📢 New publication from our team! 🎮 Children's contextualised digital play drivers and subjective well-being Our latest journal article has just been published and can be read Open Access now via New Media and Society 🎉 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #DigitalPlay #DigitalChildhoods

CFP: "Children & young people's agency: intersectional & subalternate perspectives on resistances & futurities across time & spaces of conflict." For a special issue of the International Social Science Journal. Abstracts are due by 6 March, 2026. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Japanese artist Nana Akua photographed her grandmother's embroidery work - Temari, a folk art meaning ‘hand ball’ given as special gifts #WomensArt

Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001? Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain! Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

We held our annual Christmas party @Fulham Palace House & Garden this week. We sang, we danced, we ate food, we dressed up for the occasion. We loved spending time together, talking, giggling, reminiscing & living in the moment. Wishing you a restful Christmas break & excited for activities in 2026

We're calling all early years practitioners, researchers and students to submit their research proposals for presentation at the 16th annual BECERA Conference. The call for papers deadline is 12pm, Monday 15th December 2025. buff.ly/2QOJZRW #BECERA2025 #BECERA

Calling all UWL staff, students and invited guests - come to the CE student social space Tues 28 Oct and step back in time with the Reminiscence Room exhibition. This 1960s Caribbean living room's part of an event for older people living with dementia + care partners & we're opening to you for a day

We're delighted to interview our members, Aoife Daly, Pernilla Leviner, and Rebecca Thorburn Stern, about their edited collection - Treated Like a Child: Age Discrimination and Children's Rights: www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...

Amazing 3 days @ #35AEC with @giam-uwl.bsky.social colleagues. @shabanaroscoe.bsky.social shared findings from our evidence review which were co-produced together w/ people living w/ dementia, family members & care partners @alzheimereurope.bsky.social @drdeborahe.bsky.social @wcebc.bsky.social

That's a wrap! Two successful events, co-producing higher-level findings for our systematic review - with people living with dementia, family members & care partners @shabanaroscoe.bsky.social @drdeborahe.bsky.social @giam-uwl.bsky.social @cardiffuni.bsky.social @wcebc.bsky.social

'The jump' quilt by Spanish quilter and textile artist Cristina Arcenegui Bono based on an original illustration by Ukrainian artist Sveta Dorosheva #womensart #Fridayfeeling

Excellent 1st day at the 2025 International Child and Family Conference. Themes ranged from children's rights, migration, surrogacy & blended families to child labour, child development & children's use of time. Looking forward to more inspirational sessions tomorrow! @icfconference.bsky.social

"Breathe it in" by Sarah Jane Brown, contemporary Welsh land and seascape painter #WomensArt

Last month, we collaborated with local charities to celebrate African heritage through the eyes of the elderly in Ealing. There were fun group chair exercises, food and drink, arts and crafts, henna, knitting, table-top games, and drumming & dance! @giam-uwl.bsky.social

“Everybody from the beginning seemed quite joyful, quite happy. We had an opportunity to talk to people we hadn’t met before.” Another joyous and successful ACE Study celebration with our local partners! @giam-uwl.bsky.social

‘What does it mean to be alive?’ This question came from a child and inspired a story and the animation film. #Marandon #HåkonHoffart #KINDknow #BARNkunne youtu.be/PlEgisPFVi4?...

NEW: Sure Start generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education, health, absences, and SEND. Every £1 of up-front spending on Sure Start could generate around £2 in total benefits over the long run. THREAD on our new ‪@nuffieldfoundation.org‬-funded report: [1/11]

Do you or anybody you know have #dyscalculia? Researchers from @ucl-ioe-cie.bsky.social are recruiting children, young people and adults with dyscalculia in the UK to take part in an online study. Sign up here to take part! lnkd.in/ehPdUS_E #dyscalculia #livedexperiences

Educators are observing significant fatigue, hunger, inadequate physical growth, and poor personal care among students affected by poverty in the classroom. Read more: buff.ly/ND5kgHS #ChildPoverty

University access matters - but it’s often out of reach for people seeking sanctuary. Our new video and comic explain the barriers, and show how universities can be part of the solution. Watch here: bit.ly/44IWoL1 #HigherEducation

🔔 Hybrid seminar and book launch (24 June): 'Children's Agency in the National Curriculum: The Promise of Structured Freedom'. Join the speakers at this event to discuss how children's voices and choices shape their learning. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

