Children

Research on the right of all children to play. The focus is on the impact of the physical and social environment on enabling play, especially for children with different disabilities. The children's own perspective is an important part of the research area.

Ongoing research

P4PLAY People, Place, and Practice for Play

P4Play is one of the EU's Horizon2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie action projects to start a European Joint Doctorate (EJD). The coordinator of the project is University College Cork (Ireland), LTU, the other partners are Queen Margret University, Edingburough (Scotland) and Zurich Hochschule fur Angewa...

Children and young people's experiences of play in digital environments

Play increasingly takes place in digital environments, but knowledge about it from a child's perspective is limited.

The influence of playground design on the play experiences of children with disability

Playgrounds are meaningful places for all children and indispensable for the development of physical, social and emotional skills. Playgrounds for children are an important place for social interactions with peers, and for parents a meeting place with other families.

Do children play to practise or do they practise to play?

Play is an important area of life in a child's everyday life. Play is often described as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that has a significant function for the overall development of children cognitively, linguistically, emotionally and socially. Children with disabilities have the same r...

Children's experiences of Playground usability

The aim of the project is to study the accessibility and usefulness of different environments for children with different abilities.