New publication celebrating 10 years of @pedalcam.bsky.social! 🌟 Featuring reflections from our first decade, including... 🗨️ children's self-reported playfulness 🤝 children as advisors on research 📹 child-driven creative methods 🔓 Open access: doi.org/10.1080/2159... @paulramchandani.bsky.social

Innovative methods to centre children in research: celebrating 10 years of play with the PEDAL Research Centre

Centring children in play research is fundamental for both children and researchers. It also offers the opportunity to gain important insights that would otherwise remain hidden from view for other...

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PEDAL's @ejgoodacre.bsky.social, Laura Oxley, Zhiyu Zhao, Rebecca Reid, Alejandra Vijil Morin & @paulramchandani.bsky.social have published a paper in the International Journal of Play exploring innovative methods to centre children in research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

This is one of very few long term studies of a brief early intervention to improve mental health in young children. The news is positive - we can make sustained improvements for children early in their lives. Something that early years practitioners know - now there is more research to back it up.

PEDAL Research Centre@pedalcam.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The long-term follow up findings of our Healthy Start, Happy Start study have been published in the Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... @camedfac.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

IFS Associate Director @ckfarquharson.bsky.social gives evidence to @commonshealth.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am on the provision of early years services and our recent report on the impact of Sure Start centres. Find out more here: committees.parliament.uk/event/24353/...

4 June 2025 - The First 1000 Days: a renewed focus - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament

09:15 - The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

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Health and Social Care Committee@commonshealth.bsky.social · last yr.

Tomorrow, 9:30am We're continuing our inquiry into the first 1000 days of life and examining local authority provision of early years services through the Family Hubs model. We'll hear from @theifs.bsky.social @barnardos.org.uk @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social, and Hull City Council

It's your last chance to book your place for the #PEDALConference2025 as ticket sales close at 11pm on Friday! 🎟️ pedalhub.net/conference2025

PEDAL Research Centre@pedalcam.bsky.social · last yr.

Due to popular demand, we've just released another 30 tickets for the #PEDALConference2025! 🎟️ If you've been thinking about booking, now is the time! ⏰ Book your ticket for the #PEDALConference2025 at pedalhub.net/conference2025

Do you work with or volunteer with children under five? Please complete this survey about AI in the early years and/or share with your networks. cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Thanks so much!

PEDAL Research Centre@pedalcam.bsky.social · last yr.

To do this, we need to understand the perspectives of those working with young children and are asking those who work or volunteer with children under 5 to complete a 10-minute survey: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A few places left for our PEDAL annual conference on 11th June. We've booked the biggest room in the Faculty and so can squeeze a few more in. As well as Minister Stephen Morgan MP, we have lots of excellent early years and play science and practice, with experts from all over including....(1/2)

PEDAL Research Centre@pedalcam.bsky.social · last yr.

We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social, Minister for Early Education at the Department for Education Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20... Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social, Minister for Early Education at the Department for Education Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20... Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

Very good article by Amy Orben "we propose that if there is inadequate safety information available about a digital product ... researchers and policymakers should lower the evidence thresholds needed to start testing interventions to address potential harms." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The fight to keep big tech in check: digital researchers are in ‘David and Goliath’ battle

Resource constraints hobble analyses of how digital technologies affect mental health, and take a huge toll on the scientists working to make the online world safer.

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We've sold 75% of the available tickets for the #PEDALConference2025! Book your ticket at pedalhub.net/conference2025 and join us at @camedfac.bsky.social on Wednesday 11th June 2025 🎟️

We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker @juliangrenier.bsky.social, Senior Content and Engagement Manager for Early Years at the Education Endowment Foundation. Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20... Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

Join us at the #PEDALConference2025 where @juliangrenier.bsky.social will present "Play, access and opportunity: Game-changing action for children". Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20... Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

Due to popular demand, we've just released another 30 tickets for the #PEDALConference2025! 🎟️ If you've been thinking about booking, now is the time! ⏰ Book your ticket for the #PEDALConference2025 at pedalhub.net/conference2025

#Academics in England! Please sign & share! A group of us across academic disciplines have drafted a letter in support of the #PlayCommission's call for an English national #PlayStrategy. It will be submitted alongside others from people in built environment, health, education etc. bit.ly/4dalQed

Wonderful to see the findings from this important trial published. Congratulations to the research team and all involved in delivering it. Challenging findings, that I still need to digest, but good to see this trial, in a complex area of practice, being delivered.

Dennis Ougrin@dennisougrin.bsky.social · last yr.

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One stream of work at PEDAL is developing ways to allow young children to express their views and feelings about things that matter to them. A new paper from Dr Sydney Conroy looks at a way of exploring this, using sand tray methods. You can read about it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trusting play to be meaningful data: using sand tray as a play-based research method with an adapted interpretative phenomenological analysis

Play-based research methods wherein play itself is analysed as valuable and insightful data is sparse. This methodology article details one method for play-based research, sand tray, in conjunction...

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Join us at the #PEDALConference2025 where Dr Nikhit D'Sa will present "Leveraging alternative systems to support children’s development amid crisis". Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference2025speakers Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker Nikhit D’Sa, developmental psychologist & applied education researcher at the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child. Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20... Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

Just one day to go until the launch of the new Foundations Guidebook! ⏳ The Guidebook is a free, online digest of over 130 interventions, which makes it easy to access evidence on what works for children & families & put it into practice. Watch this space to find out more 🔍

We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Professor at the Department of Physical Education and Health at Queen Maud University College Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference2025speakers Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker @DrCathD, Associate Professor in the SAMRC Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in SA 🇿🇦 Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20... Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

Join us at the #PEDALConference2025 where Dr Catherine Draper will present "Early childhood development and the ‘next 1000 days’: Research and implementation insights from South Africa" Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference2025speakers Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

The first five years of life are crucial to a child’s development, the prevention of future #mentalhealth conditions and the promotion of mental wellbeing and resilience. Read more about our case for action here: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists@rcpsych.bsky.social · last yr.

The RCPsych now has an early years #mentalhealth page on the policy & campaigning section of our website linking to both our infant and early childhood mental health report and early years briefing for parliamentarians 🖥➡️ www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-ca...

Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Head of Educational Impact at LEGO Education will present "Play: The future of learning and thriving" at the #PEDALConference2025 Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20... Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

We're so excited to introduce you to our first #PEDALConference2025 keynote speaker: Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Head of Educational Impact at LEGO Education 🧱 Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20... Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

After our successful joint symposium with @starlightuk.bsky.social in 2023, we wanted to explore what more we could do together to improve children’s healthcare 🏥🧸 This new literature review is the result: www.pedalhub.net/projects/item/playing-with-childrens-health

PEDAL Conference 2025 tickets are available now! pedalhub.net/conference2025

This years PEDAL Conference will be on 11th June. We'll be celebrating 10 years with some great speakers. More details here (including some of the speakers): www.pedalhub.net/news-events/... And if you want to book a place, go here: onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-...

“Hope you had a restful break!!”