UNESCO Chair on Refugee Integration through Education, Language and Arts

In this episode, Timothy Peacock and Rebecca Sutton talk about their work at the Games and Gaming Lab at the University of Glasgow. Rebecca talks about her experience designing a game together with the Lab and invites you to come to the launch of her peace game later this week.

This presentation was inspired by the workshop Tim & Rebecca hosted at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2025, which took place in May 2025. 

Please scroll down for the biographies of the speakers.

Timothy Peacock is a Senior Lecturer in History & War Studies, and Director/co-founder of University of Glasgow’s Games and Gaming Lab (UofGGamesLab). His research includes nuclear history, space security, games & gaming, AI and politics. He leads up to 35 researchers, interns and software programmers as Principal Investigator for funded research and educational cross-disciplinary innovation projects, from developing Serious Games on Solar Storm impacts for policymakers to co-creating a historical video game of St Giles' Cathedral. He works with organisations from the UN to ScotRail, including as lead for a current EPSRC project on communities and gamifying rail transport flood resilience.

Rebecca Sutton is a Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches international law courses and conducts research on international humanitarian law, law and emotions, youth peacebuilding, participatory action research, and radical pedagogy. Rebecca is a Co-Investigator of the FCDO-funded Beyond Compliance Consortium, which builds evidence on promoting restraint by armed actors. As PI of the Glasgow Knowledge Exchange-funded CEASEFIRE! Project, she is working with youth to co-design a 2D peace game prototype on ceasefire negotiation skills.

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First published: 5 November 2025