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Mathias Urban

PROF

Mathias Urban, PhD, is Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education, and Director of the Early Childhood Research Centre (ECRC) at Dublin City University, Ireland (DCU). He works on questions of early childhood policy related to diversity and equality, social justice, evaluation and professionalism in education and care systems for young children, families and communities in diverse socio-cultural contexts. Before joining DCU Mathias held the position of Froebel Professor of Early Childhood Studies and Director of the Early Childhood Research Centre at the University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom.

Mathias held positions as Professor of Pedagogy (professor II) at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and Affiliate Professor and Fellow at EDPolicyFORWARD: The Center for Educational Policy at George Mason University, VA, USA.

Mathias has more than 20 years experience in designing and leading international collaborative research projects. He has a well-established track record of publications in international peer-reviewed journals; his work has been classified as ‘world leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ in the context of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) of the United Kingdom.

Mathias was awarded the ‘Marianne Bloch Distinguished Career Award’ by the international Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education network in 2018, and the DCU President's Research Impact Award in 2020.

Mathias is the lead author of the 2018 (Argentina), 2019 (Japan), 2020 (Saudi Arabia), 2021 (Italy), 2022 (Indonesia), 2024 (Brazil), and 2025 (South Africa) G20/T20 early childhood development, education and care policy briefs, and a member of the European Commission expert working group on Early Childhood Education and Care.

He was President of the International Froebel Society (IFS) from 2016-2019.

