A National Observatory of Children's Play Experiences During COVID-19
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Culture, Communication and Media
Abstract
The devastating health impacts of COVID-19 have resulted in major restrictions on where, when and how children can play. Play is strongly connected to children's wellbeing and social development and is a crucial means through which children express concerns about, and responses to, the world around them. A collaboration between the UCL Institute of Education, the University of Sheffield, V&A Museum of Childhood, British Library, and Great Ormond Street Hospital, will establish a 'National Observatory of Play' to capture children's experiences of the pandemic. Via social media, national press and our collaborating organisations' networks, we will invite children, their parents and carers, to share stories, thoughts and ephemera connected to play in the pandemic by uploading text, image, sound or video files. With children as observers and reporters of their experiences, the Observatory will document indoor, outdoor and imaginary play, including digital play, from onscreen games to social media. It will illuminate our understanding of the social, material, linguistic, spatial and temporal worlds of children, throughout lockdown and beyond. With our partners, we will develop an online exhibition, a public archive, a radio documentary, and 'Play Wellbeing Toolkits' for talking and listening to children in times of anxiety. We are interdisciplinary academics, archivists and practitioners, experienced in exploring forms of contemporary and historical play, working with children, parents and carers as co-producers of research. Our findings will offer insights into the often-overlooked worlds of play and peer cultures, informing policy and practice during the pandemic and the 'new normals' beyond.
Organisations
- University College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- The British Library (Collaboration)
- Linkoping University (Collaboration)
- Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) (Collaboration)
- Victoria and Albert Museum (Collaboration)
- Great Ormond St. Hospital Cldrn Charity (Project Partner)
- British Library (Project Partner)
Publications
Bishop J
(2023)
Creativity during the Covid Lockdown
Cannon M
(2023)
Lessons from the Play Observatory: re-imagining learning through film-making and transludic practices in children's pandemic play
in Education 3-13
Cannon M
(2023)
Lessons from the Play Observatory: re-imagining learning through film-making and transludic practices in children's pandemic play
in Education 3-13
Cowan K
(2021)
Children's Digital Play during the COVID-19 Pandemic: insights from the Play Observatory
in Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
| Title | Play in the Pandemic Online Exhibition, in collaboration with the Young V & A |
| Description | This is an online exhibition with Young V & A, part of the Victoria and Albert Museum and formerly known as the Museum of Childhood. It contains a selection of submissions to the Play Observatory in the form of images, text and video compositions and is presented in an original and visually engaging way. It has text produced by the V & A curator and the project team. The aim is for wide engagement with issues around play and wellbeing aimed at non-academic beneficiaries as well as a celebration of creative and artistic outputs on play during the pandemic. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Major benefits of this work: - Exposure of the project to non-academic beneficiaries, including teachers and playworkers as well as children, parents and carers - Enhanced self esteem and pride in submissions to the Play Observatory - Enhanced collaboration between UCL and V & A on which future projects could be built - Placing play and wellbeing at the centre of the public debate on the effects of the pandemic on children - it has not only been about 'learning loss' |
| URL | http://playinthepandemic.play-obsevatory.com |
| Description | Our four main research questions were: 1) How have children been playing during the pandemic (both offline and online, analogue and digital), from the initial outbreak of the virus, throughout lockdown, and during ongoing social distancing? 2) How has the COVID-19 pandemic featured as a point of reference in play and peer culture, and what insights does this give into children's unique experiences of it? 3) What continuities and discontinuities does this play and peer culture have compared to those of the past, and between different communities? 4) How can interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural studies, folklore studies, history of childhood, media literacies, multimodality and education help us better understand the role and value of play for wellbeing during times of crisis? Our findings in non-specialist language: Our findings reveal that children and families have been resourceful in overcoming distance, loss of amenity and lack of social contact across all categories of play from organised games to imaginative storytelling, from indoor to outdoor play, on screen and offscreen. We have seen creative responses which blur the forms of play between analogue and digital into hybrid forms. We have also seen intergenerational and family play amongst siblings take on a new intensity where children have not been able to meet with friends. Above all, we have experienced the importance of listening closely to what children are telling us about their play and the insights play offers into children's unique experiences of the pandemic. In answer to the question about COVID-19 as a reference point, we have seen how the virus has inflected rhymes and stories, imaginative play,creative gaming and media-making activities, just as previous pandemics did. This underlines the value of the unique historical dimension of the project in putting past and present in dialogue with one another. We have provided a model for how historians of childhood, immersive experience designers, early childhood, media educators and multimodal researchers, can generate new knowledge by working in novel and interdisciplinary ways that foreground the views and voices of children. In the exhibition we have collaborated with the Young V & A, an internationally known museum with expertise in presenting findings for all audiences and we have made a selection of submissions which have been designed to show the breadth and range of children's response to the pandemic in their play, alongside media made by children about their experiences. We believe it communicates important information to a wide audience play in moments of crisis for wellbeing and demonstrates the resourcefulness of children and families in difficult circumstances. |
