Tim Gill is an independent scholar, writer, and consultant based in London, and a leading global authority on children’s outdoor play and mobility. He is the author of Urban Playground: How child-friendly planning and design can save cities (a RIBA Publishing bestseller) 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”).

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Tim is a Design Council Ambassador and an Honorary Research Fellow with the University of Exeter. A former head of the Children’s Play Council (now Play England), in 2003 Tim was seconded to the civil service to lead a government review into children’s play.

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Tim is a Churchill Fellow, and holds degrees in philosophy and psychology from Oxford and London Universities and an honorary doctorate in education from Edge Hill University. He is an honorary patron of the UK Forest School Association. His website is www.rethinkingchildhood.com.