Research Expertise
- Early childhood education (pedagogy/curriculum/policy/philosophy)
- Global childhood studies (children’s lives and childhoods)
- The role of philosophy and post-theories in education and methodology
- Post-structural, post-qualitative, posthuman, new materialism, new empiricism thinking
- International/comparative Education
Research Projects
Intercultural and transcultural competence through collaborative cultural expression
Work package leader with a consortium of 13 universities and arts organizations across Europe and the South Pacific. The project will develop global, regional and national educational frameworks and policy directives to advance cultural democracy.
Funding: A €3million award from the European Commission - Horizon Europe.
Empowering children's voices
This transdisciplinary project is developing child-centred methodologies and a toolkit that foster partnerships with children and promote their democratic participation.
Funding: University of Auckland Transdisciplinary Ideation Fund
Dialogues for socially just teaching and learning
COLAB: Collaborative Online Learning Across Borders: Dialogues for socially just teaching and learning (Collaboration with the University of Melbourne, the University of Tennessee, UPI and CUNY).
Funding: SEED & Global Catalyst Grant
Indoor environment quality and experiences of health and wellbeing of children and teachers...
Indoor environment quality and experiences of health and wellbeing of children and teachers in urban early childhood education centres (Collaboration with S. Arndt and Collingridge and Smith Architects).
Funded: Industry
Children’s cultural heritage – the visual voices of the archive
Children’s cultural heritage – the visual voices of the archive (with A. Sparrman (Linkoping University) and colleagues. Funded: Swedish Research Council.
Decolonising Western Science in Kenya
Paper Volcanoes Lab: Engaging Young Children with Earth Science (with S. Amici (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma - Italy).
Funded: International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics