Category: Video / Animation
What Role for Children’s Self-Regulation in the Challenges Surrounding their Digital Activity?
8 July 2026
David Whitebread Memorial Lecture: What Role for Children’s Self-Regulation in the Challenges Surrounding their Digital Activity? Presented by Professor Steven Howard at the PEDAL Conference 2026. Steven Howard is a Senior Academic Research Leader in Child Development and Education with the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.
How We Turn Policy and Evidence into Better Outcomes for Children in their Early Years
8 July 2026
The Hard Yards of Delivery: How We Turn Policy and Evidence into Better Outcomes for Children in their Early Years Presented by Aida Cable as the keynote at the PEDAL Conference 2026. This session highlights how Thrive at Five ensures good policy survives contact with reality, and sets out some practical examples from programmes in […]
Take part in the Early Years Library Project
9 February 2026
Thank you for your interest in the Early Years Library. We are currently recruiting nurseries to take part in our project, which will take place between March and July 2026. To help you find out more about our project and what it would involve, we have created four short videos. Please watch all four videos […]
Play, access and opportunity: Game-changing action for children
17 July 2025
In this presentation from the PEDAL Conference 2025, Dr Julian Grenier, Senior Content and Engagement Manager for Early Years at the Education Endowment Foundation, draw on his experience of working in early education and care for more than three decades.
Leveraging alternative systems to support children’s development amid crisis
17 July 2025
Dr Nikhit D’Sa, a developmental psychologist and applied education researcher, share lessons from four years of research with communities in Haiti at the PEDAL Conference 2025.
AI, toys and the future
17 July 2025
These recordings formed the “AI, toys and the future” session, presented by Prof Rosie Flewitt and PEDAL’s Dr Emily Goodacre.
Children’s risky play: Thrilling experiences and developmental benefits
17 July 2025
Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Professor at the Department of Physical Education and Health at Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education, Norway, attended the PEDAL Conference 2025 to give the David Whitebread Memorial Lecture.
Building a community for change
17 July 2025
Sally Hogg, Eleanor Ireland and Amy McNaughton share how they’re building collaborations to drive change for children of the future.
Early childhood development and the ‘next 1000 days’
17 July 2025
Dr Catherine Draper, Associate Professor in the SAMRC Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, attended the PEDAL Conference 2025 to present her work on ‘the next 1000 days’ (2-5 years).
Play: The future of learning and thriving
17 July 2025
Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Head of Educational Impact at LEGO Education, attended the PEDAL Conference 2025 to discuss how play can be more deeply integrated into education, work, and society.