Robyn is a former child with over half a century of experience in being playful. Her early years were spent building unsafe structures in gum trees in the bushland in the south of Sydney, Australia. Play followed her into adulthood and her work with children encompassed a move into teaching then into the OSHC sector where she remained for 28 years. Robyn has held representative leadership roles in Australian children’s services at a state and national level and her work as an advocate for Children’s Services was recognized with a Commonwealth Centenary medal. As a Board member of the International Play Association since 2011, Robyn was included in an international delegation in 2012 to the UN in Geneva for the development of the UN General Comment on Article 31 “The child’s right to play”. She is currently a Play Australia Board member and since 2017 President of the IPA. |
