Speaker biography
Dr Naomi Lott
Lecturer in Law; Associate Fellow, School of Law, University of Reading
Dr Naomi Lott is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading, and Associate Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford.
Naomi the leading children’s rights scholar on the child’s right to play, having published the first legal monograph on the right ‘The Right of the Child to Play: From Conception to Implementation’ with Routledge in 2023. This monograph was hailed as ‘the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched study of a neglected but vital right’, and as ‘essential reading for anyone in law, public policy and decision making, anyone involved in the education of children or teachers, and all those whose decision making touches the lives of children’.
Naomi’s work on the right to play, including her framework for implementing the right to play – space, time, acceptance, rights-informed (published in the Human Rights Law Review in 2025), has been used has informed the work of policy actors and civil society organisations throughout the UK and internationally.
Naomi has supported a range of play initiatives, including as an Expert Commissioner to the Play Commission.