Book

	Year	Publication
	2024	Gibbons, A.; Gaches, S.; Arndt, S.; Sapon-Shevin, M.; Murray, C.; Urban, M.; Tesar, M. (2024) Home in Early Childhood Care and Education. Conceptualizations and Reconfigurations. Switzerland: Cham.
	2016	Vandenbroeck, M., Urban, M. & Peeters, J. (2016) Pathways to Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care. London: Routledge.
	2012	Murrray, C. & Urban, M. (2012) Diversity and Equality in Early Childhood. Dublin: Gill& Macmillan.
	2011	Miller, L., Dalli, C. & Urban, M. (2011) Early Childhood grows up. Towards a critical ecology of the profession. Dordrecht and London: Springer.
	2010	Moss, P. & Urban, M. (2010) Democracy and Experimentation: two fundamental values for education. Guetersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung.
	2010	Urban, M. & Dalli, C. (2010) Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care: international perspectives. London: Routledge.
	2009	Urban, M. (2009) Early Childhood Education in Europe: Achievements, Challenges and Possibilities. Brussels: Education International – L’Internationale de L’Éducation.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2023	Urban, M. (2023) 'Vagabonds Efficaces—Effectively Changing the World from a Non-space' In: Home in Early Childhood Care and Education: Conceptualizations and Reconfigurations. UK : Cham: Springer International Publishing.
	2023	McCormack, M.; Silke, A.; Kearns, A.; O’Toole, L.; Stafford, P.; Stokes, T.; Urban, M. (2023) 'Pedagogies of hope. Exploring play opportunities for young children in an urban environment' In: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Friedrich Froebel. London : Bloomsbury.
	2023	Guevara, Jennifer; Urban, Mathias (2023) 'UNICEF: self-transformation in a reconﬁgured global childhood space?' In: International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition). Oxford : Elsevier. [Link] https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.01056-3
	2023	Guevara, J.; Urban, M. (2023) 'UNICEF: self-transformation in a reconﬁgured global childhood space?' In: International Encyclopedia of Education, vol. 1. Europe : Elsevier. [DOI]
	2022	Urban, Mathias (2022) 'The temptations of block play' In: Ireland's yearbook of education. Dublin : Education Matters.
	2022	Urban, Mathias (2022) 'Tales from A Thousand and One Nights? New stories for Early Childhood Education and Care' In: Ireland’s Yearbook of Education 2022. Dublin : Education Matters.
	2022	Urban, Mathias; Macha, Katrin (2022) 'Frühpädagogik neu denken' In: Halt(ungen) in Wandel - Qualität im Diskurs. Berlin, Germany : Deutscher Verein.
	2020	Urban, Mathias (2020) 'Common Good and Public Service. Crisis lessons for the future of early childhood education and care' In: Ireland's yearbook of education 2019-2020. Dublin : Education Matters.
	2019	Stefan Faas, Dagmar Kasüschke, Elena Nitecki, Mathias Urban & Helge Wasmuth (2019) 'Introduction' In: Globalization, Transformation, and Cultures in Early Childhood Education and Care - Reconceptualization and Comparison -. New York : Palgrave MacMillan.
	2019	Urban, Mathias; Gómez Muñoz, Diana Paola; Zárate Pinto, Germán Camilo (2019) 'Learning with and from Colombia: perspectives on rights-based early childhood policies' In: International Handbook of Young Children's rights. London and New York : Routledge. [Link]
	2019	Urban, Mathias; Cardini, Alejandra; Guevara, Jennifer; Flórez, Rita; Okengo, Lynette (2019) 'Early Childhood Development Education and Care: the future is what we build today' In: Realizing Education for All in the Digital Age. Tokyo : Asian Development Bank Institute. [Link]
	2018	Urban, Mathias (2018) '(D)evaluation of early childhood education and care? A critique of the OECDs International Early Learning Study' In: Improving the Quality of Childhood in Europe Volume 8. Brussels : Alliance for Childhood.
	2018	Hayes, Nóirín and Urban, Mathias (2018) 'Early Childhood Education and Care: where so much begins' In: In Search of Social Justice: John Bennett's Lifetime Contribution to Early Childhood Policy and Practice. London and New York : Routledge.
