Daisy Abbott
Daisy Abbott
- Reader in Game-Based Learning
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6870-8481- Professional Title
- Reader in Game-Based Learning
- Job Title
- Reader in Game-Based Learning
- School or Academic Area
- School of Innovation and Technology
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Innovation and Technology
- D.Abbott@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- School of Innovation and Technology The Glasgow School of Art 65 West Regent St Glasgow G2 2AF
Biography
Daisy Abbott is an interdisciplinary researcher and research developer. She specialises in game-based learning, serious games, 3D visualisation, and issues surrounding digital interactions in the arts and humanities. In particular, she is investigating the use of games to teach academic and research skills in Higher Education and the use of Augmented Reality for telling stories about history and heritage.
Daisy is a Senior Fellow Advance HE and a Senior Fellow of ALDinHE. She is a peer reviewer for a range of serious game journals, a judge for the GaLA serious games competition, and a reviewer for EPSRC and ESRC. She is also a STEM Ambassador.
Her publications can be found at https://radar.gsa.ac.uk/view/creators/436.html and her personal research blog is https://gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/
Research Interests
game-based learning, serious games, serious game design, triadic game design, heritage visualisation, digital heritage, research skills development
Grants
* Decolonising the British Empire Exhibition of 1938 through Augmented Reality Narratives. AHRC, £93k. PI. 2024 - 2025. https://sit.gsa.ac.uk/project/decolonising-augmented-reality
* Game-based approaches for research skills. Creative Founders Fund, £9k. PI. 2024.
* SECRIOUS - Serious Coding: A Game approach to security for the new code-citizens. EPSRC, £1m. CoI. 2020- 2023. https://secrious.github.io/
* Agents of Change Toolkit. SUII, £10k. CoI. 2020 - 2021. https://www.agentsofchangetoolkit.org/
* * Boundaries: an immersive Mixed Reality performance for one audience member. National Theatre of Scotland, £10k. CoI. 2018.
* Research Engagement through Virtual Immersive Tools for Learning (REVISIT) project. AHRC, £90k. Lead Researcher. 2015 - 2016. https://sit.gsa.ac.uk/project/revisit
* Storystorm. EPSRC Culture & Communities Network. CoI.
* British Empire Exhibition, 1938: Semantic Annotation project. AHRC, £95k. Lead Researcher. 2010 - 2011. https://sit.gsa.ac.uk/project/3d-heritage-data
* Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory. JISC, £15k. PI.
* Digital Collections for the Performing Arts in the UK. PI.
PGR Supervision Interests
game-based learning, serious game design, games for good, games for change, games for transformative reflection
Current PGR Students
Jiawen Li: AI-Assisted Sketching to Support Creative Ideation
Ruaridh Dall: Serious Games for Empathy in Dental Education
Former PGR Students
Dr. Ying Zhang: Exploring the role of Virtual Reality technology to support the development of creative practice in visual arts education: an in-depth case study of graffiti art.
Teaching
Academic Skills for Master's Research (MSc Visualisation): Course lead.
Serious Games Design & Research (MSc Visualisation): Tutor
Serious Games (UG elective, S.I.T): Tutor
Research Ethics (various programmes from UG-PGR): Tutor
Interactive Narratives (various programmes and CPD): Tutor
AI and Academic integrity (various programmes and CPD): Tutor
Latest Additions
- Cantali, Dianne, Abbott, Daisy and Pantić, Nataša (2026) Agents of Change Toolkit for Educational Change. In: Teachers as Change Agents. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, pp. 107-120. ISBN 9783032032645
- Abbott, Daisy, Broadley, Cara and Missaghian-Schirazi, Sara (2025) Polyvocal Histories through Augmented Reality. ICERI2025 Proceedings, 18th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. pp. 1294-1304. ISSN 2340-1095
- Dall, Ruaridh, Bond, Paul, Cherukara, George, Abbott, Daisy and Jayasinghe, Jaya (2025) Scoping Literature Review of Digital Empathy Games in Healthcare Education and Training. European Journal of Dental Education. pp. 1-14. ISSN 1600-0579
- Abbott, Daisy and Jeffrey, Stuart (2025) Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives. Advanced Research Centre (ARC), The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 6 - 15 November 2025
- Abbott, Daisy (2025) Empire Retold: other voices from the British Empire Exhibition. Garnethill Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, 17 July – 9 August 2025
- Maarek, Manuel, Abbott, Daisy, Chatzifoti, Olga, Shah, Ryan, Chan, Sheun Chi, Loidl, Hans-Wolfgang, Stewart, Robert, Ferguson, Jamie, Louchart, Sandy Jean-Jacques, Stals, Shenando and Baillie, Lynne (2025) Empower New Code Citizens to Reflect and Communicate on Code Security. IEEE Security & Privacy. pp. 2-11. ISSN 1558-4046
- Stals, Shenando, Baillie, Lynne, Ferguson, Jamie Iona, Abbott, Daisy, Maarek, Manuel, Shah, Ryan and Louchart, Sandy Jean-Jacques (2025) Evaluating Serious Slow Game Jams as a Mechanism for Co-Designing Serious Games to Improve Understanding of Cybersecurity. Games: Research and Practice. ISSN 2832-5516
- Abbott, Daisy (2024) Game-Based Approaches for Research Skills Training and Researcher Development: A Survey of Attitudes and Acceptance in Higher Education. ICERI2024 Proceedings. pp. 1440-1449. ISSN 2340-1095
- Abbott, Daisy (2024) Remade in 3D: Empire Exhibition, Glasgow 1938. Dundee, 26th Oct 2024
- Dai, Junlong, Abbott, Daisy and Bialic, Hannah (2024) An Educational Game to Teach Immune Evasion of the Schistosome and Validation of Its Impact. In: Medical Visualization and Applications of Technology. Biomedical Visualization, 2 (5). Springer, Cham, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 263-295. ISBN 9783031634628
