Gillian Lake
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Dr Gillian Lake is an Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education and Chair of Postgraduate Studies by Research at DCU Institute of Education. She is also a Fellow of Advance HE, (FHEA) in the UK. She was a Primary Teacher in Ireland for many years before first undertaking an MSc in Child Development & Education (University of Oxford). She was then awarded the Elfrida Talbot Scholarship to undertake a Doctorate of Philosophy in Education at University of Oxford, focusing on language development and Early Childhood Education. She has continued to work in this area, both as a lecturer (DCU & Oxford Brookes University, UK) and a researcher. Her current research projects in the area of Early Childhood Education have allowed her to collaborate with industry (Expert Advisor to Child Paths Ltd), the early childhood sector and international research partners (collaborators here). She was recently invited to join the review panel for the International Journal of Early Years Education and is a regular reviewer for the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. Gillian was shortlisted for both the DCU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the DCU President's Award for Engagement in 2021. She is DCU's representative on the National Academic Integrity Network and has just secured SATLE Funding - €15, 000 (National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) for a project which is investigating Awareness of Academic Integrity across all DCU stakeholders.
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Lake, G.;Urban, M.;Giblin, F.;French, G.;Farrell, T. (2022) 'Making a difference in the real world. User-centred impact evaluation of an eight-country, community-based early childhood programme'. Evaluation and Program Planning, 92 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2021 | Gillian Lake (2021) 'Article to Action: Supporting Peer Mediated Intervention'. Young Exceptional Children, 24 (2):108-110. [DOI] | |
2019 | Lake, G;Evangelou, M (2019) 'Let's Talk! An interactive intervention to support children's language development'. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 27 :221-240. [DOI] | |
2022 | Lake, Gillian;Urban, Mathias;Giblin, Fiona;French, Geraldine;Farrell, Therese (2022) 'Making a difference in the real world'. Evaluation and Program Planning, . [DOI] |
Conference Contribution
Published Report
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Mathias Urban, Gillian Lake, Geraldine French, Fiona Giblin, Therese Farrell (2021) TOY for Inclusion Impact evaluation and policy recommendations. Executive summary. ICDI, . | |
2020 | Urban, M., Lake, G., French, G., Giblin, F. & Farrell, T. (2020) TOY to Share, Play to Care Impact evaluation and policy recommendations: Final report. International Child Development Initiatives(ICDI), . [Link] |
Newsletter
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Aoife Merrins Gallgher, Gillian Lake (2021) A Tale of Two Halves Collaboratively Supporting Children with English as an Additional Language (EAL). NEWSL [Link] |
Honors and Awards
Employment
Education
Enterprise Engagement
Outreach Activities
Research Interests
Emerging Literacy
Narrative Development
Pretend Play Early Years
Partnership in the Early Years
Enabling Parents in the Early Years
Evaluation research
Professional Development in the Early Years
Early Years Pedagogy
Chair of Postgraduate Studies by Research (PhD/Masters by Research)
In addition to the PhD Supervisees listed, I am supervising David Henson in his EdD at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Research Projects
External Collaborators
Teaching Interests
Child Development
Language Development
Early Education
Intervention Research
Research Methods
Psychology of Learning
Undergraduate and postgraduate research supervision