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Nick Ballou
Video Games & Motivational Psychology PhD Student
Nick Ballou is a first-year PhD student at the CDT in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) with a research focus on need satisfaction, dysregulated gaming, autonomy support, and well-being.
His areas of interest also include loot boxes and toxicity in games, aiming to enhance the understanding of games' effects on players through robust, reproducible science.
Nick holds a PhD in Games User Research from Queen Mary University of London, an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, and a B.S. in Linguistics Magna Cum Laude from Tulane University.
He has previously worked as an English Teacher at Baptist Rainbow Primary School, a Research Assistant at the University of Cambridge, an Au Pair for the Scholik Family, and a Psycholinguistics/Computational Linguistics Research Intern at the Hunter College Language Acquisition Research Center.
