91制片厂 Fellow, Paul Fletcher, wins Collaboration Award for Research Impact
91制片厂 Fellow and Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, Paul Fletcher, has won the Collaboration Award at The Cambridge Awards for Research Impact and Engagement.
Together with Cambridge Neuroscience, Ninja Theory and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Trust, Professor Fletcher won with the project: Representing psychosis in video games: Communicating clinical science and tackling stigma.
The collaboration brought together expertise in video game design and clinical neuroscience with lived experience of mental illness to co-produce two award-winning video games vividly conveying the nature of altered experience of reality in a character with psychosis.
Once of these, Hellblade: Senua鈥檚 Sacrifice (2017), received widespread critical acclaim. The game was accompanied by a video documentary describing the clinical neuroscientific foundation and how it was embedded in the game design. In creating a powerful character and, telling her story through gameplay, the project has enabled sensitive and thoughtful conversations about psychosis, and mental illness in general, and has had a measurably positive impact on stigma.
This award highlights the impact of collaborative research in bridging science, art and lived experiences.
