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Matthew Thomas Keracher

  • Teaching Assistant Dissertator, Anthropology

Education

  • MRes Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 2019
  • MA Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 2016

Research Interests

Matthew's interests are in digital making, or making things with code. His fieldwork is in Fjaler, western Norway, where he is conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a small village. From January 2023, he will be there for eighteen months conducting participant-observation, semi-structured interviews, and learning how to code, knit, and farm.

Related Activities

Matthew is part of a cohort of  interdisciplinary games scholars called serious_play. They have a Twitch channel. Last year, as part of his role as the Outreach Officer, he co-organised a live streamed colloquium on the theme of playful mediation with the Game Worlds Cluster at the University of Edinburgh, as well as a seminar with on board games as media with Dr. Paul Booth.