Thursday, 30 September 2021

Playful University Platform Thematic Webinar Series: Design(ing) for playful higher education

 We are delighted to announce 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 here:

https://www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk/issues/

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.

 

All webinars are open, online and free to all – but registration is required

 

On 11 October, 15.00-16.30 CET, we kick of the series with the interesting and important subject of What is it like to be a Playful Academic, and how can we forge ways to get there? with Annika Lübbert, PhD student, Department of Neuro- and Pathophysiology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, GermanyPedro Gonzales-Fernande,  PhD student, HfMT in Hamburg, Germany and Katrin Heimann, Postdoc, Interacting Minds Center at Aarhus University, Denmark

 

You can register for and read more about the event here: https://dpu.au.dk/en/about-the-school/nyheder/single/artikel/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-playful-academic-and-how-can-we-forge-ways-to-get-there/ (zoom-link and details will be sent upon registration the day before the event)

 

The PUP Thematic Webinar Series 2 is part of the Playful University Platform, a project under CHEF lead by Rikke Toft Nørgård and Josephine Eghave Midttun Solheim. 

 

You can find more information and sign-up for the individual webinars by following the links in the attached pdf or by visiting the CHEF event page here: https://dpu.au.dk/en/research/research-programmes/chef/events/

 

You can also visit the Playful University Platform (PUP) here: https://open-tdm.au.dk/blogs/playuni/ to learn more about the project, get your hands on loads of PUP materials (and the videos from the first instalment of the webinar series). Here you can also sign up to get notified when more events and opportunities in relation to playful higher education or PUP are happening

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