 My name is Linda Flouright-Pepper and I'm a full-time PhD student in the School of Wellness, Education, Languages and Sport. My research is about children's experiences of physical activity and in particular I'm working with 7-11 year old co-researchers so that they are an integral part of the research and the study. The subject is really important to me for a couple of reasons. First of all, I've spent a career in community sport and recreation and we've failed to actually stop the fallout of children as they enter into adolescence from being physically active and the second is that our public dialogue about physical activity has become to mean sport and sport isn't the answer for all children. One of the key things that's happened through my research which has inspired me was a moment when one of my very youngest co-researchers, a 7-year-old, when I asked him what it was that he liked about climbing, he looked at me and said it's in order to climb and pick the coconuts and I stepped back and looked at his tiny garden and realised that what was happening in the flesh was actually happening in a much more interesting way in his mind and in his creativity. That experience has gone on to inform the rest of my research in a very real way and what is unfolding is the amount of imagination that is driving children's physical activity and driving their fun and enjoyment and that fun enjoyment is going to be key to laying down positive memories that will take them through adolescence and long into their adulthood. I think my research is important to other people. Firstly, to demonstrate what experts children are in their own lives and how they are able to be perfectly capable of contributing to really authentic research processes. The co-researchers that I've been working with have not only been collecting their own data over a thousand photographs and 200 sets of video but they've also been able to take a look at their own data and start to analyse it and identify key headings and descriptions that start to talk about the why they like to be active and not just the what. What I'd like to achieve in the field is to bring young people's voices to policy and practice in a much more regular way so that my research isn't unusual and that we do speak to the experts who are the young people experiencing physical activity on a day-to-day basis.