People at the National Videogame Archive

The core National Videogame Archive team is split between Nottingham Trent University and The National Media Museum. You can find out more about some of the team below:

Professor James Newman
James researches, writes about, talks about, and, perhaps most importantly, plays videogames. He has written widely on aspects of videogames and gaming cultures. His most recent books include volumes for Routledge Playing with Videogames (2008) and Videogames (2004); and BFI Publishing 100 Videogames (2007) and Teaching Videogames (2006). James also writes for a variety of other publications (e.g. Edge, 360) and makes regular media appearances – most recently discussing videogame preservation on BBC World Service’s Digital Planet and discussing LittleBigPlanet on BBC Radio 4′s Front Row.

Iain Simons
Iain Simons writes and talks about videogames and other cultural technologies for lots of different places including New Statesman, Design Week, BBC Focus, The First Post, Gamasutra, Next-Gen, 360, EDGE, Metro and Idle Thumbs.

He has also written a few books (100 Videogames (2007) and Inside Game Design (2008)) and collaborated on a number of chapters.

He is the Director of the GameCity videogame festival and develops other projects around it for the Centre for Contemporary Play at Nottingham Trent University.

Tom Woolley
Tom Woolley is Curator of New Media at the National Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Recent curatorial projects include developing a new gallery that focuses on the history and social impact of the Internet, and growing the Museum’s New Media collection.

Tom also programmes BAF Game, a popular splinter strand to the Bradford Animation Festival that explores the creative world of videogames.