	2018	Urban, Mathias (2018) 'Reimagining Early Childhood Education and Care in Ireland' In: Ireland's Yearbook of Education. Dublin : Education Matters.
	2018	Urban, Mathias (2018) 'Gentle, passionate, and most of all persistent: John Bennett’s Influence on European Union ECEC Policy' In: In Search of Social Justice: John Bennett's Lifetime Contribution to Early Childhood Policy and Practice. London and New York : Routledge. [Link]
	2018	Urban, Mathias and Hayes, Nóirín (2018) 'Much has been achieved – but now is not the time for complacency' In: In Search of Social Justice: John Bennett's Lifetime Contribution to Early Childhood Policy and Practice. London and New York : Routledge. [Link]
	2016	Urban, M. (2016) 'Starting Wrong? The trouble with a debate that just won’t go away' In: Critical Examinations of Quality. Regulation, Disqualification and Erasure. New York : Peter Lang.
	2015	Urban, M. & Murray, C. (2015) 'Internationale samenwerking: onderlinge steun en solidariteit' In: Ruimte voor jong en oud. Professioneel omgang with diversiteit. Amsterdam : SWP.
	2015	Urban, M. (2015) 'Starting wrong? A critical perspective on the latest permutation of the debate on the quality of early childhood provision' In: Improving the Quality of Childhood in Europe (Vol. 5). Brussels : Alliance for Childhood European Network Foundation.
	2015	Urban, M. (2015) 'A pedagogy based on critical consciousness and democratic values' In: Tuscan Approach Learning for Early Childhood Education and Care. Activities, results and perspectives. Florence : Istituto degli Innocenti.
	2014	Urban, M. (2014) 'Learning from the Margins: Early Childhood Imaginaries, ‘Normal Science’, and the Case for a Radical Reconceptualisation of Research and Practice' In: Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education: Critical Questions, Diverse Imaginaries and Social Activism. New York : Peter Lang Publishers.
	2013	Urban, M. (2013) 'Sistemas competentes en la educación de la primera infancia' In: Primera infancia, lenguajes e inclusión social: una mirada desde la investigación. Bogotá : Universidad Santo Tomás.
	2013	Urban, M. (2013) 'Professionalitaet und Kompetenz in der fruehkindlichen Bildung, Betreuung und Erziehung: systemisch, politisch und dialogorientiert' In: VALIflex – les expériences. Personal mit niedriger Qualifizierung im non-formalen Bildungssystem. Luxembourg : Caritas.
	2012	Urban, M., & Dalli, C. (2012) 'A profession speaking - and thinking - for itself' In: Early childhood grows up: towards a critical ecology of the profession. Dordrecht and London : Springer.
	2010	Urban, M. & Dalli, C. (2010) 'Conclusion: Towards new understandings of the early years' profession: the need for a critical ecology' In: Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care. International perspectives. London : Routledge.
	2010	Urban, M. (2010) 'Duurzame verandering: professioneel leren in een kritische leergemeenschap' In: Permanent leren. Van zelfreflectie naar teamreflectie. Amsterdam : SWP.
	2010	Urban, M. (2010) 'Zones of Professional Development: arguments for reclaiming practice-based evidence in early childhood practice and research' In: Early Childhood Programs as the Doorway to Social Cohesion: Application of Vygotsky's Ideas from an East-West Perspective. Newcastle-upon- Tyne : Cambridge Scholars.
	2008	Urban, M. (2008) 'Wissenschaftliche Begleitung in kommunalen Netzwerken' In: Kommunale Netzwerke für Kinder. Ein Handbuch zur Governance frühkindlicher Bildung. Gütersloh : Bertelsmann Stiftung.
	2008	Urban, M. (2008) 'Critical Thinking in Forschung, Praxis und Politik: Der Joint European Master in Early Childhood Education and Care' In: Professionalisierung der Fruehpaedagogik. Opladen : Budrich.
	2005	Urban, M. (2005) 'Quality, Autonomy and the Profession' In: Questions of Quality - Proceedings of a Conference on Defining, Assessing and Supporting Quality in Early Childhood Care and Education. Dublin : Centre for Early Childhood Development & Education.

