Voices From the Early Years: Children, Families, Professionals

Our 2024 Conference takes place at Aston University, Birmingham on Saturday 2nd November.

Throughout the day we will enjoy key note lectures from Dr Nathan Archer and Dr Mary Moloney, and research presentations focusing on the voices of children, families and professionals in early childhood education and care.

Our call for papers is open until 1st September 2024. If you would like to share your story, please visit: https://forms.gle/Vmyc3LZ5TXPiZNXZ7.

Dr. Nathan Archer is a researcher in early childhood education. He has a professional background as a Montessori teacher and has worked in early childhood education for over twenty years in practice, policy and research. Nathan completed a PhD at University of Sheffield in 2020 exploring the agency and activism of early childhood educators in England. Since then, he has undertaken research with Sutton Trust, Nuffield Foundation, Leeds Beckett University and University of Leeds.

Dr. Mary Moloney is a researcher, author and lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Care at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. She has more than twenty years experience of working in the early childhood field both as a practitioner and an academic. She is passionate about children's early education and care, inclusion and diversity (influenced by her work with refugees in Greece), policy, governance and, the professional identity and well-being of early childhood professionals.

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