April 1984 –Now
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National
Co-ordinator of PlayEducation
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July 1992 –1996
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Training
Manager, PLAYLINK
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April 1991 –
June 1992
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Senior
Playworker, Peterborough City Council
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February
1981 – March 1984
|
Regional
Children’s Play Adviser (NPFA)
|
1970–1978
|
Playwork
related posts, including two spells on Adventure Playgrounds, Puddlebrook,
Haverhill, 1970–’74 and Romsey Town,
Cambridge, 1976, one in a Youth Centre, and one as a Community Development Officer
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July 1969 –
June 1970
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Tutor/Youth
Officer, Herts. County Council
|
1983–1984
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Trustee/Director,
The Association of Children’s Play and Recreation Ltd
|
1988–1989
|
Executive
Committee Member of the International Association for the Child’s Right to
Play (UK)
|
1989–1993
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Trustee of
the Lady Allan of Hurtwood Trust
|
1992–1997
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Editor in
Chief, International Play Journal
|
1992–1994
|
External
Examiner, Dip. H.E. in Playwork, Leeds Metropolitan University
|
1994–1995
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Member of
the Four Nations Play Strategy Group
|
1995–
|
Special
Adviser to the National Playing Fields Association
|
2000–2001
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Member of
the Eastern Regional Playwork Education Council
|
2001–2002
|
Executive
Member of the Joint National Committee on Training for Playwork
|
2002–
|
Member
International Advisory Board, Children’s Geographies
|
2002–2004
|
External
Examiner, Degree in Playwork, University of Wales College at Newport
|
2002–
|
Member of
the Expert Advisory Group, Children’s Play Review (DCMS/DfES)
|
2009
|
Chair of
Expert Advisory Group on Adventure Playgrounds for PlayEngland
|
2009–
|
Membership
Secretary International Play Association (England, Wales and Northern
Ireland)
|
Other Professional Work
1986–1988
|
Organiser/Tutor,
‘Developmental Play Policy’, and ‘Tools for Evaluation’, University College
of Swansea
|
1985–1987
|
Consultant
for the Merseyside Playwork Training Project
|
1985–1988
|
External
Assessor to the South-West London College
|
1986–1988
|
Organiser/Trainer
of ‘Training the Trainers’, and ‘Confidence, Knowledge and Methods’, for
PlayBoard (NI)
|
1982–
|
Organiser
of the Annual National Play and Human Development Meetings
|
1990–1991
|
Consultant
to PlayWales
|
1993–1995
|
Course
Developer (Play), for the Central Council for Physical Recreation
|
1993–1995
|
Trainer for
the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders.
(NACRO)
|
1993–1995
|
Trainer for
Hackney Play Association’s New Communities Playwork Training Project
|
1995–1998
|
Trainer for
‘Working for a Charity’
|
1995–1998
|
Trainer/Consultant
for NIACRO
|
1995–
|
Playwork
Staffing Consultant to Wolverhampton MBC
|
1996–1999
|
Member of
NPFA’s Education and Training Working Group, funded by DCMS
|
1996–1998
|
Consultant
to PlayBoard (NI)
|
1997
|
Co-researcher
with Thomas Coram Research Unit
|
1999
|
Trainer for
Hackney Play Association
|
Evaluator
of HPA’s Design and Build Project
|
|
Trainer for
Barnet Play Association
|
|
Organiser
of the Annual Theoretical Playwork Meetings
|
|
2000
|
Consultant
to PlayWales QA Process Basic/Intermediate
|
Consultant
to Wolverhampton MBC Best Value Process
|
|
Trainer for
Groundworks (NI)
|
|
Playwork
Practice Evaluator for Belfast Travellers Sites Project
|
|
2001
|
Consultant
to PlayWales QA Process Advanced
|
Consultant/Trainer
to Wolverhampton MBC Best Value Process
|
|
Playwork
Practice Evaluator for Belfast Travellers Sites Project
|
|
Trainer for
Cardiff City Council
|
|
2002
|
Consultant/Trainer
Groundwork NI
|
Trainer
Consultant to PlayBoard (NI)
|
|
2005–2008
|
Team Member
Islington Play Association Active Kids on Adventure Playgrounds Project
|
2008–
|
Islington
Play Association - Policy Adviser and Mentor
|
2010–
|
Belfast – Healing Through Remembering Policy Adviser and Trainer
|
2012–
|
Playground Evaluation – Freeplay The Ian Mikado School, London
|
Reports
1986
|
Leadership
in the Apex Trust
|
1988
|
Arbury
Adventure Playground, Cambridge, An Evaluation
|
1988
|
Play
Provision and Play Needs, Liverpool City Council
|
1988
|
Play in
Everton Park, Liverpool City Council
|
1989
|
Play, Its
current status and future possibilities, Avon County Council
|
1989
|
An
Integrated Playground, Stockport MBC
|
1990
|
Towards a
Development Strategy, PlayWales
|
1990
|
Development
Perspectives, South Glamorgan Playbus Association
|
2002
|
Evaluating
BTSG’s Golyer Project
|
2003
|
Audit and Report to Groundwork (NI) for Oak Foundation
|
Papers
1988
The
International Play Association - USA Meeting, Washington DC - ‘The Curriculum
of Playwork Training.
