PEDAL Cam

Mark your calendars: The #PEDALConference2026 is coming on Thursday 11th June 2026, #InternationalDayOfPlay 🧸 More details to follow...

Season's Greetings and a happy and playful new year from all at PEDAL. We're taking a little break to enjoy the festivities and will be back in the new year!

Our paper on the use of AI in child development checks is available now on the Early Childhood Education Journal: link.springer.com/article/10.100… @DrJennyG @soiziclc

The Thriving Together framework sets out the key skills that are at the heart of everyday moments between caregivers and babies or young child (0-5 years old) and supports children’s social and emotional wellbeing, mental health, and related areas of development.

Our Thriving Together Framework is here! pedalhub.net/wp-content/upl… @NIHRresearch @UKRI_News @christineofar @NicoleCreasey @salhogg @tilly_kirby19

@ejgoodacre @YahooLifeUK How are children playing with them? Will they be beneficial or harmful to children's development? And might they actually take the place of a child's favorite stuffed animal? In this interview, Emily offers insight into her current research on the world of generative AI toys.

"These toys might be providing some kind of social interaction, but it's not human social interaction" says @ejgoodacre, PEDAL postdoc researcher in conversation with Priscilla Blossom for @yahoolifeuk 🤖 buff.ly/gGVnmOG

This ultimate resource equips parents, teachers, leaders and policymakers with a clear framework to guide the crucial choices they make for young people.

The Hesscairn Guide to Learning: Transforming Education written by PEDAL PhD student and school principal Stuart MacFarlane MacAlpine was published this week! It delivers the essential manual we never had, challenging foundational ideas about education. ingrovepress.com/products/the-h…

PEDAL PhD student @DrTomRance, @KathrynHesketh (UCL) and PEDAL's @paulramchandani have published an article in Archives of Disease in Childhood entitled Risky play: our children need more: adc.bmj.com/content/110/12…

⁦@ChildrensComm⁩ ‘health isn’t just the absence of illness. We need to make more space for joy and play’. ⁦@NHS⁩ ⁦@ncbtweets⁩ ⁦@barnardos⁩ @rcpch ⁦@PEDALCam⁩ #KFChildrensHealth

PEDAL's @ejgoodacre, @loxley590, Zhiyu Zhao, Rebecca Reid, Alejandra Vijil Morin & @paulramchandani have published a paper in the International Journal of Play exploring innovative methods to centre children in research: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy Outdoor Classroom Day! Join the thousands of children and teachers all over the world who will be taking part in outdoor play and learning activities today. Find out more 🔎 outdoorclassroomday.org.uk #OutdoorClassroomDay @OutdoorClassDay

@elle_phd - Developing executive functions tasks to use in classrooms around the world @DrJennyG - Exploring links between play, communication and wellbeing in human development @SaraBCam - Learner competencies as states, not traits

Please join us on Monday 10 November for a Trio of A Trio of Inaugural Professorial Lectures from the Psychology and Education Group at @CamEdFac. All welcome, register here for in-person and online: forms.office.com/pages/response… @elle_phd @DrJennyG @SaraBCam

@salhogg In episode one, Sir David Bell, Former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education, talks to Sally about research, politics and the critical role that civil servants play in helping Ministers to navigate evidence.

Did you know that PEDAL launched the Mobilise Podcast mini-series in 2024? 🎧 PEDAL's former Senior Policy Fellow @salhogg talks to leading UK policymakers and politicians about how research can be used in policy to improve children's lives. pedalhub.net/projects/item/…

@EmmaPritchard95 @DrJennyG Descriptions of autistic play have typically focused on “deficits” and are based on comparisons to neurotypical “norms”. According to the neurodiversity paradigm, it is important that autistic voices are highlighted and that difficulties, differences, and strengths are explored.

In this piece from the #PEDALResourceLibrary archives, PEDAL Research Associate @EmmaPritchard95, Carmen de Lemos, Katie Howard and PEDAL's @DrJennyG focus on the experiences and perspectives of autistic people concerning the topic of autistic play: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…

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