- About
- Convenor
About
The funding provided by CDH allowed to develop a first prototype of the game and host a series of workshops with school teachers, game developers and academics. Without this funding we would not have been able to put this project together and apply for more funding to carry on. Thank you to CDH for supporting us!
- Dr Alexis Litvine, Pembroke College and Senior Researcher at CAMPOP.
The Bid Development Award helped prepare a bid to develop an innovative approach to game-based learning in a collaborative, benefitting students, teachers, and game designers. A game prototype articulates multiple causal chains in a game format, letting students explore causal links iteratively through play to discover and formalise the relationship between the games’ variables on their own in a formal school setting.
Convenor
- Dr Alexis Litvine (College Lecturer at Pembroke College and a Senior Researcher at The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP)).
Dr Alexis Litvine is a College Lecturer at Pembroke College and a Researcher at The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP).
Alexis is a comparative economic historian of eighteenth and nineteenth-century France and Europe, interested in all things related to the Industrial Revolution. His work has been focused on the social construction and diffusion of economic norms, the history of temporality and spatiality in the context of industrialisation, and the history of mechanical labour surveillance. Having also recently developed a strong interest in Digital Humanities, and specifically: historical geospatial analysis, corpus linguistics and Handwritten Text Recognition for complex historical documents, combining advances in the fields of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing to extract and process very large amounts (several millions and in some cases billions of images) of historical data.
The THOTH technology (www.thothtranscription.org) is now used to produce data for several social sciences research projects in France and the UK. Alexis is one of the founders of a startup, Osiris-AI, that processes documents for businesses and the heritage sector.
