18/07/2011 | Faculty of Humanities
Fulbright scholarship for Teun Dubbelman for games research
Teun Dubbelman MA, PhD candidate at the Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC), has received the prestigious Fulbright scholarship for PhD fellows. He will spend three months at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop design guidelines for story-based computer games. Dutch designers of gaming companies have expressed a need for just that kind of knowledge.
Dubbelman’s PhD research is part of the national GATE-project (Game Research for Training and Entertainment), funded by the government to support the growing Dutch game industry. MIT has the right expertise to translate theoretical concepts into the practice of game design. With his research scholarship, Dubbelman hopes to build a bridge between scientific research and the practice of game development.
Fulbright scholarships
The Fulbright Center seeks to promote the exchange of expertise between the United States and countries such as the Netherlands. It awards up to seven PhD fellows at Dutch universities each year, to conduct part of their PhD research at an American university.