Elisavet Pasidi is a PhD candidate at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and a Research Master’s in Child Development and Education from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Alongside her academic training, she has extensive hands-on experience with children, including work as a preschool educator, a children’s party entertainer (clown performances), a childcare provider, a playworker, and a child camp leader.

In her interdisciplinary PhD project, “Give Risk Some Space! Exploring Children’s Risky Play in Neighborhood Public Spaces”, Elisavet leverages her background in child-related studies in conjunction with urban geography, specifically emphasizing the field of children’s geographies. She investigates how both physical and social aspects of residential environments influence children’s risky play, centering children's active participation in research. The overall aim of the project is to inform child-friendly urban design and parenting practices that encourage and support neighborhood risky play.