1989
1st South
American International Conference on Play and Child Development - Buenos Aires
- ‘The Play Environment as a Mechanism for Behavioural Balance’.
1990
11th IPA
World Conference in Tokyo. ‘Why play is a fundamental right’, and Built
environmental effects on instinctive and intuitive play outcomes - Some
Reflections’.
1993
World Play
Summit - Melbourne. ‘White playworker on a black playground’.
1993
Bob
Satterthwaite Memorial Lecture, ‘Caring about play, caring about children’.
1994
Sheffield
City Council - ‘Quality Play Criteria’.
1994
The Wirral
Qtec Conference - ‘A Question of Quality’.
1995
Islington
Adventure Play Conference - Keynote Address
1996
ILAM Play
Conference - ‘Quality Play Provision, The Outcomes’.
Save the
Children, Huddersfield, ‘Children’s participation’.
Making
Belfast Work, - ‘Play Provision in West Belfast’.
London
Borough of Enfield - ‘The importance of Play’.
London
Borough of Islington - ‘Children’s Rights’.
JNCTP AGM -
‘Manifesto for the Millennium’.
PLAYLINK/Portsmouth
City Council - ‘Towards a Technology of Playwork’.
1997
IPA-USA San
Antonio - ‘Playwork in Extremis, the RAP approach’ - The Prof. Joe Frost
Lecture.
PLAYLINK -
Towards a Technology of Playwork
1998
Childhood
Studies Discipline Network - ‘Playwork in Extremis’.
1999
PlayEducation
Meeting - Does playwork have a neurological rationale
Cross-Border
Women’s Network - ‘The Importance of Play’
On-line
Playwork Awards - Panel Member
Child Care
Network Scotland - ‘The Importance of Play 2’.
IPA/Portugal
- Uncensoring play - Towards an Evolutionary Perspective for Facilitating Recapitulation.
PlayWales -
Playwork, Philosophy and Practice.
2000
The
Theoretical Playwork Meeting - Has Children’s Play in Urban Belfast Been
Adulterated by the Troubles?
Cross-Border
Women’s Network - ‘The Importance of Play to Children’s Development’
Birmingham
City Council - Has Children’s Play in Urban Belfast Been Adulterated by the
Troubles?
2003
Cornwall
Colleges - Playwork Theories, what they are and what they mean.
PlayWales -
Playwork – Desirable Outcomes.
Newcastle
Playwork Forum - Reflective Analytic Thinking in Playwork
Sheffield
City Council - The Beauty of Play
Wales
Childcare - Play, An Evolutionary Game?
Bristol
Childcare - Play and Childcare – Fundamental Challenges
2004
Derry
Children’s Commission – Play and Play Deprivation.
KidsActive
(London) – Play and Disability
Sandwell Met.
Borough Council – The Role of Play in Human Development and Evolution
2005
Cornwall
Playwork Conference – Theoretical Playwork
PlayBoard
Belfast – The Implications of Play Deprivation
Bristol Day
Care Trust – The Importance of Play
Derry
Children’s Commission – The Importance of Play
London Centre
– Play Types
Play
Conference Stafford– The Beauty of Play
2006
PlayTrain
Conference Birmingham – The Importance of Play
Jersey Child
Care Conference – PlayTypes
Hillingdon
Play Conference – PlayTypes
Clydebank Conference
– The Importance of Play
2007
PlayEngland
Conference Stafford – The Importance of Play
PlayTrain
Birmingham – The Importance of Play
Croydon
Council Seminar – PlayTypes
Suffolk CC –
PlayTypes
Bedfordshire
CC – PlayTypes
Winchester
Conference – The Importance of Play
Irish
Preschool Playgroup Assoc. – The Importance of Play
Croydon
Council Conference – The Importance of Play
Broxbourne
Play Association (Edinburgh) – PlayTypes
PlayBoard NI
Omagh – Neophilic Modification
PATH
Conference – The Importance of Play
Monaghan
Conference – Neophilic Modification
2008
IPA World
Conference Hong Kong - Neophilic Modification
Suffolk
County Council Strategy Launch – A Play Policy for Suffolk
Plymouth City
Council – Play Deprivation
Irish
Preschool Playgroups Association - Bubble wrapped children and the technical
age.