📣 Calling all Early Years settings! 👶 CREC are running a survey to learn where families find Early Years activities in their area. If they fill out the survey, they can nominate YOU to win fantastic equipment vouchers from Cosy! Find out more: buff.ly/GL6zeC7 @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Also presenting at the 'Forging New Connections' event was ACE Study's Principal Investigator Dr Shadreck Mwale - talking about previous events held in collaboration with local community partners + explaining why the research is important and timely #dementia #alzheimers #African #Caribbean #London

7 days left to register for the International Child and Family Conference on June 17-19 @uob-policystudies.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. We are expecting about 200 participants from all over the world🌍. Register here: cfrc.bristol.ac.uk/cfrc-confere...

The ACE Study team thoroughly enjoyed the Geller Insitute of Ageing and Memory's 'Forging New Connections' event - presenting past and ongoing research projects and building new collaborations with the local West London community #dementia #WestLondon #UniversityofWestLondon #community #Ealing

Ruth Miller, artist who creates hand-embroidered portraits from her studio on the Mississippi Gulf Coast #womensart

Great to talk to BBC Radio 4 live this lunchtime about #ingamespending and #lootboxes, talking about #digital #childhoods and #education research www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... - listen from 7 minutes into the show... @lborouniversity.bsky.social @lboropr.bsky.social

“The nebulous and esoteric nature of defining play as a concept can be a challenge but it is essential that we do so, because it is through play that children construct a sense of meaning about the world around them.”

UK artist Clare Leighton, Toulon Washerwomen, 1925, wood engraving #womensart

Hello Bluesky! 👋 Welcome to The ACE Study, funded by @nihr.bsky.social Between 2025-2027, we’re hearing the experiences of African & Caribbean people – who are experiencing memory problems – of seeking support, and observing existing care provision Find out more 👇 www.uwl.ac.uk/research/res...

Thanks to my co-author @joalbinclark.bsky.social (always a pleasure) and to editors @aaronearlyyears.bsky.social @ruthswailes.bsky.social @philippathompson.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute to A Manifesto for Early Childhood. ‘This hopeful book looks forward to what could be possible’.

So pleased my abstract has been accepted for presentation at #BERA2025: Tactics, strategies, and motivations behind endeavours: four- to five-year-olds’ agential navigations of an English reception class’s rules during self-initiated play @beranews.bsky.social

Applications for this PhD scholarship close on Friday!

Helped save a dog this morning that ran away from her owner. After fifteen minutes of dog wrangling outside my flat a woman runs up on the verge of tears shouting ‘QUICHE! QUICHE LORAINE! THERE YOU ARE!’ The dog’s name was Quiche Loraine. She was screaming out the dog’s name in the park for ages

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📣Doughty Street Chambers Children’s Rights Group Annual Children’s Rights Lecture 2024 |Thursday 13 March 2025, 17.30 – 19:00 📣 The lecture will be delivered by @sonialivingstone.bsky.social, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the event will be chaired by @aoifenolan.bsky.social

...providing funding for 0.5 WTE to support you to work half your time on research impact and translating high quality research evidence into practice. bit.ly/4ingBtc

Interested in research but struggling to find the time to fit things in around your busy workday? Apply for one of our Knowledge Mobilisation Fellows posts...

Delighted to see this toolbox from the amazing RITEC project @fionascott.bsky.social has been launched to support game design professionals creating digital play experiences for children! What a great project to have been a part of! www.sheffield.ac.uk/social-scien...

What was it like becoming a parent for the first time during a global pandemic? Read our findings, based on over 300 individual accounts, open access in BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth doi.org/10.1186/s128... #parenting #pandemic #digitalliteracies

🗓️ Happening next week: Join this book launch with @alicebradbury.bsky.social and Sharon Vince to celebrate the publication of 'Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries: The Education Sector’s Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis'. For more info and to register: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

NEW study from @uniofbathipr.bsky.social explores the lived experiences of childcare for parents on Universal Credit. Good to see the report support our call for an early years workforce strategy and recommendations on equalising access regardless of parent’s employment status tinyurl.com/yyttr57m

Thrilled to be in this brilliant line up with @yinkaolusoga.bsky.social. We'll be talking children's digital and hybrid play and custom drawing on research from the #PlayObservatory project #Folklore #Digilore www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/folkl...