معرفی
Sarah Lynne Bowman serves as Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University's Department of Game Design on Campus Gotland, maintaining active contact through sarah.bowman@speldesign.uu.se and Campus Gotland's Visby facilities. Her academic profile centers on the transformative applications of role-playing games across educational, therapeutic, and interdisciplinary contexts.
Bowman's research investigates how role-playing systems facilitate psychological growth, community building, and identity exploration, with particular emphasis on shadow work through personal horror games, liminal intimacy in larp, and the didactic potential of RPGs in academic settings. Her scholarship bridges Jungian psychology, counseling theory, and human-computer interaction to analyze immersive experiences within role-playing communities.
Analysis of Bowman's 2024-2025 publications reveals a concentrated focus on designing role-playing frameworks for transformative outcomes, including interdisciplinary research collaborations, educational larp scenarios, and therapeutic applications. Key trends show increasing methodological sophistication in synthesizing larp with HCI research while exploring the psychological mechanisms of narrative engagement, bleed phenomena, and identity transformation through structured role-play.
