Games and Gaming Lab, Glasgow (GGLab)

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Description

The Games and Gaming Lab is a research lab within the Arts Lab at the University of Glasgow. It promotes cross-disciplinary research into games and gaming, from tabletop to electronic media, from children to adults, and across periods from the ancient and modern worlds to the fantastic and the futuristic. The lab reports over 300 members, staff and students drawn from all four of the university's colleges alongside researchers at other universities internationally and people working in companies and organisations.

Its projects apply games to heritage, humanitarian and educational questions. Project HeritAIge, launched in June 2024, used artificial intelligence to turn a heritage site into a historical video game, with a responsible approach to AI stated as part of its design; other work has rebuilt the farm of Robert Burns in Minecraft, led a serious-gaming exercise developed with a United Nations humanitarian civil-military coordination body, and supported a peace-building game led elsewhere in the university. The lab also runs a public programme of events, including a student games summit and showcases of its current projects.

Currently active

Yes

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2019

Contact details

University of Glasgow
University Avenue
University Avenue
Glasgow
G12 8QQ

Website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/arts/research/artslab/ourlabs/gamesandgaming/

Public email: gaming-lab@glasgow.ac.uk

@UofGGamesLab

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Parent infrastructure(s)

Arts Lab

The Rts Lab supports researcher development, interdisciplinary collaboration, and partnership working across the College of Arts and other departments. It serves as a space for researchers of all care… read more about Arts Lab

University Of Glasgow
Central Mail Room
University Avenue
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
United Kingdom

University affiliation(s)

University of Glasgow
Glasgow

Partner Infrastructures

Innovation for Games and Media Enterprise (InGAME)

Led by Abertay University, in partnership with the University of Dundee, the University of St Andrews, InGAME delivers innovative research and research and development support to games companies in th… read more about Innovation for Games and Media Enterprise (InGAME)

Dundee

Additional Partnerships

Scottish Games Network; Scottish Games Education Network; Education Evolved Ltd; Glasgow School of Art; University of Stirling; Robert Burns Ellisland Trust; St Giles' Cathedral; South of Scotland Destination Alliance; Imperial War Museum; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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2026-09-13 17:40:02