Edited Book

	Year	Publication
	2019	Faas, Stefan; Kasüschke, Dagmar; Nitecki, Elena; Urban, Mathias; Wasmuth, Helge (Ed.). (2019) Globalization, Transformation, and Cultures in Early Childhood Education and Care - Reconceptualization and Comparison -. New York: Palgrave MacMillan,
	2018	Hayes, Nóirín and Urban, Mathias (Ed.). (2018) In Search of Social Justice. John Bennett's Lifetime Contribution to Early Childhood Policy and Practice. London and New York: Routledge, [Link]

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2024	Macha, K.; Urban, M.; Lonnemann, J.; Wronski, C.; Hildebrandt, F. (2024) 'Making it explicit - Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a method to explore children’s perspectives on quality in German Early Childhood Education'. British Educational Research Journal, .
	2023	Macha, K.; Urban, M.; Lonnemann, J.; Wronski, C.; Hildebrandt, F. (2023) 'Children’s perspectives on quality in ECEC as a specific form of participation'. International Journal of Early Years Education, :1-15. [DOI]
	2023	Urban, M. (2023) 'Effective vagabonds? RECE in the micro- and macro-politics of critical early childhood scholarship'. International Critical Childhood Policy Studies, (Critical reflections and provocations from reconceptualist “elders”):28-31.
	2023	Urban, M.; Reikerås, E.; Eidsvåg, G. M.; Guevara, J.; Saebø, J.; Semmoloni, C. (2023) 'Nordic approaches to evaluation and assessment in early childhood education and care'. Global Studies of Childhood, 13 (3):200-216. [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]
	2022	Urban, M. (2022) 'Scholarship in times of crises: towards a trans-discipline of early childhood'. Comparative Education, 58 . [Link] [DOI]
	2022	Urban, Mathias; Guevara, Jennifer; Moss, Peter (2022) '¿PISA desde la cuna? El Estudio Internacional de Aprendizaje Temprano e implicancias para América Latina'. Educacao e Pesquisa, 48 (1). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-4634202248248362esp
	2021	Arndt, S.; Smith, K.; Urban, M.; Ellegaard, T.; Blue Swadener, B.; Murray, C. (2021) 'Reconceptualising and (re)forming early childhood professional identities: Ongoing transnational policy discussions'. Policy Futures in Education, 19 . [Link] [DOI]
	2021	Lake, G; Urban, M; Giblin, F; French, G; Farrell, T (2021) '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 . [DOI]
	2020	Moss, Peter & Urban, Mathias (2020) 'The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study: The scores are in!'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 18 (2):250-258. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949120929466
	2020	Arndt, Sonja; Smith, Kylie; Urban, Mathias; Ellegard, Tomas; Blue Swadener, Beth; Murray, Colette (2020) 'Reconceptualising and (re)forming early childhood professional identities: Ongoing transnational policy discussions'. Policy Futures in Education, . http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478210320976015
	2020	Moss, P.; Urban, M. (2020) 'The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study: The scores are in!'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 21 . [Link] [DOI]
	2020	Urban, Mathias; Gomez Munoz, Diana Paola; Zarate Pinto, German Camilo (2020) 'LEARNING WITH AND FROM COLOMBIA Perspectives on Rights-Based Early Childhood Policies'. ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF YOUNG CHILDREN'S RIGHTS, .
	2019	Urban, M. (2019) 'The Shape of Things to Come and what to do about Tom and Mia: Interrogating the OECD’s International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study from an anti-colonialist perspective'. Policy Futures in Education, 17 . [Link] [DOI]
	2019	Urban, Mathias (2019) '(E)Utopia: The Local, the Global and the Imaginary in Early Childhood Education'. GLOBALIZATION, TRANSFORMATION, AND CULTURES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE: RECONCEPTUALIZATION AND COMPARISON, .
	2019	Hayes, Noirin; Urban, Mathias (2019) 'Early childhood education and care Where so much begins'. IN SEARCH OF SOCIAL JUSTICE: JOHN BENNETT'S LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD POLICY AND PRACTICE, .
	2019	Urban, Mathias; Hayes, Noirin (2019) 'Much has been achieved - but now is not the time for complacency'. IN SEARCH OF SOCIAL JUSTICE: JOHN BENNETT'S LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD POLICY AND PRACTICE, .
	2019	Moss, P.; Urban, M. (2019) 'The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s International Early Learning Study: What’s going on'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 20 . [Link] [DOI]
