The ACES (A Community-Centred Educational Model for Developing Social Resilience through Play) project addresses global challenges in education by fos…

Ludic Design team at the ESRC IAA Showcase evening Oct 2025 As we come to the end of 2025, we are reflecting on a year that has been firmly grounded in community-engaged practice, care-centred research, and the continued development of playful and frugal design as a serious research methodology. This year, our work has not been defined by scale alone, but by depth of engagement.

Earlier this month, Prof Katherine Wimpenny and I travelled to Indonesia as part of the British Council funded BRIDGE-HE project – Building Disability-Inclusive Research Culture in Indonesian Highe…

Earlier this month, Prof Katherine Wimpenny and I travelled to Indonesia as part of the British Council funded BRIDGE-HE project – Building Disability-Inclusive Research Culture in Indonesian Higher Education (HE). The project aims to understand and strengthen the experiences of disabled students across the student journey, from undergraduate to postgraduate study and into early academic careers. This phase of our fieldwork centred on…

At the heart of every educational or societal transformation lies a simple question: Who is being included, and how?For over a decade, our work has explored how inclusive and equitable design, grou…

At the heart of every educational or societal transformation lies a simple question: Who is being included, and how?For over a decade, our work has explored how inclusive and equitable design, grounded in play, creativity, and co-creation, can reshape learning and community engagement across diverse contexts. From CreativeCulture in Borneo to ACES, FAiR, and I-HEDU, this journey has been about designing…

Two new articles published this summer capture the journey and insights from the ACES project, which I had the privilege to lead with colleagues and partners across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Together, we explored how playful design, frugality, and co-creation can open new possibilities for inclusive and sustainable education in resource-constrained contexts. The first article, published in Social Sciences & Humanities Open…

This study investigates how playful and frugal values can be integrated to support inclusive and sustainable STEM learning in resource-constrained and…

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I realise I haven’t shared many updates over the past year, but in truth, that’s because so much of our time has been joyfully absorbed in the work itself. 2024 has been a beautifully full year—ric…