Early Childhood Education and Care - Newman University College

Staff Profiles
and Research
Interests
Dr. Gill McGillivray
Head of Early Childhood, Senior Lecturer
in Early Childhood
• PhD thesis: Practitioner to professional: de/re-constructions of
professional identity in the early years workforce
• PLEYIn: Play and Learning in the Early years for Inclusion - EU
Leonardo Lifelong Learning Partnership project in collaboration with
partners in Sibiu, Romania and Sieradz, Poland.
Karen Argent
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood
• PhD research investigates what guides Early Years practitioner choices
in their selection of picture books with a disability related theme
• PLEYIn: Play and Learning in the Early years for Inclusion.
Julie Boardman
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood
• Wellbeing in the context of Higher Education
• Child Development in the 21st Century.
Jane Beniston
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood
• Young children’s problem solving skills
• PLEYIn: Play and Learning in the Early years for Inclusion.
Christine Collett
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood
• SEN, Disability and Inclusion
• Behaviour Management
• PLEYIn: Play and Learning in the Early years for Inclusion.
Mark Cronin
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood
• Social Policy and the role of Men in ECEC
• Safeguarding with a focus on Children in Care and Care Leavers.
Dalvir Gill
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood
• Equality, Rights and Diversity
• Listening to Children
• Parental partnership policy
• Community Cohesion and Social Inclusion.
Dr. Teresa Harms
Programme Co-ordinator for MA Early Years,
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood
• Research into the everyday lives of children and families
• The Sociology of Childhood and the Family
• Demography and social change
• Research design and methods.
Deborah Harris
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood
• PLEYIn: Play and Learning in the Early years for Inclusion
• Music and how this supports children’s language development.
Deborah Steele
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood
• Background in public health and child health
• Arts and Health and Health Promotion
• How the arts can affect attitudinal and behavioural change in health
promotion to children and young people.
Allison Tatton
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood, Programme
Leader for Teaching and Learning Support
Assistants Foundation Degree
• Families who foster
• Development of early literacy skills
• PLEYIn: Play and Learning in the Early years for Inclusion.
Linda Treadwell
Programme Co-ordinator for Early Years
(non-school settings) Foundation Degree,
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood
• Sociological constructions of childhood
• Children’s early learning.
Prof. Margaret Clark
Visiting Professor in Early Childhood
• Left-handedness
• Literacy and Early Years Education.
Dr. Kehinde Andrews
Lecturer in Childhood and Early Childhood Studies
• How racism in the education system manifests in schooling policy
• Black supplementary schools, organised with African and
Caribbean communities
• Redefining the concept of Blackness so that it can used as a
resource for African and Caribbean families in order to overcome
racial discrimination.
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