News Arresting The Trend – Early Career Teacher Retention January 19, 2023January 31, 2023 Senior Lecturer (Practice) in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 Activism as Leadership with Dr Jan Etienne October 10, 2022December 6, 2022 Supporting Early Years leaders to develop through digital professional learning September 5, 2022 Dates now released: Childhood and Society Seminar Series 2022 February 1, 2022February 1, 2022 CHILDHOOD AND SOCIETY SEMINAR: BEYOND MALE RECRUITMENT November 8, 2021November 12, 2021 Designing (for) Playful Higher Education: A Webinar Series September 26, 2021 Video: Portal-time and wander lines – What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (Professor Jayne Osgood, Childhood and Society Seminar) September 20, 2021 Dr Mona Sakr & Polly Crowther make the case for urgently developing leadership in the Early Years September 20, 2021 Childhood and Society Seminar with Professor Jayne Osgood: Portal-time and wander lines: What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (12pm London Time, 20th Sep, free, online) September 15, 2021March 17, 2022 CERS Newsletter September 2021 September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 Professor Paul Gibbs honoured as a modern heir to Newman and Mill August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 UALL Work and Learning Network Newsletter July 2021 July 27, 2021 Video: Challenging Negative Perceptions around the ‘African Child’ (Childhood and Society Seminar Series) July 14, 2021 Professor Jayne Osgood presents on the ‘mutated modest witness’ at SERA’s Early Years Network (video online) July 1, 2021 Video: Hybrid-Transitions as a Space for Children’s Agency. A Case-Study from a Pre-kindergarten in Boston. (Free, online seminar hosted on Monday 28th June 2021) July 1, 2021 Professor Jayne Osgood wins ‘Postgraduate Research Supervisor of the Year’ in the Middlesex University Student Union Awards July 1, 2021 Video: Feminism, Gender Justice and Resistance in Early Childhood Education (Professor Jayne Osgood) June 22, 2021 Video: Action Research in Education: An introduction with Dr Lynette Morris and Zahra Alizadeh, Monday 14th June 2021 June 16, 2021 Video: Down the Back of a Chair – What does a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s ‘Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’ offer conceptualisations of ‘the child’ in the Anthropocene? (Childhood and Society Seminar, Monday 14th June 2021, with Professor Victoria de Rijke and Professor Jayne Osgood) June 16, 2021June 19, 2021 Video: Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education – An introduction with Dr Mona Sakr (recorded seminar from Monday 17th May 2021) May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 Dr Gillian Lazar to present on academic literacies and staff pedagogic development at the Institute of Education, UCL May 11, 2021May 24, 2021 Dr Abele Longo to present on Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics at the University of Turin May 11, 2021May 24, 2021 Video: Storytelling in early years leadership: The power of sharing what we do April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 UALL Work and Learning Network Newsletter April 2021 April 19, 2021 Passionate Pedagogies: Educators Reading bell hooks Together. Extracts. April 19, 2021 Figuring gender in early childhood with animal figurines – pursuing tentacular stories about global childhoods in the Anthropocene. 12-12.45pm, Monday 19th April 2021 (free, online) March 29, 2021May 11, 2021 How do we tell the story of early years? The shortest survey you’ll ever complete. March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 Video online: Shaping curricula through pedagogical innovation: Facilitation of young children’s narratives in the classroom – a free online Childhood & Society seminar, Monday 22nd March 2021 March 15, 2021March 23, 2021 Video: ‘Worlding’ in Early Childhood Research: An interactive, introductory workshop with Professor Jayne Osgood March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Video online: Writing educational resources for publication – how and why? A free, online PEP seminar, Mon 15th March, 5-6.30pm March 10, 2021March 23, 2021 Seminar Video: Children as Architects of their own Education – An insight into Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics February 25, 2021March 10, 2021 MA Childhood and Education in Diverse Societies – now recruiting! February 22, 2021 New Article: Legal safeguarding for