Sal Humphreys

Dr Sal Humphreys works as a postdoctoral research fellow with the Creative Industries faculty of QUT and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation. She is the convenor of the Games and Law research group, a crossfaculty research initiative that explores the implications of interactive, participatory media, particularly computer games, for current legal and regulatory regimes. The group includes researchers from the QUT Law Research Centre, the Faculty of Creative Industries, the Faculty of IT, and the Creative Commons initiative; it has focused on the issues raised by user-generated content.

Dr Humphreys also works on a new media and community engagement project which examines the possibilities of strengthening community engagement and local identity through online media engagement. She completed her PhD, an ethnographic study of an online game community, in 2005, and has published articles on computer games and issues of governance, intellectual property and labour.