Staff involved in teaching and learning: share your experience with #playfullearning! Whether you use these methods, are curious about them, or sceptical – we want to hear from YOU. Help shape the future of university #HigherEd teaching 👇 nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #HCI #Design

Delighted to welcome 32 RE:PLAY Fellows to the RE:PLAY project. research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/repla... They will be working with our learning design fellows over the next year to redevelop their modules and evidence the impacts. Watch this space.

My inaugural lecture for Northumbria University, State of Play: A History of Playful Learning in Ten Video Games, will be on 15 October 2025 online and in-person. All welcome. Guest appearance by everyone's favourite badger and drinks somewhere afterwards. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

State of Play: A history of Playful Learning in 10 Video Games

State of Play: A history of Playful Learning in 10 Video Games

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Mine and @nicwhitton.bsky.social 's 'unconventional' case for playfulness in HE leadership: wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ca...

The case for playful leadership

Openness, creativity, honesty, humility - Nic Whitton and Alex Moseley make the counterintuitive case for playfulness in higher education leadership

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Really excited to have been awarded a significant grant from the ESRC to investigate playful learning in higher education. Three years to explore play with amazing people. Happy days 😀

Northumbria University@northumbriauni.bsky.social · last yr.

Northumbria’s Professor @nicwhitton.bsky.social is working with universities across the UK to lead an ESRC-funded research project exploring the benefits of more interactive and playful approaches to learning in higher education. Full story here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Northumbria’s Professor @nicwhitton.bsky.social is working with universities across the UK to lead an ESRC-funded research project exploring the benefits of more interactive and playful approaches to learning in higher education. Full story here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

New research could enhance the future of teaching in higher education

Academics from universities across the UK are about to launch a research project which could lead to changes in how higher education is taught – with a move away from traditional lectures in favour of...

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Today I managed to co-ordinate the diaries of senior colleagues at six different universities to schedule a two-day workshop less than six months in the future. I think I might just have reached the pinnacle of academic achievement.

I just found this image in my ChatGPT image creation history. I have no memory of creating it, and no idea what I asked for, or more crucially why.

We have a programme and two awesome keynotes 😀🎈. The Research in Digital Learning in Higher Education Conference is open for bookings. hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/ridlhe/ Come and join us in Newcastle 3-4 September 2025. Early bird closes 1 May 2025. Please share.

Journal of Play in Adulthood is now on Bluesky, follow to (mainly) see our lovely articles!

Journal of Play in Adulthood@playjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

It might be a little while before we start posting, but hello all! We're the Journal of Play in Adulthood, a diamond open access journal. More to follow soon... www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk

Only five days to go before the paper submission deadline for the first Research in Digital Learning in Higher Education Conference on 9 Feb 2025. lnkd.in/eGd7yPFW Want to submit something but can't meet the deadline? We can be flexible - please talk to me before Sunday.

Me and @playbrarian.uk are looking to expand our existing pool of amazing reviewers for the Journal of Play in Adulthood. Please drop us a line if you're interested or want to know more. We offer support, infinite gratitude, and AI-generated haikus on request. www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk

Less than a month to go until the deadline for submissions for our new conference exploring critical perspectives on Research in Digital Learning. The submissions system is now open. Please share 😀 hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/ridlhe/

Come an join us to start some critical conversations about education and technology in universities in the North East. All welcome but places limited.

Cristina Costa@cristinacost.bsky.social · 2y ago

@nicwhitton.bsky.social and I will be hosting a CSET 2025 – Critical studies of education and technology meeting in Durham on the 21st February, 2025 (this event is globally organised by @neilselwyn.bsky.social ). Free registration is now open www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cset-2025-...

Ooooooh look at the exciting thing that arrived this morning

There’s snur up north.

Kid’s school: “In this email we are thinking about effective communication…” Kid’s school (15 minutes later): “We apologise for sending out the wrong link in our previous email…” 🤦‍♀️

Exciting read arrived yesterday. The growth of play in universities is inspiring 😀

New conference alert 😀 Research In Digital Learning In Higher Education (RIDL:HE) will take place 3-4 September 2025 in Newcastle, UK. Building on principles of inclusive and playful conference design, RIDL:HE has the research community at its heart. Please join us. Please share.

Research in Digital Learning in Higher Education is a new conference, launching on 3rd-4th September 2025 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which will provide the Higher Education sector with a space to share and critically discuss evidenced-based research and practice in digital learning.

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We're recruiting for an AHRC Northern Bridge PhD scholarship on digital tinkering, play, and learning to fail www.northernbridge.ac.uk/applyforastu... Happy to talk to anyone who might be interested in applying. Please share. #playresearch

Lovely impromptu trip to Darlington tonight thanks to being an adult who can’t work trains 🚂