Amanda Nicole Curtis

Amanda Nicole Curtis is a researcher and games enthusiast. Her work explores how immersive technologies and digital play shape meaning making. She is particularly interested in using research to understand and empower young people’s digital futures. Amanda designs research projects which treat people not just as participants but as active collaborators. She is currently completing her doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she researches how playing video games reconfigures the ways people think, create knowledge, and make meanings in their everyday lives. She was previously a Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo. She has worked in industry as a user experience researcher, with companies such as Adobe and Sony. Amanda currently runs the Oxford Games & Technologies group, is an ambassador for Women in Games, and is a Limit Break mentor. Amanda holds a Master’s from the Oxford Internet Institute and a Bachelor’s from the University of Southern California. Her creative stamina is powered almost entirely by bottomless matcha lattes.