	2019	Urban, Mathias (2019) 'The Shape of Things to Come and what to do about Tom and Mia. Interrogating the OECD's International Early Learning Study from an anti-colonialist perspective'. Policy Futures in Education, . [Link] [DOI]
	2018	Arndt S.; Urban M.; Murray C.; Smith K.; Swadener B.; Ellegaard T. (2018) 'Contesting early childhood professional identities: A cross-national discussion'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, . [DOI]
	2017	Urban, M. (2017) 'We need meaningful, systematic evaluation, not a preschool PISA'. Global Education Review, .
	2017	Urban, M. & Swadener, B. (2017) 'Democratic accountability and contextualised systemic evaluation. A comment on the OECD initiative to launch an International Early Learning Study (IELS)'. International Critical Childhood Policy Studies, .
	2017	Moss, P., & Urban, M. (2017) 'The OECD’s International Early Learning Study: what happened next'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, .
	2016	Urban, M. (2016) 'At Sea: what direction for critical early childhood research?'. Journal of Pedagogy, .
	2016	Urban, M. (2016) 'At sea: What direction for critical early childhood research?'. Journal of Pedagogy, 7 (1):107-121. [DOI]
	2016	Jones, L., Urban, M., Osgood, J. & Holmes, R. (2016) 'Reimagining Quality in Early Childhood'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, .
	2016	Urban, M. (2016) 'Editorial'. Journal of Pedagogy, .
	2016	Urban, M. (2016) 'Sufficiently well informed and seriously concerned? European Union policy responses to marginalisation, structural racism and institutionalised exclusion in early childhood'. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, .
	2016	Urban, M. (2016) 'Resisting ‘normal science’ in educational research'. Journal of Pedagogy, .
	2015	Urban, M. (2015) 'From ‘closing the gap’ to an ethics of affirmation. Reconceptualising the role of early childhood services in times of uncertainty'. European Journal of Education, .
	2014	Urban, M. (2014) 'Not solving problems, managing messes: competent systems in early childhood education and care'. Management in Education, .
	2014	Jones, L., Osgood, J., Urban, M., Holmes, M. & MacLure, M. (2014) 'Eu(rope): (Re)assembling, (Re)casting, and (Re)aligning Lines of De- and Re-territorialisation of Early Childhood'. International Review of Qualitative Research, .
	2012	Urban, M. (2012) 'Researching early childhood policy and practice: a critical ecology'. European Journal of Education, .
	2012	Urban, M. (2012) 'Editorial'. European Journal of Education, .
	2012	Urban, M., Vandenbroeck, M., Van Laere, K., Lazzari, A. & Peeters, J. (2012) 'Towards competent systems in early childhood education and care. Implications for policy and practice'. European Journal of Education, .
	2010	Urban, M. (2010) 'Rethinking Professionalism in Early Childhood: untested feasibilities and critical ecologies'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, .
	2008	Urban, M. (2008) 'Dealing with uncertainty: challenges and possibilities for the early childhood profession'. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, .
	2008	Urban, M. & Dalli, C. (2008) 'Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care'. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, .
	2025	Bowe, Andrea; Urban, Mathias; Staines, Anthony; Murray, Deirdre M. (2025) 'The relationship between below average cognitive ability at age 5 years and the childhood experience of school at age 9'. Frontiers In Public Health, 13 . [Link] [DOI]
	2025	Macha, Katrin; Urban, Mathias; Lonnemann, Jan; Wronski, Caroline; Hildebrandt, Frauke (2025) '(Mehr) Raum für Demokratie. Kinderperspektiven auf Partizipation in Kitas'. Frühe Bildung, . [DOI]
	2025	Bowe, Andrea K.; Urban, Mathias; Staines, Anthony; Murray, Deirdre M. (2025) 'The relationship between below average cognitive ability at age 5 years and the childhood experience of school at age 9'. Frontiers In Public Health, .
	2024	Macha, K.; Hildebrandt, F.; Wronski, C.; Lonnemann, J.; Urban, M. (2024) 'Making it explicit – Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care'. British Educational Research Journal, . [Link] [DOI]
	2024	Macha, K.; Urban, M.; Lonnemann, J.; Wronski, C.; Hildebrandt, F. (2024) 'Children’s perspectives on quality in ECEC as a specific form of participation'. International Journal of Early Years Education, 32 . [Link] [DOI]
	2024	Moss, P.; Urban, M. (2024) 'The organisation for economic co-operation and development's international early learning and child well-being study: Here we go again!'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 25 . [Link] [DOI]
	2024	Urban, M.; Gómez Muñoz, D.P.; Zárate Pinto, G.C. (2024) 'Alliances for change: Conversations across the abyssal line'. Global Studies of Childhood, 14 . [Link] [DOI]

