Towards the Child Friendly City featured a wide range of expert and engaging presenters, workshop leaders, and panelists, from Europe and around the world.
Hosts
Marvin Rees
Mayor of Bristol
Councillor Helen Godwin
Cabinet Member for Women, Children and Young People, Bristol City Council
Speakers and Workshop Leaders
Dr. Kate Bishop
Associate Professor and Discipline Director of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Petter Åkerblom
Landscape Architect, Senior lecturer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Sweden
Dr. Tom Allport
Consultant Community Paediatrician, Community Children’s Health Partnership, University of Bristol, England
Ozlemnur Ataol
PhD candidate, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dr. Cathy Atkinson
Curriculum Director, Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology, University of Manchester, England.
Lucy Badrocke
Freelance curator and producer, Bristol, England.
Mike Barclay
Ludicology, Wrexham, Wales
Guilia Barra
PhD student in urban planning at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Simon Battisti
Director, Qendra Marrëdhënie (Relationship Center), Tirana, Albania
Professor Aude Bicquelet-Lock
Royal Town Planning Institute, UK
Dinah Bornat
Co-director, ZCD Architects, and design advocate for the Mayor of London, England
Alex Bottrill
Principal Urban Designer, England South, Sustrans, England
Dr. Jackie Bourke
School of Geography, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Marion Briggs
Co-ordinator, The Alliance for Childhood, UK
Amica Dall
Co-founder, Assemble, UK
Charlotte Derry
Playful Places, England
Dr. Luke Dickens
Lecturer in Urban Futures, King’s College London, England
Benedicte Dubiez
Sustrans, Bristol, England
Claire Edwards
Practitioner and researcher, Sydney, Australia
Vicky Edwards
Senior Playworker; Founder and Coordinator of The Playworkers Travelling Journals, UK
Wendy Ellyatt
CEO, Save Childhood Movement, UK
Janne Eilsø
Educational Consultant, KOMPAN Play Institute, Denmark
Alice Ferguson
Co-founder and Director, Playing Out CIC, UK
Flora Fernandez
PhD student in Architecture, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Michael Follett
Director, OPAL Outdoor Play and Learning CIC, England
Alain Flandes
PhD Student in Architecture, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Laurel Gallagher
Co-director, Urban Wilderness CIC, England
Jeanette Fich Jespersen
Head of the KOMPAN Play Institute, Denmark
Aleksandr Frontov
Chair of the Landscape Bureau AFA, Moscow, Russia
Tim Gill
Independent scholar, writer and consultant, author of No Fear: Growing up in a risk-averse society, UK
Josip Grgurić
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Croatia
Dr. Sophie Hadfield-Hill
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, England
Samantha Harman
Play Services Manager, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, England
Amy Harrison
The Architecture Centre, Bristol, England
Dr. Penny Hay
Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries, Senior Lecturer in Arts Education, School of Education, Bath Spa University, England
Eva Hoßfeld
University of Bremen, Germany
Anna Horton Cremin
Artist, co-director, One Five West, Manchester, England
Carolyn Ireland
Sustainable Transport Officer, Southampton City Council
Mary Jackson
Projects Manager, Learning through Landscapes, UK
Michaela James
Researcher, The ACTIVE Project, Swansea, Wales
Tracey Jobber
Senior play development officer, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, England
Sarah Jones-Morris
Director, Landsmith Associates, Bristol, England
Dr. Matluba Khan
Research Associate, University College London; Co-founder, A Place in Childhood, APiC CIC, Scotland
Professor Peter Kraftl
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, England
Dr. Penny Lawrence
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies, University of Roehampton, London, England.
Christine Yuihwa Lee
Founding Member, Taiwan Parks and Playgrounds for Children by Children, Taiwan
Purva Ladge
Researcher in Environmental Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, England
Leticia Lozano
Co-founder, Director, MACIA Estudio, Mexico City, Mexico
Marianne Mannello
Assistant Director: Policy, Support and Advocacy, Play Wales, Wales
Anna Mansfield
Director of Strategy and Research, Publica, England
Josephine Martin
Pioneering Places Project Manager, England
Dr. Mel McRee
Bath Spa University, Bath, England
Dr. Patrick Meehan
Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Education Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, England
Nafsika Michail
Landscape Architect, PhD researcher, Active & Healthy Cities, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, England
Cherie Morgan
Head of Strategy and Development, Play Scotland, Scotland
Tasniva Rahman Mumu
PhD student in Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK
Eddie Nuttall
Senior Playworker, Felix Road Adventure Playground, Bristol, England
Sabine Oberrauter
Project Assistant, Austrian Mobility Research, Austria
Elske Oost-Mulder
OBB, The Netherlands
Marta Palacios
Project Assistant, Austrian Mobility Research, Austria
Beata Patuszyńska
PR professional in the real estate sector, Warsaw, Poland
Sean Peacock
PhD researcher, Open Lab, Newcastle University, England
Sérgio Porto
Masters student in Architecture, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Daniel Rees-Jones
Play Development Officer, Scrapstore Play Services, Bristol, UK
Dr. Yupeng Ren
Lecturer, Yantai University, China
Aminah Ricks
Founder, Future Planners, NY City, USA
Jeff Risom
Chief Innovation Officer, Gehl, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Wendy Russell
Senior Lecturer in Play and Playwork at the University of Gloucestershire, and independent researcher, writer and consultant, England
Phil Royal
Campaign Manager, Children’s First Alliance, secretary for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood, UK
Taylor Sawyer
PhD Researcher, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Céline Schmidt-Hamburger
University of Bremen, Germany
Manuel Jacinto Sarmento
Associate Professor, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Wim Seghers
Play space policy consultant, City of Antwerp, Belgium
Yuanyuan Shi
PhD candidate, Department of Landscape Architecture, The University of Sheffield, England
Athina Georgiou Shippi
PhD Candidate, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Ingrid Skeels
Playint Out, and Room 13 Hareclive
Dr. Matt Smith
Senior Lecturer in Applied Theatre, University of Portsmouth, England
Dr. Maria Sokolova
Child psychologist, MSUPE, Moscow, Russia
Gareth Stacey
Play and Youth Support Team, Wrexham Council, Wales
Professor Alison Stenning
University of Newcastle, England
Anna Szilágyi-Nagy
Vice-president, kultúrAktív; PhD student, University of Tübingen, Germany
Sergey Tatarinov
Executive director, The Landscape Bureau AFA, Moscow, Russia
Ben Tawil
Ludicology, Wrexham, Wales
Gabriela de Pina Trevisan
Assistant Professor, School of Higher Education, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Joanne Ursell
Turner Contemporary Navigator, England
Arjan Vreugdenhil
OBB, The Netherlands
Simon Wasser
Senior Project Officer, Sustrans London
Sally Watson
PhD researcher, School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University, England
Debbie Watson
Professor of Child and Family Welfare,
Head of Children and Families Research Centre, University of Bristol, England
Holly Weir
Researcher, University of Westminster & The Young Foundation, London, England
Rob Wheway
Play Advisory Service, England
Rae Whittow-Williams
Principal Project Officer, Greater London Authority, London, England
Marie Williams
CEO of Dream Networks CIC, PhD Student at UCL, Institute of Global Prosperity, UK
Dr. Sara-Jayne Williams
Bristol; University of the West of England
Dr. Jenny Wood
Co-founder, A Place in Childhood (APiC); Research Associate, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Yvonne Wren
Director, Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit, North Bristol NHS, England
Conference Chair
Adrian Voce OBE
President, European Network for Child Friendly Cities
London, England