| Exploitation Route | Non academic beneficiaries can access some of the outcomes in the exhibition at http://playinthepandemic.play-observatory.com Once the DOI has been assigned and the data repository set up, which we anticipate will be in a few weeks' time, researchers will be able to access the whole dataset. It will be of use to researchers in many fields: archivists, historians of childhood, playworkers, academics, teachers as well as those who have contributed. Academic beneficiaries can learn from our research methods. We believe that our online survey collection tool was innovative in being both a social science data gathering environment and a starting point for the creation of an archive. Our publications and extensive engagement activities have helped to disseminate the work of the project to a wide, International audience with whom we continue to build links. We have, as reported in other sections of researchfish, established a link with Linköping University in Sweden and we are building a research network to work further on themes related to children's reporting of their own experiences. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://play-observatory.com |
| Description | The Play Observatory was supported by the ESRC under the UKRI COVID-19 rapid response fund and is directly linked to key remits in the original call around public health, communication and the impact of the pandemic on groups in society. Because it was rooted in everyday human experience, it was designed from the outset to be public facing. With the prevailing discourse on children in the pandemic arguably focused solely on 'learning loss' our project has set out to refocus attention onto children. We have sought to amplify their experience of the pandemic by looking at play, central as it is to their day-to-day lives. As such the Play Observatory has had a wide-ranging set of positive, non-academic impacts revolving around children's wellbeing. As an often overlooked group, we worked with children aged 0-18, parents and carers as co-producers of the research, and have created a record of children's play at a particular moment in history to which almost 300 items have been submitted online by 167 adult and child contributors. The research team, and our guest bloggers, have had 20,000 visits to the project website to March 2022 and a further 14,000 visits have occurred since the last researchfish reporting period. Our first pinned Facebook post reached 463 people with 51 engagements, with 169 followers and 150 likes currently. Regular interactions on social media reveal how our messages, images and videos are generating a hub of activity to which people from all over the world have been drawn, including media outlets (Nursery World, The Economist), parents, playworkers, teachers and professional practitioners. We have 1748 followers on Twitter with whom we still engage, as part of our dissemination beyond the funding period. Further examples of non-academic impact include our two sessions at the ESRC Festival of Social Science (FSS) in in Sheffield November 2021, attracting staff from Early Years to Secondary and families. Internationally, our work has been featured in a public facing blog in Australia through the Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. One of the key project outputs that specifically addresses a non-academic audience is our online exhibition featuring instances of play that were submitted to the Play Observatory survey. The exhibition was designed in conjunction with the Victoria and Albert Museum's 'Young V&A', formerly the Museum of Childhood. We have also worked in partnership with the play services team at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital to provide free resources and activities for families based on our findings and the exhibition. In both cases we have developed engaging and accessible materials which address a diverse audience of non-academics. This exhibition has been visited more than 3,000 times in the year following the previous impact report on researchfish. We will continue to work with the Young V & A on research and other forms of public engagement. Ultimately the main non-academic beneficiaries of our research are the children, young people and their families, who took part in the research and those who will come to know it in future through both the archival collection and the associated exhibition, along with the playworkers and other related professional groups and organisations who visit and respond to our work. We have had some input into a review of teaching and learning post pandemic, conduced by the Primary Literacy Research Collaborative. This has included written submissions to both the DFE and the Scottish Parliament featuring the implications for teaching and learning of our findings about children's activities in the pandemic, alongside other projects. Further details are in the relevant sections in researchfish. Our academic outputs have generated wide interest and commentary, in both methods and findings, and we have worked hard on engagement activities across the board, from workshops and blogposts to more formal conference presentations and academic publication. Full details are in the relevant researchfish sections. We have more planned in all of those areas, including a special issue of Global Studies of Childhood scheduled for 2024. One key output has been the formulation of an international research network to work more broadly on children's cultural production and heritage. Tangible outputs include a planned conference set for 2024 , which has received financial support in Sweden at Linköping University already, and a networking proposal (in preparation). This will see us broaden the partnership to include international colleagues who have been inspired by the Play Observatory methods and findings. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Education,Healthcare,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |
