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October 2025 Newsletter

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 …

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Summer 2025 newsletter

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 …

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June update

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 …

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March update

A Spring update from the PLA for you all! The daffodils are out, the hares are racing about the fields near me, and we’ve lots to share with you. Our next in person meet up is coming up soon and there aren’t many places left before we’re full, so get your place booked quickly now …

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February Update

Hi all, welcome to our next (vaguely) monthly update! A bumper one for the start of February (yeah, I know it’s technically not February until tomorrow, but I’m away for 2 weeks!) First of all, for all you fellow procrastinators out there, the deadline for submissions to the annual Playful Learning Conference is Monday 3rd …

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