Adelaide University: Positive Experiences at Playgroup
Adelaide University
Why playgroup Quality Matters?
Playgroups are relational, community-based settings where children, parents, and carers participate together. Positive experiences are shaped through the conditions that make participation safe, welcoming, predictable, meaningful, and connected.
Meet Our Team
Children
Opportunities for play, interaction, confidence, and shared learning.
Parents and carers
Opportunities for connection, confidence, peer support, and responsive parenting.
Communities
Opportunities to strengthen belonging, inclusion, local networks, and service connections.
Craig Bradbrook
Chief Investigator
craig.bradbrook@adelaide.edu.au
Prof Sally Brinkman
Primary Supervisor
sally.brinkman@adelaide.edu.au
Dr Susie Raymond
Secondary Supervisor
susie.raymond@adelaide.edu.au
Positive experiences at playgroup:
This project treats quality as a causal architecture: a set of interacting conditions, practices, relationships, and system supports that work together to achieve positive experiences at playgroup.