January 30, 2026

Children Draw Playing - Journal article team leaders' meeting

 

Carolyn, Medhi, Belinda, Brendon and Sharynne 
Today was the first meeting for 2026 of the lead authors to write up our Children Draw Playing dataset and the journal article leads outlined their aims, data sets, team members and target journals and conferences. Thanks to Dr Carolyn Gregoric for preparing the data set and leading ~20 CVC members to analyse the data in 2025. Here are some of the proposed papers. The first one is almost ready to submit :)

  1. Children draw playing around the world: Carolyn Gregoric and Sharynne McLeod (leads) with 20 CVC affiliates as co-authors
  2. Children draw playing in Mongolia: Carolyn Gregoric (lead)
  3. Talking during play: Sharynne McLeod (lead)
  4. Concepts of play: Belinda Downey (lead)
  5. Why is drawing good for the world: Belinda Downey (lead)
  6. Drawing movement: How children depict and describe active play: Brendon Hyndman (lead) 
  7. PEO analysis: Mehdi Rassafiani (lead)  
  8. Cultural historical activity theory: Shukla Sikder (lead)