| Description | Influenced training for early years settings |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Membership of Primary Literacy Research Collaborative: Report on Literacy Teaching Post Pandemic |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://ukla.org/ukla_resources/primary-literacy-research-collaborative/ |
| Description | Teaching and workshop on data collection methods relating to media and play projects |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The session opened up the audience to the potential of participatory research methods with children in their own spheres of work. It drew on planned activities in the Play Observatory and took place post award. |
| Description | Teaching on Digital Literacies, Culture and Education MA (University of Sheffield) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Teaching on MA Multimodal Communication (UCL IOE) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Teaching on Primary PGCE (UCL IOE) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Children's Cultural Heritage: Conference and Research Network proposal |
| Organisation | Linkoping University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The partnership has embarked on preparation for a conference in 2024 in London at UCL. This will follow on from work in the Play Observatory and in the previous Playing The Archive project and will connect directly to work being carried out in the Department of Child Studies at Linköping University. It will lead to a wider research network and future proposals and publications. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Linköping University has already funded a research network meeting (March 2023) with more planned and a network proposal being generated, and a funded seminar presentation (reported in the engagement section). |
| Impact | Linköping University has already funded a research network meeting (March 2023) with more planned and a network proposal being generated, and a funded seminar presentation (reported in the engagement section). |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital Play Services |
| Organisation | Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| PI Contribution | From the team, our contributions were to meetings with the play services team about the contributions being made to our Play Observatory. We met on several occasions but there were changes to personnel and the situation in which the hospital found itself in the pandemic was not conducive to regular close working; they were dealing with emergency situations. We did, however, manage to complete stated outcomes (see below). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The GOSH play services team contributed some ideas towards the production of our activity sheets which were downloadable resources from the exhibition site. |
| Impact | Actiovity sheets which are downloadable as a PDF from our site detailing examples of play activities which can be carried out in lockdown and related situations. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Partnership with Victoria and Albert Museum: Young V & A |
| Organisation | Victoria and Albert Museum |
| Department | V&A Museum of Childhood |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This partnership was associated with the creation and completion of the online exhibition. The research team contributed: - their knowledge of the items submitted to the project - their knowledge of the participants; - their expertise in permissions and consents (which were additional to those already associated with taking part in the Play Observatory); - their coding expertise for the web interface (UCL CASA, Dr Valerio Signorelli) - their time for proofing content created - their time for exploring the interface and the site before it went live - the contacts for the design of the exhibition: Episod Studio |
| Collaborator Contribution | During the second half of the project, as costed into the proposal, the Victoria and Albert Museum provided curatorial support for creating an online exhibition from a subset of the data collected in the project. The name changed from the Museum of Childhood to the Young V & A at this time and there were some organisational changes, and changes to personnel, necessitating a slightly later start and resulting in us asking for a 2 month no cost extension to March 31st (this was granted by the ESRC). The V & A contributed: -their expertise in exhibition curation -the services of an expert online exhibition producer for 6 months -the illustrator for part of the artwork used -sub-contracting for Episod Studios, the exhibition experience designers -images of artefacts from the V & A collections with relevance and resonance with our own submissions |
| Impact | The online exhibition from our project at https://playinthepandemic.play-observatory.com/ is the main output. As a result of this we are actively discussing future collaborations with the Young V & A. Disciplines: Soclai sciences History Archives Museums and Galleries curation Media Software and web design Sound design |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Partnership with the Sound Archive at the British Library |
| Organisation | The British Library |
