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Children & Young People’s Experiences and Understandings of Gambling-Style Systems in Digital Games

26 November 2025, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm

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'Loot Boxes, Popular Culture & Changing Childhoods'. Join this CCSC Lunch Time Exchange with Prof Sarah Mills, a VRF at the Critical Childhood Studies Centre.

Event Information

Open to

UCL staff | UCL students

Organiser

Critical Childhood Studies Centre

Location

Hybrid: online and room 736
IOE, 20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL

Details to follow.

All UCL staff and students welcome. Contact Feryal Awan and Diana Sousa for more details. 

If you’d like to lead a session—whether it’s a lecture, a workshop on an in-progress grant application or article, a book reading, or another activity—please let us know. Sessions can be kept informal, limited to CCSC staff and student members, or opened to the wider public, depending on the nature of the event and your preference.

Image: Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

The Critical Childhood Studies Centre is a home for world-leading scholarship about childhood as a socio-political, cultural, and historical phenomenon in diverse global contexts. The Centre provides a focal point for faculty and students at all levels in UCL to engage in innovative and multi-disciplinary research, teaching, and public engagement geared towards achieving social justice with and for children and young people.

About the Speaker

Prof Sarah Mills

Visiting Research Fellow at Critical Childhood Studies Centre, UCL

During my fellowship with the CCSC, I will continue to develop collaborative work on digital geographies of childhood and youth, building on a recent ESRC project on children and young people’s experiences of gambling style systems in digital games (with Prof. James Ash and Dr Rachel Gordon, Newcastle University).  I will be developing and presenting on new research mapping digital childhoods.

More about Prof Sarah Mills