Emma Reay is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Her research intends to fill the scholarly gap surrounding 'children's videogames' by bringing together games scholarship and children's literature scholarship. Her research interests include the function of textual children and constructions of childhood in videogames, the ‘childly’ aesthetic, digital toys, wordless storytelling, and de-gamification. Emma is the founder of the KiDDNG project (Kids Depicted in Digital Narrative Games) and runs the online research platform 'Gamebridge'. She has lectured at the University of Southampton and Anglia Ruskin University and is the Research Committee representative for the Faculty of Education. Emma is the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s award, the Pigott award, the Jacqueline Wilson award, the Jean Rudduck Memorial award, and her research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her recent work is published in ‘International Research in Children’s Literature’ (July 2018) and ‘Games and Culture’ (April 2019).
