through I've still a bit more to do in that respect. Socially it's also been going great.
Update on my academic progress:
- I had some useful feedback on my theory based paper (which I presented a draft off at DiGRA in May). Lots more to do on that, but it's progressing.
- After developing an idea for an experiment at the end of the first week and presenting it in a research group meeting in the second week, I've been focusing on getting it set up read to actually do (which includes experimental design, writing up the methodology, preparing the stimulus material and handling the IT backend to record the results). I'm hoping to go live with the experiment at the end of next week. I don't want to say too much publicly until the experiment is completed, for reasons. This is my aim focus at the moment.
side projects:
- I've submitted a freeform scenario ('Just a little peril') to the Golden Cobra contest; I limited myself to less than a day on it so this wouldn't distract from my academic work.
- A scenario pitch I wrote a while back (in one evening) for an edu-larp design contest has been published:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9H_iy-bxyDvRk53SURkTEFSeXc&usp=sharing&tid=0B9H_iy-bxyDvbi15SnlsZGhLZDg
- Midsummer now has a FB group:
https://www.facebook.com/Midsummer-1659494344299581/
I've been organising play sesssions of it in Tampere, and a friend of mine did so in Helsinki. I'm also told it's selling well at my local games shop in Bristol.
- I've done a bit more our big new larp projet, writing the first few draft characters.