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January 2026 Newsletter / Update
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 …
December newsletter / update
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 …
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 …
September ’25 Newsletter
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 …
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 …
Playful Learning Conference 2025
Last week’s Playful Learning Conference in Brighton was three days of playful people coming together to think, play and create. The full programme is still available (it will be archived off later in the year) for you to remind yourself of the range of sessions. And here are some pics to give you a flavour! …
Journal summer 2025 update
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 …
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 …
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 …