Professor Alan Meades

Research Projects

• Keys to the Castle: Bringing Bodiam Castle to Life. Researcher(s): Dr Catriona Cooper, Mr Mike Farrant, Professor Alan Meades, Dr Katie McGown. [Project]

Research Supervisor

• A Critical, Cultural History and Quasi-Ethnography of British Professional Wrestling. Researcher(s): Mr Dave Boyd. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Professor Chris Pallant. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• An account of how video games can be used as protest art to establish a framework through which activist games can be studied. Researcher(s): Miss Holly Steventon. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Dr Magz Hall. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Changing Faces of Breast Cancer: A practice-based auto ethnography investigating the role of Augmented Reality (AR) in exploring the evolving identities associated with a breast cancer diagnosis.. Researcher(s): Miss Joanna Samuel. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Professor Shane Blackman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Creative polymaths and Interdisciplinary practice as validated and sustainable working practice Artist as collaborator in emerging creative communities and creative participatory cultures both off and online.. Researcher(s): Mr Emrys Plant. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Dr Karen Shepherdson. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Cutting-edge research on virtual games in Chinese art education. Researcher(s): Mr Suhan Li. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Dr Katie McGown. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Defining the Indie Game: History, Culture and Challenges.. Researcher(s): Dr DARIUS MALEK. Supervisor(s): Professor Chris Pallant, Dr Andy Birtwistle, Professor Alan Meades. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mr Temidayo Oladehin. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Professor Chris Pallant. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• From Virtual Worlds to Real-World Impact: Applying an Eco-Apparatus to a holistic set of Ecogames.. Researcher(s): Miss Maitry Rao. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Dr Katie McGown. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Gender Transgressions in Folk Song: Combining Traditional and Digital History Methods to Understand Gender Nonconformity in Early Modern Broadside Ballads. Researcher(s): Miss Abi Kingsnorth. Supervisor(s): Dr Catriona Cooper, Dr Dave Hitchcock, Professor Alan Meades. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• How is toxicity managed within online games by their companies?. Researcher(s): Miss Amberlea Hoare-Foote. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Professor Chris Pallant. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Making zines as place making. Researcher(s): Mr Bob Henderson. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Professor Agnes Gulyas. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Pikachu Mananda “Utau”: Pikachu Learned “Sing”: The Cross-cultural Significance & Impact of the Pokémon Franchise, as Examined Through the Lens of Music & Dance Iconography. Researcher(s): Ms Debra Pring. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Dr Lars Harald Maagero, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Should Universities invest in design-thinking pedagogy for non-design students?. Researcher(s): Ms Claudia Espana. Supervisor(s): Dr Christian Beighton, Professor Alan Meades. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Studio Ghibli’s Landscapes and Animation: Design, characteristics and process. Researcher(s): Mr James Linghorn. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Professor Chris Pallant. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• The Business and the Brilliance of Screen Culture in Kent: Film, cinemas, pop-ups and local identity in Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate, 1896-now.. Researcher(s): Ms Corinna Downing. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Dr Jane Lovell, Professor Agnes Gulyas. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Evolution of the Video Game and Game Effects in Contemporary Society. Researcher(s): Mr Scott Williams. Supervisor(s): Dr Joe Baxter-Webb, Professor Alan Meades. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• The Interconnection of Aesthetic Preference, Interactive Digital Media, and Consumer Behaviour Among Chinese Generation Z. Researcher(s): Mr Hongyu Teng. Supervisor(s): Dr Emma Graves-Sandriman, Professor Alan Meades, Professor Alan Meades. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• THE METAXIC PHOTOGRAPH. Researcher(s): Mr James Tucker. Supervisor(s): Dr Joe Baxter-Webb, Professor Alan Meades. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The scholarly hunter: A textual analysis of the ways in which Bloodborne’s narrative and environment invites player involvement and initiates critical debate. Researcher(s): Mr Devin Lampani Payne. Supervisor(s): Professor Alan Meades, Dr Andy Birtwistle. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• What impact is county lines and gang involvement having on multi agency support for vulnerable young women in education. Researcher(s): Miss Lara Rufus. Supervisor(s): Professor Shane Blackman, Dr Ruth Rogers, Professor Alan Meades. [Postgraduate Research Project]

• Playing conservatively with a radical legacy: Digital heritage and institutional tension at Prospect Cottage McGown, K., Cooper, C., Meades, A., CAA 2025 Digital Horizons: Embracing Heritage in an Evolving World. [Conference paper]
• Arcade Britannia Meades, A., (2022). London, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. [Book]
• The American arcade sanitization crusade and the amusement arcade action group Meades, A., (2019), Transgression in Games and Play: MIT Press. [Book chapter]
• Arcade tales - a social history of the British arcade Meades, A., BACTA AGM 2017. [Conference keynote]
• Arcade Tales 1 - Goddess of Retribution Meades, A., (2016): Canterbury Christ Church University. [Book]
• Arcade tales 2 - it survived the 80s and we have spare parts Meades, A.: Canterbury Christ Church University. [Book]
• Arcade tales and play cultures Meades, A., (2016), Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures Review: 2016. [Lecture]
• Beyond the animated landscape: videogame glitches and the sublime Meades, A., (2015), Animated Landscapes. New York: Bloomsbury. [Book chapter]
• Boosting, glitching and modding Call of Duty: assertive dark play manifestations, communities, pleasures and organic resilience Meades, A., (2015), The Dark Side of Game Play: Controversial Issues in Playful Environments. New York: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Understanding counterplay in video games Meades, A., (2015). New York: Routledge. [Book]
• Infectious pleasures: ethnographic perspectives on the production and use of illicit videogame modifications on the Call of Duty franchise Meades, A.: Intellect. [Journal article]
• Why we glitch: process, meaning and pleasure in the discovery, documentation, sharing and use of videogame exploits Meades, A., (2013): ETC Press. [Journal article]
• More bang for your buck—hardware hacking, real money trade, and transgressive play within console-based first-person shooters Meades, A., (2012), Guns, Grenades, and Grunts: First-Person Shooter Games. London: Continuum. [Book chapter]
• Angels and demons in a digital landscape Meades, A., (2010), Angels and Demons Conference. [Conference paper]
• Imaginary monsters: Game 3.0 and the rise of the transgressive player Meades, A., (2010): Intellect. [Journal article]