Marianne Pickles has been playing video games for as long as she can remember, and working on games-based learning and assessment projects since 2017.

 

She’s part of the small team who create Adventures in English with Cambridge, a series of immersive English language learning video games built in Minecraft.

 

She used to work as an English teacher in Germany and Spain before moving to Cambridge to create international English language exams. Now, she works on a range of innovative digital products as the Head of Assessment Development at Cambridge University Press & Assessment.