Scott Nicholson

Dr. Scott Nicholson (born March 27, 1971) is an American Professor of Game Design & Development at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario. He is an author, game designer, speaker and the Director of the Brantford Games Network Lab. Academic career Dr. Nicholson was the director of the Masters of the Library and Information Science program at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies from 2001 to 2015. He was also the Director of the Because Play Matters game lab and the Game Designers’ Guild of Syracuse. While at Syracuse, Dr. Nicholson won an award for his paper “Inviting the World into the Online Classroom: Teaching a Gaming in Libraries Course via YouTube” at the 2010 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference. Dr. Nicholson was a visiting professor from 2011-2012 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Comparative Media Studies and the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. While at MIT, Dr. Nicholson presented a keynote on escape rooms during the Escape Room Game Jam in partnership between MIT and Red Bull on March 28, 2015. In 2014 Dr. Nicholson moved to Canada to become program director of Wilfrid Laurier University's Game Design & Development program and director of the Brantford Games Network.