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Rhianedd Collins
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Research student
School of Global Humanities
Graduate Tutor
School of Global Humanities
Overview
I am a third year interdisciplinary PhD student (History and Computer Science) based in HUMAN. A social and cultural historian who approaches research using 'history from below' frameworks, I am also a proponent for the value of community co-production and exploring alternative and original ways to package academic research for public consumption. My PhD research, therefore, explores the potential positive benefits that digital technology and community co-production have for historical research. My thesis is a study of childhood in mid-twentieth-century south Wales, focused on themes of emotions, memory, relationships, place, and belonging. More broadly, I have research interests in Welsh history, lifecycle history, gender history, the history of emotions, memory studies, popular culture, historical game studies, and disability history.
Publication
2025
- Collins, R. 2025. Gaming generations: video game co-design with local communities to foster player experiences of historical empathy and intergenerational socialisation. Presented at: 38th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference Cardiff, UK 9-11 November 2025. Proceedings of BCS HCI 25. Electronic Workshops in Computing BCS Learning & Development Ltd. , pp.336-340. (10.14236/ewic/BCSHCI2025.36)
Conferences
- Collins, R. 2025. Gaming generations: video game co-design with local communities to foster player experiences of historical empathy and intergenerational socialisation. Presented at: 38th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference Cardiff, UK 9-11 November 2025. Proceedings of BCS HCI 25. Electronic Workshops in Computing BCS Learning & Development Ltd. , pp.336-340. (10.14236/ewic/BCSHCI2025.36)
Research
Biography
October 2024 (current): PhD.
Department of History, HUMAN, Cardiff University. 'Digital History, Heritage, and Community Co-Production: Playing the History of Childhood'. Funded internally through the Vice Chancellor's Strategic Fund.
September 2023 - September 2024: MA History.
Department of History, Swansea University. Partially funded by the Creating Futures Scholarship (School of Culture and Communications, Swansea University).
September 2020 - August 2023: BA History.
Department of History, Swansea University.
Honours and awards
- Awarded a fully funded studentship for PhD study through the Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Fund, Cardiff University, 2024.
- Awarded the Creating Futures Scholarship 2023/2024 for MA study, Swansea University.
- Winner of the Ieuan Gwynedd Jones Prize 2022 (won £100 and publication of my winning essay in Llafur: Journal of Welsh People’s History).
- Awarded the Glanmor Williams Prize in History 2023.
- Awarded the J.S.H Roberts Prize in History 2022.
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Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- 20th Century
- British history
- Digital history
- Welsh history
- Lifecycle history
