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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
The thesis takes an agential reading of documentation practices to trace the intra-activity within contemporary assessment discourses of early childhood education (ECE) and offers a material-discursive exploration of three teachers at work in one school in North West England. The research aims to reflect on the performativity of documentation to illuminate how assessment discourses are game ...
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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)
Educational Doctorate , PhD, University of Sheffield
1 Sep 2014 → 1 Aug 2019
Award Date: 1 Aug 2019
External Examiner, Leeds Beckett University
1 Sep 2016 → 20 Jun 2019Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review