work-based learners in creative educational models by Elda Nikolou-Walker February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 UALL Work and Learning Network News, February 2021 February 17, 2021 ‘Strictly RE at Home’ – the National Association of Teachers of Religious Educations’ online conference February 9, 2021 Video: From multispecies tangles and Anthropocene muddles: what can lichen teach us about precarity and indeterminacy in early childhood? February 9, 2021February 25, 2021 Dates now released: Childhood and Society Seminar Series 2021 February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 Humanities 20:20 – A new vision for primary school February 4, 2021 Dr Jacqueline Hosts the Roundtable ‘Children and Mental Health’ at the Bright Start Conference February 3, 2021 Dr Jacqueline Harding works on the new BBC series for children ‘My Very First’ February 3, 2021 Event: ‘Uncovering Creative Intuitions’ – A webinar with Dr Gillian Lazar February 2, 2021 Collaborative Project: ‘Coming Back Stronger’ in Camden, London February 2, 2021 Using video annotation to explore reflective practice in teacher training January 28, 2021May 11, 2021 Early Years: Finding Our Voice – – transcript, briefing & video of the event January 22, 2021 Event: Silos and Synergies – Making the most of multidisciplinary Schools in HE January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 Congratulations Lee Jerome, Alex Elwick and Raza Kazim: Article highly commended in the BERJ Editors’ Choice Awards December 16, 2020 ‘Decolonising knowledge’ – watch the webinar given by Professor Jayne Osgood and Sid Mohandas December 11, 2020January 4, 2021 Watch Jayne Osgood’s keynote at the Early Childhood Voices 2020 Conference: Taking matter seriously: what can we learn from attuning to ‘stuff’ December 9, 2020 Watch out for financial cuts and reductions in the number of higher education places, says Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute November 24, 2020 7th International Conference on Professional & Practice-Based Doctorates: The Role of Practice in Doctoral Degrees, 23rd-26th February 2021 (online) November 23, 2020March 10, 2021 Early Years Leadership in a Post-Covid World – transcript, briefing & videos of the event November 18, 2020November 23, 2020 MDX joint top institution globally for work-based learning research, study finds November 16, 2020 New Journal Special Issue: Enhancing Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being: The Impact of Practice-based Research October 31, 2020 New Book: Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty, edited by Paul Gibbs, Jill Jameson & Alex Elwick October 31, 2020 New Book: Contemporary Thinking on Transdisciplinary Knowledge, edited by Paul Gibbs & Alison Beavis October 31, 2020 Event: Gender Matters in the Classroom – Free Middlesex University Webinar, 25th Nov 2020 October 31, 2020November 26, 2020 CERS Newsletter, July 2020: Read about our latest developments and activities October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 3rd World Congress of Transdisciplinarity. 2-6 November, 2020. Mexico City. October 16, 2020February 4, 2021 Event: Early Years Leadership in a Post-Covid World, 10th Nov 2020 October 8, 2020November 10, 2020 Special Issue: ‘Reimagining Childhood, Motherhood, Family and Community’ March 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Guest Lecture: Alternative Understandings About How Matter Comes to Matter in the Baby Room. Presented by Dr Jayne Osgood. February 16, 2020October 8, 2020 Guest Lecture: Jayne Osgood on Researching Gendered Childhoods in the Anthropocene: a PhEMaterialist Experiment February 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Presentation: Figuring gender in early childhood with animal figurines: pursuing tentacular stories about global childhoods in the Anthropocene February 3, 2020February 3, 2021 Event: What else does Haraway’s figure of the Mutated Modest Witness make possible in Early Childhood Research? January 3, 2020February 3, 2021 PhEMaterialist encounters with glitter: the materialisation of ethics, politics and care in arts-based research January 3, 2020February 3, 2021 CERS Newsletter, October 2019: Read about our latest activities and developments October 16, 2019October 16, 2020 New Book: Higher Education and Hope Institutional, Pedagogical and Personal Possibilities Editors: Gibbs, Paul, Peterson, Andrew (Eds.) April 30, 2019October 13, 2020 New Book: Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Art