Karen is the Head of Department for Early Years Education at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Liverpool. Karen is passionate about ‘all things’ Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), particularly literacy, early reading and working with under-threes. Karen’s research interests are literacy, early reading, policy and pedagogy and under-threes. Karen also writes about and contributes to the field of child development, play and inclusion. Karen has been working in the ECEC field for 40 years+ as a practitioner/teacher/researcher, initially as an NNEB in nursery settings. Later in a wide range of schools/settings as a teacher/Senior Leader. Karen is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and a board member of the Early Years Hub. As Chair of TACTYC and many other international organisations, Karen is able to continue to advocate for the field of ECEC.