| Department | Archives and Manuscripts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The team has contributed discussions about deposits of some material collected in the Play Observatory into the audiovisual archive at the British Library. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The British Library sound archive director Jonnie Robinson is in discussion with us about how to manage deposits into the British Library archive at the close of the project. |
| Impact | A commitment to the deposit of some of the materials into the British Library. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Partnership with the Sound Archive at the British Library |
| Organisation | The British Library |
| Department | Archives and Manuscripts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The team has contributed discussions about deposits of some material collected in the Play Observatory into the audiovisual archive at the British Library. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The British Library sound archive director Jonnie Robinson is in discussion with us about how to manage deposits into the British Library archive at the close of the project. |
| Impact | A commitment to the deposit of some of the materials into the British Library. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | 'It's just things happening over time' - What can we learn from the Play Observatory? Blogpost by John Potter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited blogpost for the 'International Perspectives' section of the website of the Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, written in July 2022. Discussion wa sparked online afterwards and the post had an international reach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.digitalchild.org.au/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-the-play-observatory/ |
| Description | 'Play in the Pandemic' guest post for the PanMeMic Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited guest blog post reflecting on children's changing play and communication in the context of covid-19 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://panmemic.hypotheses.org/683 |
| Description | 'Research for the Real World' UCL IOE Podcast episode - Children as Co-Researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited to feature on the UCL IOE podcast, discussing prior research in an accessible and informal format aimed at highlighting findings to a broad audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2020/sep/children-co-researchers-theres-more-play-here-rftrw-s04e05 |
| Description | 'What is free play and why does it matter?' Guest blog post for 5Rights Digital Futures Commission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited guest blog post to describe publication 'A Panorama of Play' ahead of the 5Rights Digital Futures Commission online launch |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/blog/what-is-free-play-and-why-does-it-matter/ |
| Description | 5Rights Foundation - Digital Futures Commission Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to be part of an expert panel discussing digital play at the online launch of this commission |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BBC Radio 4 Documentary ('The Green Lady in the Toilets') |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Radio broadcast coordinated by producer Claire Crofton for the BBC, involving interviews about Playing the Archive project findings and insights into children's play and peer cultures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mj1m |
| Description | Blogpost: Playtimes, Archives and nowa Play Observatory: How we got here! |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Playtimes, Archives and nowa Play Observatory: How we got here! This post reviewed how the Play Observatory started and was written for the website launch at the beginning of March 2021. The audience is expected to grow as word spreads about the launch of the website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.play-observatory.com/blog/playtimes-archives-and-now |
| Description | Bremen-Groningen Multimodality Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation to this online workshop series, as part of a panel on children and literature. Papers followed by questions and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Children's Cultural Heritage Seminar at the UCL IOE - Contribution by John Potter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a seminar organised at the UCL IOE and bringing together academics from Trondheim University in Norway, Linköping University in Sweden and Oxford University. John Potter presented the work of the Play Observatory in the context of a wider discussion about children's cultural heritage. The session has sparked plans for future collaboration which have already seen the award of a visiting scholarship for a Linköping staff member to come to London in the summer of 2023. There were connections made to the findings of the previous Playing the Archive project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Corona Pirates and COVE-IT - 'A Festival of Social Science at Sheffield University' a workshop event for children and families |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This was one of two events by the Sheffield team as part of 'A Festival of Social Science at Sheffield University' which allowed for us to further publicise the Play Observatory and on this occasion engage with children and families. It was organised and run by Yinka Olusoga, Julia Bishop and Cath Bannister. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/corona-pirates-and-coveit-public-session |
| Description | Corona Pirates and COVE-IT event for teachers and practitioners 'Understanding Society: A Festival of Social Science at Sheffield University' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This was one of two events by the Sheffield team as part of 'A Festival of Social Science at Sheffield University' which allowed for us to further publicise the Play Observatory and on this occasion engage with teachers and related professionals. It was organised and run by Yinka Olusoga, Julia Bishop and Cath Bannister. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/corona-pirates-and-coveit-teacher-session |
