PEDAL Play Research Centre

PEDAL Play Research Centre has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in December 2020. The social media accounts linked to from PEDAL Play Research Centre are: • YouTube • LinkedIn • Email • Apple Podcasts • X • Bluesky Besides social media accounts, pedalcam has populated their site with: • Links to papers and articles • Risky play: Our children need more • Parental perspectives on the use of automated methods in early childhood developmental checks • Innovative methods to centre children in research: Celebrating 10 years of play with the PEDAL Research Centre • Thriving Together Framework • AI toys are the future of play • AI and early years research study • Sign up to PEDAL's mailing list • Participate in Our Research • Register for Professorial Lectures 10 November 2025 • Understanding how certain personality traits impact children’s enjoyment of school and teachers’ perceptions of children’s behaviour - PEDAL • Healthy Start, Happy Start • A scoping review of teacher training programs to promote learning through play in pre- and primary schools • Playtime with Books • AI toys project quick-read summary • Early Years Library • How will childhood be changed by AI toys? Guardian letter • PEDAL Conference 2025 recordings • Autism and comics survey • PEDAL Resource Library • Nesta webinar: Online parenting programmes • Healthy Start, Happy Start quick-read summary • Healthy Start, Happy Start paper in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry • AI and early years survey • Healthy Start, Happy Start page on the PEDAL Hub • Healthy Start, Happy Start animation • Playing with Children’s Health? Our latest report for Starlight • Everything to Play For - Play Commission Report • PEDAL Conference 2025 Speakers • Everything to Play For — Raising the Nation Play Commission.pdf • PEDAL Conference 2024 Recordings • REAL Centre Conference • PEDAL Conference 2025 Info (ticket sales now closed) • UKFIET: Lessons learnt from implementing and evaluating programmes to promote play-based learning in Ghana • RCPCH Milestones: Groovy Tuesdays article • Nesta: Scaling up Playtime with Books • How can emotionally healthy workplaces support emotionally healthy families? • Learning from the Mobilise Programme Seminar • Book Sharing Videos • REAL x PEDAL Engage Toolkit Seminar • The Mobilise Podcast • Mobilise Evaluation • Festival of Stories - Playtime with Books • It’s a Pandemic in the Playborhood • Supporting Learning Through Play - Play Commission Submission • Linking Ages: A Dialogue between Childhood and Ageing Research • Semana JIM Play in Hospital Week • Babies’ and young children’s perspectives in practice • PEDAL YouTube • New Research: Learning through play in Global Majority countries • VIPP-SD Programme • CPFT & PEDAL Research Fellow Vacancy • About the PEDAL Conference 2024 • PEDAL Conference LIVE: Paul Frisoli (Passcode 963527) • PEDAL Conference LIVE: Junlei Li, Louise Dalton & Louise Bazalgette (Passcode 348703) • New Research: Centring children in play in hospitals • PEDAL Play Pieces Blogs • David Whitebread Memorial Lecture Replay • Sally Hogg for CYPN: A strategy to deliver an ambitious mission for children • Sally Hogg for tes: How Labour can put learning at the heart of its nursery plan • Government launches Curriculum and Assessment Review • Vacancy: Research Associate (closes 17 July) • Engage with Developmental Language Disorder (E-DLD) • Parent Survey of AI and developmental checks • PEDAL Hub • Early Childhood: Understanding the Journey (Centre for Early Childhood) • Understanding and supporting mental health in infancy and early childhood: a toolkit to support local action in the UK • Play in South African autism schools: why are formalised ethical processes important? • Educational interventions involving physical manipulatives for improving children's learning and development: A scoping review • Playing with change: insights and lessons from researching play during the COVID-19 pandemic • Infant Mental Health Awareness Week: How can we help little minds thrive? • “Play was not on lockdown”: Children’s perspectives on their play experiences during COVID-19 • All Work and No Play? Busting the Binary in Majority World Settings • Diversity in autistic play: Autistic adults’ experiences - PEDAL • Let's play, doctor • The Playtime with Books programme - PEDAL • Children’s Perspectives and Experiences of Play in Hospital - PEDAL • Continuing the ‘play and health revolution’: Semana JIM® 2022 - PEDAL • How to communicate with children, according to Health Play Specialists in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study - PEDAL • Understanding and supporting mental health in infancy and early childhood – a toolkit to support local action in the UK. • Creating Classrooms for Change: Developing cognitive flexibility in schools in Rwanda - PEDAL • Rapid Automated Assessment of Parent-Infant Dyads (RAAPID) - PEDAL • A playful, evidence-informed approach to maths education - PEDAL • It’s Mental Health Awareness Week: But what do we mean by mental health? • PEDAL Play and Mental Health Conference 2023 • Play and health - PEDAL • Reviewing the link between language abilities and peer relations in children with developmental language disorder: The importance of children’s own perspectives • Integrating the voices of babies and children into PEDAL's work • Semana JIM • The therapeutic powers of play: play therapy as a mental health treatment - PEDAL • David Whitebread Memorial Lecture 2023 • Play in the face of adversity - PEDAL • Let's play, doctor - An article about Semana Jim 2023 • Resource Library - PEDAL • Conference videos on our Youtube Channel