PlayWales
Spirit Conference – An Experiment in Novelty
Bedfordshire
County Council – PlayTypes, where too now?
2009–2010
ICCP Lisbon –
Pre-empting the Punchline: Consultation, Participation and the Death of Play?
PlayBoard
Northern Ireland – Some Why's and What's of Playwork. A biological perspective.
Hertfordshire
County Council – The Play Environment – A Biological Perspective.
Leeds
Metropolitan University – Towards a unified playwork theory for provision for
play.
Portsmouth
City Council – A theory about playwork theory.
Eastbourne –
Wild Man in the Wings.
Ayr –
Playtypes and Associated Considerations
London
Borough of Merton – Some complexities of play and playwork. Food for Thought.
Glasgow –
What is Playwork for?
2011
Belgium –
Speelom Seminar - Consultation, Participation and the Death of Play.
Cardiff –
Does Playwork Work? Keynote Presentation to the 18th IPA Conference
St. Ives,
Cambridgeshire. Playwork Conference. The biological outcomes of playwork.
Eastbourne –
Staff Seminar. Towards a unified playwork theory for provision for play.
Chatham –
Medway Early Years and Childcare Team. Towards a unified playwork theory for
provision for play.
Birmingham –
BPCD. Does Playwork Work?
Milton Keynes
– National Scrapstores Conference. The Role of Scrap Providers in Wild Play.
London – East
London Playwork Annual Conference. Does Playwork Work?
2012
London –
Hackney Play Association, Playworker’s Professional Development Seminar. Does
Playwork Work?
London – East London Annual Play Conference - The Pros and Cons of Filming Play
London – East London Annual Play Conference - The Pros and Cons of Filming Play
Eastbourne –
National Playwork Conference. Towards a unified playwork theory for provision
for play.
Midlothian Play Conference – Whose Play is it Anyway?
Midlothian Play Conference – Whose Play is it Anyway?
Luebeck,
Germany – Keynote Presentation to the EFCF Conference
Articles
‘Making
play work’
|
TES
|
1976
|
‘Looking at
Play’, with Hank Williams
|
Play Times
31-35
|
1982
|
‘A new
game’
|
TES
|
1987
|
‘Justice, a
biological perspective’
|
Justice for
Children (USA)
|
1987
|
‘Play and
the Environment’
|
7 Days
|
1987
|
‘Play and
the Environment’
|
The Leisure
Manager
|
1988
|
‘Children’s
Play, the forgotten right’
|
Environment
and Urbanisation
|
1990
|
‘School
playgrounds -Slipping Away?’
|
TES
|
1991
|
‘Playwork,
It’s role in Development and Evolution’
|
The Leisure
Manager
|
1992
|
‘Addressing
the Fundamentals’
|
Three
PLAYLINK Seminars
|
1996
|
Play
Deprivation, Play Bias and Playwork Practice
|
Playwork
Theory and Practice
|
2003
|
Books, Manuals and Films
Notes for
Adventure Playworkers
|
CYAG
|
1975
|
Play
Environments: A Question of Quality
|
PLAYLINK
|
1996
|
A
Playworkers Taxonomy of Play Types
|
PLAYLINK
|
1996
|
Games Not
Names - The Non-Sectarian Training Pack
|
PlayBoard
|
2000
|
The First
Claim – Playwork Quality Assessment
|
PlayWales
|
2001
|
The First
Claim – Playwork Quality Assessment
|
Japanese
|
2009
|
The First
Claim – Desirable Processes
|
PlayWales
|
2002
|
Evolutionary
Playwork and Reflective Analytic Practice
|
Routledge
|
2001
|
Evolutionary
Playwork, 2nd Edition
|
Routledge
|
2011
|
A
Playworkers Taxonomy of Play Types, 2nd Edition
|
PLAYLINK
|
2002
|
PlayTypes –
Possibilities and Speculations
|
NCPET
(London)
|
2006
|
The
Importance of Outdoor Play,
|
Green Lions
Film Company, for The National Trust
|
2012
|
Awards
1993
The National
Playing Field’s Association’s President’s Award
2000
The Mike
Taylor Memorial Prize for Originality and Innovation in Professional Scholarship
2008
Lifetime in
Play Award from London Play
Passions other than Playwork
Grandchildren,
Family, Song Writing and Recording Music, Photography, Fell Walking, Gardening
