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Senior Lecturer - Early Childhood Studies, Year Head (Y2)

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3286
Email : S.Greenfield@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Education
Office location : Grove House 221

Qualifications

MA, Dip. HV

About

Sue Greenfield is a senior lecturer in Early Childhood Studies. She trained as a nurse and worked in hospitals for several years before training as a Health Visitor working in London and in Surrey. She later gained experience of nursery settings, and was responsible for a sixty place nursery in Surrey for a number of years.

Research Interests

Ways in which parents and staff work together to facilitate continuity between home and early childhood settings
Home visiting as a beginning of parent teacher partnerships

Publications

Greenfield, S. (2010) Working in multidisciplinary teams, in Miller, L. and Cable, C. Professionalization, Leadership and Management, London: Sage.
Greenfield, S. (2007) Parent’s views of the children’s creativity, CIRCLE symposium, Roehampton University.

Greenfield, S. (2006) Home visiting: The beginning of a Home School Partnership, Early Childhood Practice Journal , 8, 5-12.
Greenfield, S. and Robson, S. (2010) Contexts of Creative Thinking: Children’s and Parents’ Perceptions, 20th EECERA Annual Conference, Birmingham.
Greenfield, S. (2007) Parents’ and carers’ perspectives on children’s creative thinking at home., British Educational Research Association Annual Conference.
Greenfield, S. (2007) Parents’ and carers’ perspectives on children’s creative thinking at home, Fourth Roehampton Educational Research Conference.
Greenfield, S. Robson, S. (2007) How do social relationships in early childhood settings support and influence children’s creative thinking?, European Early Childhood Education Research Association Conference, Prague.
Greenfield, S. (2007) Do parents provide opportunities for creative thinking for children at home?, British Educational Research Association Annual Conference .
Greenfield, S. (2008) Autonomy, creativity and social relationships in early learning., Researcher-Practitioner Seminar, Oxford Brookes University.
Greenfield, S. (2006) Parent teacher partnership: can this be achieved without training?, European Early Childhood Education Research Association: 16th Annual conference .
Greenfield, S. (2006) Parents and teachers perspectives on the way home visiting is carried out in early childhood settings, British Educational Research Association, Warwick University .
Greenfield, S. (2005) Creating parent-teacher partnership through home visiting in early childhood settings: is there a need for training?, European Early Childhood Education Research Association Conference, Dublin.
Greenfield, S. (2011) Nursery home visits: rhetoric and realities, Journal of Early Childhood Research (in press).