Liz Latto
Teaching Fellow in Childhood Practice
- Moray House School of Education and Sport, IECS
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: liz.latto@ed.ac.uk
- Web: ORCID Liz Latto
- Twitter: @liz_latto
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, SL
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
Liz Latto is a teaching fellow within the Institute for Education, Community and Society (IECS), University of Edinburgh. Prior to this she worked as a primary school and early years teacher within various local authorities in Scotland for 15 years. Liz is currently completing her doctorate investigating what influences practitioners’ perceptions of their professional identities, drawing on posthuman and feminist materialist theories. Her research interests include using posthuman, relational lenses to understand how structures of inequality are embedded and perpetuated within society.
Qualifications
PGDE (Primary), University of Edinburgh
MPhil Latin American Studies, University of Glasgow
BA (Hons) Applied Consumer Studies (Housing), Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh
Responsibilities & affiliations
Co-convenor SERA Early Years Network, 2019 - present
Undergraduate teaching
BA Childhood Practice Children and Childhoods Course Organiser
BA Childhood Practice Children and the Family Course Organiser
BA Childhood Practice Children's Health & Wellbeing Course Organiser
BA Childhood Practice Childhood Practice Research Project Supervisor
Postgraduate teaching
MSc Education (All pathways) Dissertation supervisor
Research summary
Using posthuman and feminist materialist theories to examine professional identities within Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) in Scotland and beyond.
I am also interested in how posthuman and feminist materialist thinking can help re-imagine research methodology to include materialities, affect and relationalities, working towards a more affirmative, generative and socially just research praxis.
Ovington, J. A., Albin-Clark, J., Latto, L. and Hawxwell, L. (Forthcoming). ‘Disrupting qualitative research. A bag-lady-narrative-methodology’ Routledge Encyclopedia of Research Methods.
Latto, L., Ovington, J., Hawxwell, L. Albin-Clark, J., Isom, P., Smith, S., Ellis, S., Fletcher-Saxon,J. (2022) Diffracting Bag Lady Stories and Kinship:Cartogra-ph-ying and Making-WithOthers in More-Than-Human Affirmative Spaces. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, Summer 2022, 14(1), pp. 152-165
Ovington., J., Albin-Clark, J., Latto, L., and Hawxwell, L. (2022). ‘Matter matters’: Knowledge-ing with kin through collective storytelling. Blog [online]. 10 January. Available from: http://pesn.co.uk/bagladies.
Albin-Clark, J., Latto, L., Hawxwell, L. and Ovington, J. (2021). ‘Becoming-with response-ability: How does diffracting posthuman ontologies with multi-modal sensory ethnography spark a multiplying femifesta/manifesta of noticing, attentiveness and doings in relation to mundane politics and more-than-human pedagogies of response-ability?’, entanglements, 4(1) pp. 21-31