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 Learning: Designing and using tabletop games in learning, teaching & assessment. Get your thinking hats on and get your papers submitted to this by 1st October please! https://www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk/news/161/ (Table-top games include any kind of analogue games played inside the classroom and around a table; including boardgames, card-games, escape games, investigative games, role-playing games, and those with some digital elements creating hybrid games for classroom play.)

Just announced, Rosie Jones and Andy Walsh will be editing a special issue on Playful Leadership: Playful attitudes, approaches and activities in leadership and management. Papers due for this one by 1st December please! https://www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk/news/162/ (By leadership, we mean both formal or informal leadership experiences or positions.)

Papers for both of these calls (or any other articles you want to submit) should go through our normal submissions page where they will be subject to peer review. Just note if they are for one of the special issues so we can send them in the direction of the correct (guest) editors.

We’ve had five articles published in the latest open issue (remember, we’re always open for submissions to that!), with more working their way through the system. Already over 300 downloads of articles from this issue (and way more than that reading them online), our articles are always free to read (and publish), so why not join them and read about things as eclectic and joyful as exploring French through musical theatre, building a playful learning community, rap battles, Plork!, or a play program to improve wellbeing.