PUP Thematic Webinar Series 2: Design(ing) for Playful Higher Education

Pup Webinar Vol2

Here is the second instalment of the Playful University Platform Thematic Webinar Series: Design(ing) for playful higher education. Each webinar features authors from two special issues of the Journal of Play in Adulthood edited by CHEF-boardmember Rikke Toft Nørgård and Dr. Alex Moseley. The first special issue on ‘The Playful Academic’ is already out, while the second special issue ‘Design(s) for Playful Learning’ will be out next month – you can find the special issues and the speakers’ articles Link Arrow here.

Each webinar will include both presentations based on the published articles as well as activities exploring the theme and approach to playful higher education. The webinar series will conclude with an online book launch and reception celebrating the 2-year anniversary of the Playful University Platform.

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What is it like to be a Playful Academic, and how can we forge ways to get there?


Date: 
October 11, 2021, 15.00-16.30

Venue: Online via Zoom

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Speakers: Pedro Gonzales-Fernande, PhD student, HfMT in Hamburg, Germany
                  Katrin Heimann, Postdoc, Interacting Minds Center at Aarhus University, Denmark
                  Annika Lübbert, PhD student, Department of Neuro- and Pathophysiology, University Medical Centre
                  Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Registration deadline: 
October 6, 2021

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Teachers as Playful Academics


Date: 
November 1, 2021, 9.00 - 10.30

Venue: Online via Zoom

FeeFree

Speakers: Belinda Dean, Deakin University
                  Judi Parson, Deakin University

Registration deadline: 
October 27, 2021

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Collective Collage Making as Higher Education Practice


Date: 
November 15, 2021, 15.00 - 16.30

Venue: Online via Zoom

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Speakers: Sandra Abegglen, Researcher, University of Calgary
                  Tom Burns, Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University
                  Sandra Sinfield, Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University

Registration deadline: 
November 10, 2021

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From Magic Circle to Epistolary Circle: Playing with Our Imaginary Friends


Date: 
November 29, 2021, 10.00 - 11.30

Venue: Online via Zoom

FeeFree

Speakers: - Natasha Taylor, Head of Educational Development, Australia College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
                  - Catriona Cunningham, Head of Department for Learning & Teaching Enhancement, Edinburgh Napier University
                  - Jennie Mills, Associate Professor, University of Warwick
                  - Jenni Carr, Director of the LSE Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education and the Principles of Teaching in Higher
                    Education programmes at LSE

Registration deadline: 
November 24, 2021

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Book launch: Playful Academia – Thinking, Voices, Practices & Activities from the Field


Date: 
December 8, 2021, 15.00 - 16.00

Venue: Online via Zoom

FeeFree

Speakers: - Josephine Solheim, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Education, VIA University College Ikast
                  - Rikke Toft Nørgård, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies,
                    Danish School of Education, Aarhus University
                  - Kimie Jay Bukholt, Master student of Arts, Department of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies,
                    Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

Registration deadline: 
December 6, 2021

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