Torill was a member of the board for Norsk Tipping 2011-2015, she served on the board of DiGRA, Digital Games Researchers Association from 2006 – 2010, and she was a founding member of the journal Gamestudies. She is active in several of the internet research communities, was program chair for Association of Internet Research’s conference IR 11.0 in Stockholm 2010, DiGRA 2018 in Torino. She wrote Perceiving Play: the Art and Study of Computer Games, a book on games research and the development of the field, published in 2009, and was main editor of the anthology The Dark Side of Gameplay: Controversial Issues in Playful Environments published in 2015. Transgressive, provocative and controversial aesthetics and uses of games is her current research focus.