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2007	Urban, M. (2007) 'Strategies for Change: reflections from a systemic, comparative research project' .

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2022	Urban, Mathias; Reikerås, Elin; Eidsvåg, Gunnar Magnus; Guevara, Jennifer; Saebø, Janken; Semmoloni, Carolina (2022) Nordic approaches to evaluation and assessment in early childhood education and care. Final report. Nordic Council of Ministers, . [Link] http://dx.doi.org/10.6027/temanord2022-512
	2022	Urban, M., Guevara, J., Cardini, A., Acosta, A.; Vargas-Barón, E., Costín, C., . . . Pangastuti, Y. (2022) Education for Survival. Strengthening multi-sectoral and integrated policy approaches to early childhood education, care, and development as a global common good. T20 Indonesia, . [Link]
	2021	Urban, M., Guevara, J., Cardini, A., Acosta, A., Vargas-Barón, E., Costín, C., . . . Priyono, D. (2021) How do we know goals are achieved? Integrated and multisectoral early childhood monitoring and evaluation systems as key to developing effective and resilient social welfare systems. T20 Italy, . [Link]
	2020	Blofield, M.; Braunstein, J.; Filguiera, F.; Grimalda, G.; Urban, M. (2020) Promoting Social Cohesion during Pandemics. Think 20 Task Force 4 Social Cohesion and the State. T20 Saudi Arabia, . [Link]
	2019	Urban, Mathias; Cardini, Alejandra; Guevara, Jennifer; Flórez, Rita; Okengo, Lynette (2019) Early Childhood Development Education and Care: The Future is What We Build Today. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) / T20 2019, . [Link]
	2018	Urban, Mathias; Cardini, Alejandra, Flórez Romero, Rita (2018) It Takes More Than a Village. Effective Early Childhood Development, Education and Care Services Require Competent Systems. T20 Argentina, . [Link]
	2017	Urban, M., Robson, S., & Scacchi, V. (2017) Review of Occupational Role Profiles in Ireland in Early Childhood Education and Care. Early Childhood Research Centre (ECRC), .
	2015	Urban, M. & Rubiano, C. (2015) Privatisation in Early Childhood Education. An explorative study on impacts and implications. Education International, .
	2011	Urban, M., Vandenbroeck, M., Van Laere, K., Lazzari, A. & Peeters, J. (2011) Competence requirements in early childhood education and care. Research documents. European Commission, .
	2011	Urban, M., Vandenbroeck, M., Van Laere, K., Lazzari, A. & Peeters, J. (2011) Competence requirements in early childhood education and care. Final report. European Commission, .

Blog

	Year	Publication
	2020	Urban, Mathias & Moss, Peter (2020) A testing challenge for early childhood. BLOG [Link]
	2018	Urban, Mathias (2018) You say you want a revolution. Dublin: BLOG [Link]
	2015	Urban, M. (2015) Cui bono? The myth of the closing gap and the need for radical reconceptualisation of early childhood research. BLOG

Online Article

	Year	Publication
	2015	Urban, M. (2015) A Competent System?. ELEA

Editorial

	Year	Publication
	2019	Hayes, Noirin; Urban, Mathias (2019) In Search of Social Justice John Bennett's Lifetime Contribution to Early Childhood Policy and Practice Preface. ED
	2019	Urban, Mathias; Milotay, Nora (2019) Gentle, passionate and, most of all, persistent John Bennett's influence on European Union ECEC policy. ED
	2019	Faas, Stefan; Kasueschke, Dagmar; Nitecki, Elena; Urban, Mathias; Wasmuth, Helge (2019) Globalization, Transformation, and Cultures in Early Childhood Education and Care Reconceptualization and Comparison PREFACE. ED

Electronic Source

	Year	Publication
	2021	Moss, Peter; Urban, Mathias (2021) El Estudio Internacional sobre Aprendizaje Temprano y Bienestar Infantil de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico: ¡Ya están los resultados!. São Paulo, Brazil: ELES [Link]

Other Publication

	Year	Publication
	2023	Urban, M. (2023) The times they are a-changing. A call for integrated and multi-sectoral early childhood systems. [Link]
	2018	Urban, M. (2018) Editorial. [Link] [DOI]
	2024	Arndt, S.; Urban, M. (2024) Themed issue: Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education. [Link] [DOI]

Professional Associations

Association	Function	From / To
Comparative and International Education Society	Chair, special interest group 'early childhood development'	-
American Educational Research Association (AERA)	Member	-
Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education (RECE)	Steering Group	-