February 3, 2019February 3, 2021 New Research Report: ‘Musiceum’ – museums as spaces for early childhood music-making July 11, 2018October 8, 2020 New Book: ‘How to Survive in Teaching’ published by former CERS doctoral student January 15, 2018October 12, 2020 New Book: The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of HE January 3, 2018February 3, 2021 New Book: Universities in the Flux of Time January 3, 2018February 3, 2021 New Book: Transdisciplinary Higher Education January 3, 2018February 3, 2021 New Book: Thinking about Higher Education January 3, 2018February 3, 2021 New Book: Using Data to Improve Higher Education January 3, 2018February 3, 2021 New Book: Methodologies for Practice Research January 3, 2018February 3, 2021 Consultancy: ‘No more boys and girls’ – BBC Program August 14, 2017October 8, 2020 New Issue: Teaching Citizenship Journal – ‘The rise of the far right, Brexit and fundamental British values’ June 5, 2017October 12, 2020 New Chapter: ‘The Values of Savagery’ by Dr Victoria de Rijke May 3, 2017February 3, 2021 New Chapter: “Reimagining anti-bias as wordly entanglement” by Jayne Osgood, Red Ruby Scarlet, Awilda Longstocking, Jean de Clisson and Grain O’Malley November 3, 2016February 3, 2021 New Chapter: “Transmogrifying the maternal entanglements of feminist academics” by Professor Jayne Osgood July 3, 2016February 3, 2021 New Book: Equality in the Primary School July 3, 2016February 3, 2021
Senior Lecturer (Practice) in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education November 17, 2022November 17, 2022
Video: Portal-time and wander lines – What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (Professor Jayne Osgood, Childhood and Society Seminar) September 20, 2021
Dr Mona Sakr & Polly Crowther make the case for urgently developing leadership in the Early Years September 20, 2021
Childhood and Society Seminar with Professor Jayne Osgood: Portal-time and wander lines: What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (12pm London Time, 20th Sep, free, online) September 15, 2021March 17, 2022
Video: Challenging Negative Perceptions around the ‘African Child’ (Childhood and Society Seminar Series) July 14, 2021
Professor Jayne Osgood presents on the ‘mutated modest witness’ at SERA’s Early Years Network (video online) July 1, 2021
Video: Hybrid-Transitions as a Space for Children’s Agency. A Case-Study from a Pre-kindergarten in Boston. (Free, online seminar hosted on Monday 28th June 2021) July 1, 2021
Professor Jayne Osgood wins ‘Postgraduate Research Supervisor of the Year’ in the Middlesex University Student Union Awards July 1, 2021
Video: Feminism, Gender Justice and Resistance in Early Childhood Education (Professor Jayne Osgood) June 22, 2021
Video: Action Research in Education: An introduction with Dr Lynette Morris and Zahra Alizadeh, Monday 14th June 2021 June 16, 2021
Video: Down the Back of a Chair – What does a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s ‘Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’ offer conceptualisations of ‘the child’ in the Anthropocene? (Childhood and Society Seminar, Monday 14th June 2021, with Professor Victoria de Rijke and Professor Jayne Osgood) June 16, 2021June 19, 2021
Video: Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education – An introduction with Dr Mona Sakr (recorded seminar from Monday 17th May 2021) May 24, 2021May 24, 2021
Dr Gillian Lazar to present on academic literacies and staff pedagogic development at the Institute of Education, UCL May 11, 2021May 24, 2021
Dr Abele Longo to present on Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics at the University of Turin May 11, 2021May 24, 2021
Video: Storytelling in early years leadership: The power of sharing what we do April 29, 2021April 29, 2021
Figuring gender in early childhood with animal figurines – pursuing tentacular stories about global childhoods in the Anthropocene. 12-12.45pm, Monday 19th April 2021 (free, online) March 29, 2021May 11, 2021
How do we tell the story of early years? The shortest survey you’ll ever complete. March 24, 2021March 24, 2021
Video online: Shaping curricula through pedagogical innovation: Facilitation of young children’s narratives in the classroom – a free online Childhood & Society seminar, Monday 22nd March 2021 March 15, 2021March 23, 2021
Video: ‘Worlding’ in Early Childhood Research: An interactive, introductory workshop with Professor Jayne Osgood March 10, 2021March 10, 2021
