Sue Greenfield

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.

Contact availability

Sue is in the University from Monday to Thursday.
Office hours:
Tuesday 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Thursday 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Research Interests

Working with parents:
Parent-teacher relationships in early childhood settings
The feasibility of partnership with parents
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

Conference papers

Greenfield, S. (2007). Parents’ and carers’ perspectives on children’s creative thinking at home. Symposium on Autonomy, creativity and social relationships in early learning,
British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 6.9.07.

Robson, S. & Greenfield, S (2007) 'How do social relationships in early childhood settings support and influence children’s creative thinking?' Symposium on Exploring the contexts and conditions which facilitate children’s learning in the arts, European Early Childhood Education Research Association Conference, Prague 30.8.07.

Greenfield, S. (2006)'Parents and teachers perspectives on the way home visiting is carried out in early childhood settings' Symposium on Methodologies and early childhood research, British Educational Research Association, Warwick University 8.9.06.

Greenfield, S. (2006) Parent teacher partnership: can this be achieved without training? European Early Childhood Education Research Association: 16th Annual conference
on Democracy and Culture in Early Childhood Education. Reykjavik, Iceland, 1.9.06.

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 29.8.07