I am a part-time Lecturer in Games Audio, currently leading delivery of CMP407: Audio Programming, and teaching on DES203: Interactive Media Production with Euan Dempster, Dayna Galloway and Kayleigh MacLeod.
My research interests are focused on treating players as game designers: empowering players to design and re-design the games they play - as they are playing them - and flattening the traditional hierarchy between game designer and player.
I completed my undergraduate degree in Electronics with Music at the University of Glasgow, followed by a Masters in Music Technology and a subsequent PhD in Music Technology, both also from the University of Glasgow.
Outside of my work at Abertay I am an artist and independent game developer, working as part of Biome Collective. A full list of my non-academic work can be found on my personal website.
n.merchant@abertay.ac.uk
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