I am a qualified teacher with a specialism of working with young children. I have taught in Leeds and Bury as a teacher in Nursery, Reception, Year 1, 2 and Year 3. I have held the role of Deputy Headteacher. I then moved to work as a advisor for Early Years working with Bury where I also worked in a Nursery School and Children's Centre as a Senior Teacher. I then moved into university teaching whilst at the same time being a pedagogue to Chiildren's Centres in Knowsley. At the present time I work for Edge Hill as a senior lecturer where I teach on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. 

After I completed my doctorate I am developing my identity as a researcher in the field of Early Childhood Education with a specialism in documentation practices.

Documentation practices in ECE Ed Doctorate awarded 2019, The University of Sheffield, supervised by Professor Elizabeth Wood and Dr Liz Chesworth ‘What forms of Material-Discursive Intra-Action are generated through Documentation Practices in Early Childhood Education?  http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/24584

• 1. Post human theoretical approaches in ECE Education
  2. Emotions and teacher-child-parent relationships
  3. Pedagogical documentation

Research Group(s)

Research apprenticeship Identities in transformation: A life history investigation of teachers at different stages in their careers. Dr Clare Woolhouse, Dr Ian Shirley, Maggie Webster (2014-2017)

Playing and problematising in the methodological sandpit of the posthuman in ECE. Dr Nikki Fairchild, University of Chichester, Dr Ian Robson, Dr Donna Carlyle, Northumbria University (2019-present)

Ethical Uncertainty in New Materialist Research Methodologies Dr Liz Chesworth. University of Sheffield (2019-present)

1. Teaching – Undergraduate, Postgraduate QTS, ECE Specialist, Research Specialist