Video online: Writing educational resources for publication – how and why? A free, online PEP seminar, Mon 15th March, 5-6.30pm March 10, 2021March 23, 2021
Seminar Video: Children as Architects of their own Education – An insight into Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics February 25, 2021March 10, 2021
New Article: Legal safeguarding for work-based learners in creative educational models by Elda Nikolou-Walker February 17, 2021February 17, 2021
‘Strictly RE at Home’ – the National Association of Teachers of Religious Educations’ online conference February 9, 2021
Video: From multispecies tangles and Anthropocene muddles: what can lichen teach us about precarity and indeterminacy in early childhood? February 9, 2021February 25, 2021
Dr Jacqueline Hosts the Roundtable ‘Children and Mental Health’ at the Bright Start Conference February 3, 2021
Using video annotation to explore reflective practice in teacher training January 28, 2021May 11, 2021
Event: Silos and Synergies – Making the most of multidisciplinary Schools in HE January 20, 2021January 20, 2021
Congratulations Lee Jerome, Alex Elwick and Raza Kazim: Article highly commended in the BERJ Editors’ Choice Awards December 16, 2020
‘Decolonising knowledge’ – watch the webinar given by Professor Jayne Osgood and Sid Mohandas December 11, 2020January 4, 2021
Watch Jayne Osgood’s keynote at the Early Childhood Voices 2020 Conference: Taking matter seriously: what can we learn from attuning to ‘stuff’ December 9, 2020
Watch out for financial cuts and reductions in the number of higher education places, says Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute November 24, 2020
7th International Conference on Professional & Practice-Based Doctorates: The Role of Practice in Doctoral Degrees, 23rd-26th February 2021 (online) November 23, 2020March 10, 2021
Early Years Leadership in a Post-Covid World – transcript, briefing & videos of the event November 18, 2020November 23, 2020
New Journal Special Issue: Enhancing Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being: The Impact of Practice-based Research October 31, 2020
New Book: Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty, edited by Paul Gibbs, Jill Jameson & Alex Elwick October 31, 2020
New Book: Contemporary Thinking on Transdisciplinary Knowledge, edited by Paul Gibbs & Alison Beavis October 31, 2020
Event: Gender Matters in the Classroom – Free Middlesex University Webinar, 25th Nov 2020 October 31, 2020November 26, 2020
CERS Newsletter, July 2020: Read about our latest developments and activities October 16, 2020October 16, 2020
3rd World Congress of Transdisciplinarity. 2-6 November, 2020. Mexico City. October 16, 2020February 4, 2021
Special Issue: ‘Reimagining Childhood, Motherhood, Family and Community’ March 8, 2020October 8, 2020
Guest Lecture: Alternative Understandings About How Matter Comes to Matter in the Baby Room. Presented by Dr Jayne Osgood. February 16, 2020October 8, 2020
Guest Lecture: Jayne Osgood on Researching Gendered Childhoods in the Anthropocene: a PhEMaterialist Experiment February 8, 2020October 8, 2020
Presentation: Figuring gender in early childhood with animal figurines: pursuing tentacular stories about global childhoods in the Anthropocene February 3, 2020February 3, 2021
Event: What else does Haraway’s figure of the Mutated Modest Witness make possible in Early Childhood Research? January 3, 2020February 3, 2021
PhEMaterialist encounters with glitter: the materialisation of ethics, politics and care in arts-based research January 3, 2020February 3, 2021
CERS Newsletter, October 2019: Read about our latest activities and developments October 16, 2019October 16, 2020
New Book: Higher Education and Hope Institutional, Pedagogical and Personal Possibilities Editors: Gibbs, Paul, Peterson, Andrew (Eds.) April 30, 2019October 13, 2020
New Research Report: ‘Musiceum’ – museums as spaces for early childhood music-making July 11, 2018October 8, 2020
New Book: ‘How to Survive in Teaching’ published by former CERS doctoral student January 15, 2018October 12, 2020
New Issue: Teaching Citizenship Journal – ‘The rise of the far right, Brexit and fundamental British values’ June 5, 2017October 12, 2020
New Chapter: “Reimagining anti-bias as wordly entanglement” by Jayne Osgood, Red Ruby Scarlet, Awilda Longstocking, Jean de Clisson and Grain O’Malley November 3, 2016February 3, 2021
New Chapter: “Transmogrifying the maternal entanglements of feminist academics” by Professor Jayne Osgood July 3, 2016February 3, 2021
