ECRC Research Students

Staff and Student Members Currently Working towards their PhDs:

Chris Gomez – Comparing child rearing in England and Spain and impact on early years settings (Froebel Research Committee Bursary).
Lisa Guy - Rights of the Child.
Sally Howe – An investigation into the perspectives of teachers and children negotiating the transition between the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 (Froebel Research Committee Bursary)
Amy Palmer – The pattern of state pre-school educational provision in London from 1945 to the present
Jane Read - The Froebel movement and educational policy and practice 1900-1939
Michelle Louise-Westhead - The 'lived' experience of a cohort of education students' journey from classroom assistant to qualified teachers.
Ndeban Joof-Ndong - Preparedness of young children in the Gambia for formal schooling (Commonwealth Scholarship)

Recent Completions:

Fengling Tang (2008) – A comparative ethnographic case study of the early years' curriculum in Chinese and English settings
Veronica Perkins (2007) - Social Problem Solving: A Collaborative Approach to Citizenship Education
Hiroko Fumoto (2004) - Teacher-Child Relationships in MultiCultural Nursery Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions and Children’s Development.

Early Childhood Research Centre (ECRC)