Marilyn Fleer holds the titles of Australian Research Council Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow (2018–2024), and Sir John Monash Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Monash University. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at the University of Oxford, an Honorary Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark, and previously a Second Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (2018–2023). She was awarded the 2019 Ashley Goldsworthy Award for outstanding leadership in university–business collaboration and 2022 Honour roll of Women in Victoria, Australia (Change agent).

• 1. What is play?; 2. Children's perspectives on play; 3. Families at play; 4. Digital play; 5. Playing in schools; 6. Lenses on play: post-structuralist and feminist analyses of children's play; 7. Lenses on play: cultural-historical conceptions of play; 8. Play in the curriculum; 9. Conceptual PlayWorlds: play-based learning and intentionality; 10. Planning for play development; 11. Assessment through, of and for play; 12. Being a play activist and play leader.

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