| Description | Culture Communication and Media Research Jamboree 2022: Presentation by John Potter and Michelle Cannon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a presentation at an internal departmental event at which Michelle Cannon and John Potter presented their work on media production in the Play Observatory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Digitising Social Practices Conference, Odense |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation as part of a panel on the topic of 'Visualising the Virus', generating insights into visual research methods during covid-19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Folklore Society Event: Creativity during the Covid lockdown: Life and Renewal During the Pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a presentation which put anthropology and folklore studies in conversation with one another online. team members Yinka Olusoga, Julia Bishop and Cath Bannister all took part and drummed up interdisciplinary support for the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://folklore-society.com/event/creativity-during-the-covid-lockdown-life-and-renewal-during-the-... |
| Description | Group talk to Birmingham Pandemic Perspectives Research Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk to the multi-disciplinary Birmingham Pandemic Perspectives Research Network which involved the whole team and gave exposure for our work to a different audience, helping us to shape how we were communicating and conceptualising the project to others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8LBA4SZ2rk&t=2s |
| Description | IOE Research in the Real World Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a podcast recorded for the Research in the Real World series at the UCL Institute of Education. John Potter, PI, discussed the project as part of the interview in an episode on 'the ways we play - digital communication and creativity' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2021/may/ways-we-play-digital-communication-and-creativity-rftrw-s09e... |
| Description | Inclusion and Education - University of Leeds Podcast series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Yinka Olusoga and John Potter took part in a podcast at the invitation of Prof Michalis Kontopodis on 'Children's Play During Covid-19' conveying initial impressions from submissions to the survey and using the opportunity to publicise the Play Observatory further to a related audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://anchor.fm/inclusion-eduleeds/episodes/Childrens-Play-during-COVID19-Yinka-Olusoga--John-Pott... |
| Description | Interview and feature in the Economist: Covid-19 has given children new words and ideas to play with |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This piece in the Economist in Fenruary 2022 features team members talking about the project and was a way to reach a wide audience of non-academic beneficiaries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/02/04/covid-19-has-given-children-new-words-and-ideas-to-play... |
| Description | Interview with Kate Cowan for Nursery World feature: Pandemic Play |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kate Cowan took part in an interview with Nursery World for a feature on pandemic play which stimulated further interest in the project and how to contribute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/features/article/eyfs-best-practice-all-about-pandemic-play |
| Description | Invited presentation and panel discussion for British Educational Research Association's 'Playful Learning and Curriculum' event (online) - Monday 13th March 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 78 people signed up online for this virtual event aimed to bring together leading experts and practitioners in the field of play, to focus on finding innovative ways to make high quality playful learning a reality for all. Yinka Olusoga presented a paper entitled 'I don't want to go back to normal, I want to go back to better': Insights from the Play Observatory and took part in 30 minutes of panel discussion and Q&A. Attendees reported an increased awareness of ways in which children's play involved a hybridity and fluidity between the offline and the digital, and the role of intra and inter generational co-construction of play environments and extended creative projects. They also reported being more aware of the potential to re-think and build on children's digital and media literacies in a co-constructed approach to curriculum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bera.ac.uk/event/playful-learning-and-curriculum-2023 |
| Description | Kate Cowan Keynote: Play 2021 Birmingham University online conference, July 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Kate Cowan gave a well received keynote address at the Play 2021 online conference at Birmingham University in July 2021. This helped to raise the profile of the project with academics and playworkers, nationally and internationally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.playfulplanet.org.uk/blog/play-observer-kate-cowan-completes-conference-line-up |
| Description | Keynote at Finnish Society of Childhood Conference: Play, performance and palimpsest in children's lived experience in the digital age, including in the time of a global pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | John Potter, PI gave a keynote talk to the Finnish Childhood Society Conference in 2021 online and referred to the Play Observatory in his talk substantially, increasing reach and range of the project. This was originally scheduled for 2020 before the Play Observatory started and was altered to include the pandemic play content from our project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://events.tuni.fi/childhood-2020/keynotes |
