Early Years Research, Policy and Practice Group

Our research group brings together students, researchers, practitioners, academics and policymakers from across the early years sector. We work together to make children’s rights real by strengthening and advancing early childhood research, policy and practice and the way they interconnect. Working together with children and young people, practitioners, and policy-makers locally, nationally and globally.

About us

Our Early Years Research, Policy and Practice Group’s vision and group members.

Interconnections between research, policy and practice

Research projects, community engagement, networks and local, national and global partnerships

Our vision

Our hopes, vision and future plans towards an interactive Early Childhood Research-Policy-Practice Space, our guiding principles and values and progress to date.

Teaching, CPD and PhDs

We are involved with teaching at all levels, with a focus on early childhood, children’s human rights, play, child-centred and post-human pedagogical approaches, Froebelian philosophy and practice and social justice.