Dr Noreen Dunnett is an associate tutor on the MSc in Digital Education programme, working on the 'Critical Issues in Digital Education' and 'Digital Games, Play and the Psychology of Learning' courses.
Her research interests focus on boredom, disengagement and sociomaterial practices in schools and digital games and how affective environments for learning are created. Current projects include a book chapter entitled 'Sociomaterial perspectives on hybrid learning in primary classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic' in the book Teacher Identity and Teaching Practice Post-COVID edited by Dr Katy Marsh-Davies & Prof Cathy Burnett (available Nov 2023) and a research monograph based on her thesis Reimagining Boredom in Classrooms through Digital Game Spaces: Sociomaterial Perspectives, published by Routledge, March/April 2024.
She blogs occasionally about sociomaterial approaches to classroom learning, digital games and engagement at Learning in the Digital Age
Email: ndunnet2@ed.ac.uk
Twitter: @comcultgirl
Threads: @noreendunnett@threads.net