I enjoy exploring the relationship between psychology and education, and consider myself very fortunate to be able to lecture on relevant issues and topics. While I am an advocate for continuing learning across all ages of the human lifespan, I believe that everyone should be able to access high-quality learning experiences in the earliest years of life.<\/p>\n
I spent many happy years working in early years settings and primary schools before becoming a lecturer in further, community and higher education. In addition to having various leadership roles in the sector, I’ve also led on overseas volunteering and fundraising projects with students. The latter has focused mainly on supporting marginalised communities in education and health and social care initiatives in the Philippines.<\/p>\n
My experiences working with families and teachers from garbage dumpsite communities in the Philippines, for whom education is a life-changing privilege, have inspired both my Master’s research in Psychology and my PhD. Within the School of Education and Science, I am actively engaged in fostering international partnerships for educational development.<\/p>\n
I currently teach across several undergraduate courses in the education portfolio, including BA (Hons) Education; BA (Hons) Education, Inclusion and SEN; and BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Although I have worked in education for over 20 years, I continue to be amazed by how much there is to learn. I am a lifelong learner at heart who is dedicated to enhancing education through academic leadership, research and community engagement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":129000006366,"parent":0,"template":"","schools":[148],"subject_area":[],"staff_tag":[69],"class_list":["post-11562","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schools-education-health-sciences","staff_tag-ohdeducation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/11562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"schools","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/schools?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"subject_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject_area?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"staff_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_tag?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}