Finally, a PhD project page that looks the way all should look!
Gamelearning.net is Jacob Habgood's PhD project description and it is a pleasure to read mainly because it has great and pertinent illustrations. Many academics believe that just because they focus on so-called "content", their material does not need to be fun. That is also the case with most academic papers, which generally avoid colloquial terms and expressions. I believe that we can be precise in our ideas while trying to make our work enjoyable to read. At least, that has been the philosophy behind my reviews at gamestudies (plain English can beat academese most of the times). Of course, Jacob may have the talent or the access to people who can illustrate his site. Don't we all do? Copyright concerns aside (no, it is not a big if), there are plenty of images that could illustrate our research projects, if not on their printed versions, at least on the websites. And if your University has concern about copyrighted web images, then move your server to Uruguay or some other Third World country.
rWe should all do this not just because it may be cute, but because text by itself can be evil. Let's put some of the video part back into videogame studies!