Our online exhibition developed with the Young V&A is now LIVE! Browse examples from our research giving insights into children’s play during the pandemic (best viewed on a desktop) 🖥 #PandemicPlay .

Congratulations @young_vam #musemoftheyear @artfund from all your friends at the Play Obsevatory @JohnPP @katecowan @DrJuliaBish @YinkaOlusoga @cathbannister1 @ValeSignorelli @shelleuk Amazing Achievement! @CatherineRitman Helen Charman @SophieSage 👏👏👏😌.

RT @katecowan: Great to see this commission asking important questions like how we make more time and space for play and the potentials of….

On the International Day of Play… take a look at our exhibition of children’s play in the pandemic, co-curated with @young_vam #internationaldayofplay.

RT @JohnPP: Happy International Day of Play! Great new initiative from @CfYoungLives Sign up & learn about (or give evidence on) the Right….

RT @katecowan: What a treat to get to @JohnPP’s inaugural professorial lecture tonight. A research megamix of greatest hits including @play….

Our pandemic play themed issue of @SAGE_GSC is out as a complete volume. @YinkaOlusoga @DrJuliaBish @cathbannister1 @ValeSignorelli @katecowan @shelleuk @JohnPP @young_vam @IoeResearch @LomaxHelen @EducationSheff The Play Observatory was funded by @ESRC

From our forthcoming Pandemic Play themed issue of @SAGE_GSC @lomaxhelen and Kate Smith on ‘…attentive, playful arts-based methodology with children’ @HuddersfieldUni @JohnPP @YinkaOlusoga @IOE_London @EducationSheff Open Access out now

‘Pandemic Playthings: A multimodal perspective on toys and play in the time of COVID-19’ New open access in themed issue of @SAGE_GSC from @katecowan with @theodoorjacob and Staffan Selander @IOE_London @uclknowledgelab @EducationSheff @ucl_cmr @JohnPP

RT @IOE_London: A new report from @PlayObservatory led by @JohnPP with @ESRC funding highlights the power of play to boost children’s agenc….

‘I danced along the road to the Macarena song which felt a bit naughty’ Affective entanglements and the wayfaring pandemic child.Out now @YinkaOlusoga’s new open access article in themed issue@SAGE_GSC ! @EducationSheff @IoeResearch @JohnPP @cathbannister1

Our next Open Access article from the Pandemic Play themed issue of @SAGE_GSC @YinkaOlusoga @cathbannister1 @DrJuliaBish on ‘Infection or inflection? Constructions of children’s play through the prism of the pandemic. @EducationSheff @IoeResearch @JohnPP

‘Children’s production of place and (third) space during Covid 19: den building, filmmaking and the postdigital in the Play Observatory’ new open access @JohnPP @shelleuk @katecowan @SAGE_GSC more from the team soon @IOE_London @IoeResearch @EducationSheff

RT @JohnPP: Honoured to be speaking today at symposium and launch of the book on 'The Nature of the Game' @WIELS_Brussels (Hoping to get a….

RT @katecowan: Delighted that the @PlayObservatory has been featured as an @IOE_London Impact Story - showcasing and celebrating the impact….

RT @JohnPP: @PlayObservatory in @IoeResearch Impact Stories 2023 Thanks to the team! @katecowan @YinkaOlusoga @ValeSignorelli @DrJuliaBish….

RT @JohnPP: I have an essay in a new book from @KU_Leuven on @francisalys brilliant 'The Nature of the Game' -on now @WIELS_Brussels until….

RT @JohnPP: @young_vam congratulations to all involved in Young V & A! It looks amazing! Lots of thought has gone into it ❤️open to the pu….

RT @JohnPP: @YinkaOlusoga starting to map entanglements in some of our @PlayObservatory contributions from the Home School Kids. Brilliant….

RT @JohnPP: @YinkaOlusoga outlines the ways in which we tried to work with ‘hopeful methodologies’ in @PlayObservatory throughout our work.….

RT @JohnPP: @YinkaOlusoga very moving opening talk at #sheffieldliteracies about her work on black history for children - forging ‘hope’, t….