Pedro Pinto Neves

Biography

Pedro Pinto Neves holds a PhD in Media and Communication (thesis on Game Design and Agency in games, Universidade do Minho, 2017) and holds a Master in Arts degree in Digital Game Design from the University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham, UK. Pedro is an Auxiliary Professor at the Lusófona University Lisbon Campus, where he teaches game design and interactive naerratives in the videogames undergraduate degree and in the masters in Game Design at the School of Communication, Arts and Information. He is the co-director of the masters in Game Design. Pedro has worked as an editor and scientific panel member of a number of publications and conferences in game design and serious games.

As an integrated member of the Human-Enviroment Interaction (HEI-Lab) Research Unit at and the Games and Social Impact Media Research Lab (GLOW) at Lusófona University, Pedro researches serious (or applied) games in their aspects of game design research and therapeutic and critical applications. Pedro is the Principal Investigator of the PlayersAll: media agency and empowerment funded exploratory project (FCT, ref. EXPL/COM-OUT/0882/2021), which researches how therapeutic games can better leverage game-like qualities in a VR therapy game towards critical game literacy and broader impacts for therapy games. Pedro is additionally a researcher in the GameIn, Games Inclusion Lab: Participatory Media Creation Processes for Accessibility funded project (FCT, ref. 2022.07939.PTDC) which works to overcome medical models of disability and advance inclusivity in getting people with intellectual disability to take charge of their own use of games. Pedro has been a part of the TEGA (Project No. 2020-1-UK01-KA203-079248), Youth for Youth (Project No. 020-2-HU01-KA205-079126) and ID-Games (Project No. 2019-1-EL01-KA204-062517) Erasmus+ projects.

Pedro Pinto Neves is part of the FilmEU - European University for Film and Media Arts project. The project is made up of a consortium of four european universities led by Lusófona University, and is readying 4 different EMJMD (European Joint Master Degrees). Within FilmEU Pedro Pinto Neves is part of the team more directly involved with establishing an Erasmus Mundus european Games Design and Production Master's. This follows from Pedro's ongoing work as part of the team developing a new portuguese master's degree in Game Design, Research, and Production at ULHT.