Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer

Please note 📣date change📣: SSCIP 2025 will now take place from the 25th-27th June

This research was made possible by @AU_Archaeology at @AarhusUni_int with funding my PhD-project, and by @UlrikHjJohnsen1 at @MuseumMoesgaard by allowing me access to the ethnographic collections.

Lastly, we argue that how important play is for innovation, pointing out how the initial emergence of play objects correlates with periods of innovation.

We have identified different learning processes and aims as well as changing roles within a community of practice of Wodaabe bowyers.

NEW PAPER. My second PhD-paper is now out. In collaboration with Miriam Haidle and @ARCHAEOfelix, we have used the method of cognigrammetry on a bow-and-arrow play set from the Wodaabe in West Africa. The paper published by @LivUniPress: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hg…

By analysing the bow-and-arrow play set we have been able to reconstruct a setting of situated learning through developing peripheral participation across different-age learners and teachers.

Our study shows how analysing toys using the method of cognigrammetry can tell us about the cognitive capacity of children.

📢 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 SSCIP Annual Conference will take place in Aarhus, Denmark from 24th - 26th June 🥳 #conference #childhoodstudies

The paper is open access, and supplementary material can be found here zenodo.org/records/108062…

This research was made possible by @AU_Archaeology at @AarhusUni_int with funding my PhD-project and by additional funding by @Nationalmuseet through the Elisabeth Munksgaard foundation.

PAPER ALERT. First paper from my PhD-project is now out. In collaboration with @ARCHAEOfelix, we have looked at children and innovation during the Little Ice Age in Greenland. Read it in EJA by @archaeologyEAA published by @CambUP_Archaeo: doi.org/10.1017/eaa.20…

Ready to learn about playful dissemination at the Playful Space Summit at @designskolenkd. Gonna be an interesting day, I’m sure 👏🏻

My last day visiting @UVicAnthro ending the best way possibly with a hands-on workshop on palaeolithic art with @NowellApril, playing with clay and charcoal

Enjoying the nice sunshine and beautiful nature in Victoria on my last Sunday here before going home again 🇨🇦🇩🇰

Went whale watching outside Victoria yesterday with @Whale_Sightings and their knowledgeable staff 🐋 Amazing experience