| Description | Media Education Summit 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Kate Cowan, Co-I and John Potter, PI gave a presentation to the Media Education Summit on play which included multiple references to the Play Observatory and in invitation to contribute |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/events/event/1456/media-education-summit-2021 |
| Description | National Literacy Trust Conference - Panel on play and literacy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invitation to speak on a panel at the National Literacy Trust online conference, aimed at supporting teachers returning to school after the covid-19 lockdowns. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Nursery World feature about project survey opening - Interview with Kate Cowan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This was a feature article in Nursery World which helped raise awareness of the survey opening. The team member interviewed was Co-I, Kate Cowan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/article/academics-to-create-record-of-children-s-play-during-the... |
| Description | Online presentation and film screening at the Media Education Summit 2023, Vancouver by Michelle Cannon and John Potter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The talk took place in early March 2023 at the Media Education Summit in Vancouver, pre-recorded remotely by John Potter and Michelle Cannon from the Play Observatory team and Saskia Van Roomen from the London Film School Outreach Programme. It concerned the media in the Play Observatory, either submitted directly or made as part of the project's media production workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/centre-excellence-media-practice/global-me... |
| Description | Online seminar for 'More than Robots' - John Potter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited online seminar as part of the 'More than Robots' series by the founder of Parentzone in the UK, Cliff Manning. The session took place live and John Potter outlined the work and main findings of the Play Observatory and took part in an online debate about the nature of play and creativity in the digital age, as a result of the findings of the Play Observatory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://morethanrobots.substack.com/p/more-than-robots-54-june-2022-22-06-05 |
| Description | Open University Seminar/Conversation event on Children aged 0 - 11 and Covid-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Team members John Potter, Kate Cowan, Yinka Olusoga, Michelle Cannon attended an online conversation event aimed at knowledge exchange among practitioners and researchers on 'Children aged 0 - 11 and Covid-19'. It was used as an opportunity to raise the profile of the Play Observatory and exchange ideas on participation and research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ordo.open.ac.uk/collections/Children_aged_0-11_and_Covid-19_A_conversation_event_CCCE21_/554... |
| Description | Play Observatory International Online Symposium: Practices, activities, objects, texts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was our main symposium for the project which took place online over two days in January 2022. We had almost 300 registrations and the event was attended by upwards of 100 people on both days. We worked across different time zones, with a late start on day 1 to accommodate international speakers in the US and an early start the following day for Australian projects. We had talks from fellow academics and professionals working pandemic play interspersed with talks on our won findings. We had discussants on both days. Recordings are being edited and will be placed online for the public to view. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.play-observatory.com/blog/pandemic-play-experiences-practices--activities--objects--text... |
| Description | Play Observatory Twitter Feed |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Our main Social Media channel has been Twitter and the main team member responsible for running it has been Kate Cowan, Co-I with occasional input from John Potter, PI. The account has 1500 followers and rising and has been responsible for publicity, dissemination and engagement throughout the project, from the beginning. It has been an invaluable tool for communicating with academic beneficiaries and non-academic beneficiaries alike. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | http://twitter.com/PlayObservatory |
| Description | Play Observatory main website and blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | For the duration of the project we have hosted a website to disseminate findings and to encourage discussion and knowledge exchange. There are downloadable resources, there is a lively blog populated by writing from team members and guests including playworkers, artists, children, parents and carers and more. Our page has been visited more than 20,000 times and statistics show that we receive around 100 visits per day. We are connected to our Twitter feed as well through the main portal. The domain name is owned by us and the site is hosted on our own server. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | http://www.play-observatory.com |
| Description | Podcast for Columbia Teachers College Digital Futures Institute, New York, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Kate Cowan, Co-I, and John Potter, PI were interviewed by Haeny Yoon and Nathan Holbert from the Digital Futures Institute in a playful and, at times, non-academic way. The podcast allowed us to publicise the work and give us an international reach for the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfuturesinstitute/podcasts/pop-and-play/episodes/episode-3-colleag... |
| Description | Podcast for IOE 120: Shaping Education and Society through Culture - John Potter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | John Potter from the Play Observatory team discussed the project, its methods and findings in a podcast recorded as part of the 120th anniversary of the IOE, alongside other members of the Department of Culture, Communication and Media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.digitalchild.org.au/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-the-play-observatory/ |
