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Dr Steph Rennick

Lecturer in Digital Media (Interactive)

Communications, Media and Culture Pathfoot Building, 我要吃瓜, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Dr Steph Rennick

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I am a philosopher working at the intersection of philosophy of pop culture, metaphysics, linguistics, and game studies, with a particular interest in video games, as well as gender, accessibility, time travel, and tropes. I co-led a multi-disciplinary, cross-institutional team to develop the Video Game Dialogue Corpus, the first large-scale, openly accessible, consistently coded corpus of video game dialogue. My recent research concerns gender representation, construction and bias in video games and aims to give game makers the tools and knowledge to make informed choices about gender in their game design.

I am a Lecturer in Digital Media (Interactive Media) in Communications, Media and Culture here at the 我要吃瓜. I have previously held posts at the University of Glasgow and Cardiff University, and completed my PhD jointly between Glasgow and Macquarie University.

My research interests span various areas of philosophy (including metaphysics, philosophy of tech, intersectional feminist philosophy and philosophy of pop culture), linguistics, gender studies and game studies, and include: tropes in the narrative and mechanics of video games and other media, player experience (including immersion, optionality and autonomy), gender, disability and accessibility, video game dialogue, interaction design, representation and construction of gender and other facets of identity in games and other media, time travel, free will, and foreknowledge.

I am happy to supervise projects relating to the above; if you're unsure, feel free to get in touch at steph.rennick@stir.ac.uk. For more information on my research, see .

Outputs (19)

Book Chapter

Feminist Philosophy of Time

Rennick S (2026) Feminist Philosophy of Time. In: Emery N (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Philosophy-of-Time/Emery/p/book/9781032801315?srsltid=AfmBOoqX0IPfA7_dKHTcd6FKwOdyhrDz-zcLlppSERyqAn02rjX1WeOc

Article

Epistemic Deprivation

Newey CA & Rennick S (2025) Epistemic Deprivation. Hypatia. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2024.96

Article

Backwards Counterfactuals

Rennick S & McDonnell N (2025) Backwards Counterfactuals. Philosophical Quarterly, Art. No.: pqae149. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae149

Article

The Video Game Dialogue Corpus

Rennick S & Roberts S (2024) The Video Game Dialogue Corpus. Corpora, 19 (1). https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2024.0299

Book Chapter

Foreknowledge

Rennick S (2023) Foreknowledge. In: Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780195396577-0332

Article

Gender bias in video game dialogue

Rennick S, Clinton M, Ioannidou E, Oh L, Clooney C, T E, Healy E & Roberts SG (2023) Gender bias in video game dialogue. Royal Society Open Science, 10 (5). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221095

Website Content

The Use and Usefulness of Peer Feedback

Newey C & Rennick S (2022) The Use and Usefulness of Peer Feedback. T&L Exchange, University of Reading [Briefing] 06.12.2022. https://sites.reading.ac.uk/t-and-l-exchange/2022/12/06/the-use-and-usefulness-of-peer-feedback/

Article

Trope analysis and folk intuitions

Rennick S (2021) Trope analysis and folk intuitions. Synthese, 199 (1-2), pp. 5025-5043. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-03013-3

Article

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Rennick S (2021) Self-Fulfilling Prophecies. Philosophies, 6 (3), p. 78. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6030078

Book Review

The Routledge Companion to Free Will, edited by Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, and Neil Levy

Rennick S (2018) The Routledge Companion to Free Will, edited by Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, and Neil Levy. Review of: The Routledge Companion to Free Will, edited by Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, and Neil Levy New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. xx + 707 (9781315758206). Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96 (3), pp. 626-627. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1384847

Project Report

Improving Peer Review: A Pilot Study

Rennick S & Newey C (2017) Improving Peer Review: A Pilot Study. Cardiff University. Cardiff. https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/learning-hub/view/improving-peer-review-a-pilot-study

Book Review

Purpose in the Universe: The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism, by Tim Mulgan: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. viii + 435, ?50 (hardback).

Rennick S (2017) Purpose in the Universe: The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism, by Tim Mulgan: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. viii + 435, ?50 (hardback).. Review of: Purpose in the Universe: The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism, by Tim Mulgan Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. viii (9780198822776). Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 95 (3), pp. 615-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2016.1231697

Book Chapter

Prophetic foreknowledge in Game of Thrones

Rennick S (2016) Prophetic foreknowledge in Game of Thrones. In: Silverman EJ & Arp R (eds.) The Ultimate Game of Thrones and Philosophy: You Think or Die. Popular Culture and Philosophy, 105. Chicago: Open Court, pp. 151-158. https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Ultimate-Game-of-Thrones-and-Philosophy-by-Eric-J-Silverman-editor-Robert-Arp-editor-E-M-Dadlez-Christopher-C-Kirby-Matthew-McKeever-Jarno-Hietalahti-Kimberly-S-Engels-Danielle-Karim-Cox-Evan-Rosa-Paul-Giladi-Jason-Iuliano-Lauren-OConnell/9780812699500?currency=USD&destination=US&a_aid=usbook&data1=apz-comp&target=blank

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