Has everyone melted yet in this extreme UK summer? No? Then we’ve got a newsletter for you! We’ve recently had our amazing annual conference in Brighton (at the University of Sussex), you can get a tiny taste of it in our playful conference report! Next year we’ll be in Manchester (Manchester Metropolitan University) on 7th …
Welcome to the June 2026 PLA roundup! Last week we had one of our regular in-person meetups, thank you to Northumbria Uni and RE:PLAY for hosting us! We had talks, workshops and activities from a wide range of people, hearing about RE:PLAY, a mentoring card card game, playful and compassionate communication, Theatre and neurodiverse communication, …
Hello everyone and a belated Happy New Year for 2026! The woods are damp and mysterious this time of year, but come into the woods with us when they are bright full of life this summer! The PLA annual conference returns 1st to 3rd July and our call for sessions is about to close, you’ve …
It’s nearly Christmas, we hope everyone has the opportunity to take a break, play, and refresh ready for a new year ahead! First of all, a reminder that the Playful Learning Conference (1st-3rd July, 2026) is open for submissions. Get those ideas submitted by the 2nd Feb! Theme this year is “into the woods”, just …
Articles for the Journal of Play in Adulthood have been coming in thick and fast recently, please let us know if you’d be willing to peer review for the journal! We’ve also got Rosie Jones and Andy Walsh editing a special issue on Playful Leadership: Playful attitudes, approaches and activities in leadership and management. Papers due …
The schools are going back, the new uni term is just around the corner, this winter squash is ripe from my allotment, the nights are slowly starting to close in, it must be time for another newsletter? Our friends in Denmark, the Network for Practice-Based Research in Play and Playful, have an event coming up …
The latest heatwave has broken in the UK, but still lots of hot Playful Learning news for you lovely people wherever you are and whatever the weather. We’re still giddy from another successful Playful Learning Conference in Brighton, we’ve little write up and links to the programme for you separate to this! The Journal of …
Lots of stuff happening with the journal at the moment! We have 2 calls for papers for special issues, as well as our always open call (2025 conference presenters, why not write something up?), plus lots of recent articles published. Liz Cable and Laura Mitchell are guest editing a special issue on Table-top Games for …
Hello all, and welcome to our June update! We were at Strathclyde last week for one of our community meetings and lots of lovely things went on, from thinking about Psychological Safety to Lego Serious Play – you can get a flavour of them from the Padlet, or from Lynn Pilkington’s LinkedIn post. We try …