| Description | Podcast on changes to play in the pandemic for BERA December 2021 - Yinka Olusoga and Kate Cowan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A podcast for the British Educational Research Association (BERA) in which Yinka Olusoga and Kate Cowan talk on changes to play in the pandemic, December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bera.ac.uk/media/how-childrens-play-has-adapted-over-the-pandemic-yinka-olusoga-and-kate... |
| Description | Podcast- Episode 37 of UCL Minds: Coronavirus the Whole Story |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This was my participation in a podcast in the UCL Minds Series Episode 37 on the impact on play of the virus, alongside issues of homeschooling. I used it to explain the Play Observatory project to a wider audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus |
| Description | Presentation and workshop for BERA International Conference, Liverpool University by Yinka Olusoga and John Potter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Yinka Olusoga and John Potter ran a workshop at the BERA International Conference in September 2022 which explored the data collection and interpretation in the Play Observatory. Working with the datasets with an audience of academics and doctoral students provoked good discussion and participation by the audience members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bera.ac.uk/conference/bera-conference-2022/programme/programme-at-a-glance |
| Description | Presentation at UKLA International Conference, July 2022 in Birmingham by Yinka Olusoga, John Potter and Michelle Cannon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk given by three members of the Play Observatory team at the UKLA International Conference in Birmingham. It was part of a session on lessons learned from the Play Observatory which could have significant impact on future curriculum design. The project is linked to the Primary Literacy Research Collaborative which is an organisation looking at primary literacy teaching in the wake of the pandemic which brings together national organisations at the core of literacy teaching in the UK, such as UKLA, NATE and others. It also led to the writing of a research paper for Education 3 - 13. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukla.org/event/international-conference-2022/ |
| Description | Presentation by Catherine Bannister and Yinka Olusoga to RE:22 Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, June 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Catherine Bannister and Yinka Olusoga entitled '"First we had a disco": children re/imagining and re/creating celebratory customs in virtual spaces during COVID-19' at the RE:22 conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation by John Potter to the Child in the City World Conference, Dublin, 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by John Potter entitled 'Children's hybrid playworlds during COVID-19: onscreen/offscreen, in the home and outside the home' as part of a panel dedicated to the Play Observatory project and its findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation by Julia Bishop and Catherine Bannister to the Child in the City World Conference, Dublin, 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Play Observatory research team Julia Bishop and Catherine Bannister entitled 'Adventures in Lockdown: Found spaces, environmental affordances and urban childhoods in pandemic times', as part of a panel devoted to the Play Observatory project as part of the conference. It illustrated the local and 'found' spaces of children's play during the Covid-19 pandemic, drawing on examples contributed to the Play Observatory, and highlighted children's perceptions of these and how they may differ from those of adults. The paper elicited lively discussion and further examples and experiences from those in the room, from their personal and professional viewpoints as playworkers, landscape architects and other practitioners and academics with an interest in children's xperience of life in cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.childinthecity.org/2022-conference/download-brochure/ |
| Description | Presentation by Julia Bishop to Childhoods and Youth research cluster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Julia Bishop on 'How to Play Touch Chase in Times of Social Distancing: A Case Study of "Coronavirus Tag"' to University of Sheffield School of Education research cluster on Childhoods and Youth seminar series, concerning children's pandemic-inflected chase games. There was lively interest in the games, international examples and the methods used for the study in the discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation by Julia Bishop to the Folklore Society/Royal Anthropological Institute conference, Oct 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Julia Bishop entitled 'Playground Games in Pandemic Times: Continuity and Creativity in 'Coronavirus Tig', presented at the 6th Annual FLS-RAI Joint Seminar on Creativity during the Covid lockdown: Life and Renewal During the Pandemic, concerning pandemic-reference chase games played by children and researching these drawing Play observatory data supplemented by Twitter posts. The paper drew lively discussion and more examples. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation by Yinka Olusoga to the Child in the City World Conference, Dublin, 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Yinka Olusoga entitled '"I danced on the road to the Macarena song which felt a bit naughty": Children's inter/intra-generational connection and playful participation during the COVID-19 pandemic' as part of a panel devoted to the Play Observatory project and its findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation by Yinka Olusoga, Catherine Bannister and Julia Bishop to RE:22 Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Play Observatory team members Yinka Olusoga, Catherine Bannister and Julia Bishop, entitled 'Re/source/fulness: Applying a posthuman lens to children's perspectives on pandemic play experiences' at the RE:22 conference in Reykjavik, Iceland (delivered remotely), to an international audience of folklorists and ethnologists, as part of a panel on 'Rethinking Crisis: Children's Perspectives'.The paper examined examples of children's play and leisure experiences in the pandemic contributed to the Play Observatory and attempted to view them through a post-humanist lens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ethnofolk.org/programme#11635 |
