In 2007, I embarked upon a PhD at Middlesex University to explore how best to support children and young people in their adventures and explorations, amid the restrictions imposed on them and us as professionals. It was through this work, and a Play Research Network meeting, that I discovered the NCB Library and Information Service. Now that I am writing up my thesis, I have become something of a fixture in the library, slowly pondering my way through their vast array of books and journals.
Amid the warm welcome, home-made cakes, unceasingly impressive and well-informed wit, intelligence and support of the staff, and the massive resource of materials, I have gratefully made a little study nest. As I engage with heady questions of social constructions of childhood and children's play, learning and empowerment, this spot has provided both vital resources and a comfortable location.
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