Honors and Awards

	Date	Title	Awarding Body
	01/01/2018	Marianne Bloch Distinguished Career Award	Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education (RECE)
	01/06/2020	President's Award for Research Impact	Dublin City University

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	Child Rights Connect Working Group on Children and the Right to Education		-
	European Commission Working Group on Early Childhood Education and Care		-
	Think Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC)		-
	Research and Policy Committee - Think Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC)		-

Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	University of Roehampton	Professor of Early Childhood Studies	-
	University of East London	Reader in Education	-

Research Interests

Policy and practice in early childhood development, care and education
International comparative research
Systems research

Research Projects

Title	Role	Start date	End date
Reconceptualising Early Childhood Development, Education and Care	DCU PI	01/05/2019	30/09/2019
Consortium meeting to develop a proposal to the Horizon Europe call ''HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-06''	DCU PI	18/02/2025	17/08/2025
Policy briefing on 'Global Education in ECEC: practice, provision and policy'	DCU PI	01/09/2022	30/11/2022
TOY to Share, Play to Care	DCU PI	31/01/2019	30/01/2021
Exploratory Research on Public Early Years Model of Childcare	DCU PI	02/01/2023	30/06/2023
From marketised models to competent systems for the public good- an interdisciplinary response to critical questions of early childhood education and care in Ireland	DCU PI	13/01/2025	12/01/2026
Review and evaluation og the StartBright Way and StartBright as a model of best practice	DCU PI	01/02/2025	30/06/2025
Research project on the Nordic approach to evaluation and assessment in early childhood education and care	DCU PI	01/01/2021	31/12/2021
Commonwealth Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Toolkit Update	DCU PI	12/08/2021	30/09/2021
Hill Street Family Resource Centre programme evaluation	DCU PI	01/12/2019	30/06/2020
Marketisation Evolvement: Questions, Answers and Challenges	DCU PI	01/09/2024	31/08/2027
Reflecting Cultures of Education - Transnationality and Cultural Awareness in Early Childhood Education Program	DCU PI	01/02/2022	31/01/2025
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Systems for Justice and Equity	DCU PI	01/05/2023	30/04/2024
ILO Policy Guidelines on the promotion of decent work for early childhood education personnel	DCU PI	15/05/2023	30/11/2023
Resilient Early Childhood Education, Care and Development Systems	DCU PI	01/03/2021	30/11/2021
Froebelian Principles in the 21st Century: Play environments and play opportunities for young children experiencing stress	DCU PI	01/03/2020	28/02/2023
Reconceptualising early childhood development, education, and care	DCU PI	04/01/2023	03/01/2024
Development of INFORM Strategic Plan	DCU PI	11/06/2021	10/01/2022

Current Postgraduate Students

Student Name	Degree	Supervision
Liu ,Weiyi	PhD	Supervisor
Alshehri ,Arwa	PhD-track	Supervisor
Byrne ,Colette	Master of Arts	Supervisor
Gillic ,Cora	PhD-track	Supervisor
Silke ,Aishling	PhD-track	Supervisor
Binabdulrahman ,Hibah	PhD	Supervisor
Callaghan ,Patsy	PhD-track	Supervisor
Gomez Munoz ,Diana Paola	PhD	Supervisor
Smyth ,Lynda	PhD	Supervisor
Clarke ,Joni	PhD-track	Supervisor
Zarate Pinto ,German Camilo	PhD	Supervisor
Turpin ,Gloria	PhD	Supervisor

External Collaborators

Type	Name	Company	Role
External	Susanne Garvis	Gothenburg University	Academic
External	Helge Wasmuth / Elena Nitecki	Mercy College, NY	Academic
External	Dagmar Kasüschke	Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch-Gmünd	Academic
External	Clara Rubiano	University of Roehampton, London	Academic
External	Ibrahim Talaee	Tabiat Modares University Tehran	Academic
External	Beth Blue Swadener	Arizona State University	Academic
External	Eva Marianne Johansson	University of Stavanger	Academic