Tim Gill is a global advocate for children’s outdoor play and mobility, and an independent scholar, writer, and consultant. He is the author of Urban Playground: How Child-friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities (RIBA Publications) and No Fear: Growing up in a risk-averse society (described in the New York Times as “a handbook for the movement for freer, riskier play”). Tim Gill’s consultancy clients include public bodies and NGOs in the UK and overseas, and he has spoken to audiences in over 25 countries across six continents about childhood and children’s play. A former director of the Children’s Play Council, in 2003 he was seconded to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to be lead reviewer for the Dobson Review regarding children’s play. Gill has studied child-friendly urban planning in North and South America, the Middle East and Europe. He holds degrees in philosophy and psychology from Oxford and London University, an honorary doctorate in education from Edge Hill University, and is an honorary patron of the UK Forest School Association. Gill writes for mainstream media, trade and academic publications, and appears regularly on radio and television. His website is: www.rethinkingchildhood.com.