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Putting oral language at the heart of early years education

In her TES article in July 2023, the now UK Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, emphasised oral language skills in her commitment to improving early years education. This is a...

(Re)focusing on high-quality early childhood education and care

Over the past 25 years, the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector in England has undergone significant transformations. As the evidence of its positive impact on children’s social and...

The importance of social security to children’s lives: Lessons from a mixed methods study of the two-child limit and the benefit cap

In recent years, stories of schools providing for children’s basic needs have become common. We hear that nearly one-in-five teachers has personally washed a school uniform; one-in-four has...

Special educational needs policy requires research infrastructure

Over the past 25 years, there have been successive policy changes to funding, categorisation and implementation of special educational needs (SEN) provision in England. Yet there is limited...

School-based early years provision: We need to know more about how to support effective leadership

Incoming policy In response to growing pressure on the early education and care system, the new Labour government is forging ahead with plans to create thousands of nursery places inside existing...

Creating a more equitable curriculum: Why and how education needs a reset

Adopting an equity approach in education is about confronting social class divides inside and outside the classroom and rebalancing the school curriculum to nurture all children’s talents. More...

The Creative Educator

Arts Based Educational Research SIG Webinar Series

The Creative Educator – How educators use the arts to enrich teaching practices and transform learning environments This webinar introduces arts based education research methodologies and...

The Creative Educator

The Creative Educator – How educators use the arts to enrich teaching practices and transform learning environments This webinar introduced arts based education research methodologies and...

Claudine Bowyer-Crane

Claudine Bowyer-Crane is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. She has a PhD in Psychology from the University of York. Claudine’s research focuses...

Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez

Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez is a research associate at the University of Sheffield, working on a project exploring the impacts of Covid-19-related disruptions on children’s language, socioemotional...

Elena Lisauskaite

Elena Lisauskaite is a senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth and Research Fellow for the ICICLES project. Before starting her current role, she was an economist at the National Institute...

Cristina McKean

Cristina McKean is Professor of Child Language Development & Disorders and a Senior Academic Research Leader at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Before joining the department and...