| Description | Presentation to Australian Centre of excellence for the digital child QUT Brisbane - John Potter and Kate Cowan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | John Potter and Kate Cowan took part in a presentation and debate with members of the Australian Centre of excellence for the digital child at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. The presentation stimulated a lot of interest in the project and ensured that momentum was maintained. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.digitalchild.org.au/event/the-play-observatory-researching-and-theorising-childrens-live... |
| Description | Seminar at Trondheim University given by John Potter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | John Potter presented an invited seminar about the work of the Play Observatory in Trondheim in June 2022. The main interest was from the methodological standpoint and the main audience was postgraduate students and their supervisors. The session was attended by approximately 15 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Seminar for Birmingham University Childhood Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk by John to a group of interdisciplinary students from Birmingham University Childhood Network with potentially wider reach in terms of stimulating interest in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/ias/CCN-UoB/Children-and-Childhood-Network.aspx |
| Description | Seminar for the Child Studies Department (TEMAB) at Linköping University by John Potter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | John Potter presented the work of the Play Observatory, and the earlier project, Playing the Archive, to researchers, students and academics at Linköping University in Sweden on 07-03-2023. There was much discussion of the projects, their innovative methods and outcomes. There was follow up from the department and from the visiting scholar, Prof Pål Aarsand from Norway. The work has already led to collaboration on a conference and research proposal and the formation of a research network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/tema/temab |
| Description | Symposium for BERA 2021 organised by Yinka Olusoga |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Olusoga organised a symposium which the team presented t BERA 2021 online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bera.ac.uk/conference/bera-conference-2021 |
| Description | Talk at LEGO Creative Design Labs in London by the Play Observatory Team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Play Observatory Team were invited to Lego Creative Design Labs in London in May 2022 to discuss our approach to researching Pandemic Play, our findings and any potential spin outs into industry in terms of design ideas which might influence future Lego developments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk for EARLI SIG in memory of David Whitebread - John Potter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was an online talk by John Potter arranged by postdoctoral researchers in Chile, as part of an EARLI (European Association of Researchers in Learning and Instruction) tribute to the work of Play Theorist, David Whitebread. It took place in June 2022. It generated interest in the methods used in the Play Observatory for data collection and interpretation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talks and presentations by team members to the Folklore Society Conference May 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Team members: Julia Bishop, Cath Bannister, Yinka Olusoga, John Potter, Kate Cowan gave talks to the Folklore Society conference, increasing the project reach |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://folklore-society.com/event/folklore-learning-and-literacies-conference |
| Description | The Play Observatory Facebook Page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is the Facebook page for the Play Observatory which complements our main social media outlet, @PlayOservatory on Twitter, and our website/blog at play-observatory.com It allows ius to reach people who regularly engage with Facebook such as groups and organisations as well as parents and pother professionals. Our posts reach approximately 500 people each time...(as opposed to the 1500 followers we have on Twitter (see Twitter entry) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/PlayObservatory |
| Description | UKLA Everyday Literacies Seminar September 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was an online seminar about eh work of the Play Observatory at the Invitation of the Everyday Literacies SIG of the UKLA. There was a good level of discussion afterwards which further enhanced interest in the Play Observatory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukla.org/sigs-networks/everyday-literacies-sig/ |
| Description | United Kingdom Literacy Association International Conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a conference presentation given by John Potter, PI, on children's talk in play which referenced the Play Observatory's work in order to publicise it further |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukla.org/news/view-our-2021-ukla-international-conference-brochure |