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The babies’ manifesto – a response from the Childhood, Youth and Families team


In a follow-up to her latest opinion piece for the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network, Dr Helen Simmons blogs about the UON perspective on the Manifesto for Babies that was…

14 June 2024

Representation Matters: Celebrating our Sisters


Professor Eunice Lumsden discusses how the events she was involved in as part of Black History Month 2023 led her to reflect on her first year as a professor, the…

13 December 2023

Empowering Futures: UON Graduate School’s Comprehensive Biannual Induction for Postgraduate Researchers


In October and March the Graduate School runs a mandatory 4-day postgraduate researcher (PGR) induction on campus at Waterside. This October we welcomed 31 new PGRs, who are now studying…

17 November 2023

Advanced Practice Week 2023: What Is It?


At Northampton we recently celebrated Advanced Practice Week which is a collaborative week to share best practice and learnings within many fields of the NHS.

16 November 2023

“But I can’t sing!!” The importance of nursery rhymes when working with children


For World Nursery Rhyme week, lecturers and students on the Early Childhood Studies course share their thoughts on why we need nursery rhymes and how these can be used to…

9 November 2023

An alternative education: The Free University London experience


In 2019-2020, Onur was involved in Free University London (FUL), a higher education (HE) initiative that provides free university-level modules to anyone interested. The project has been a rich source…

23 October 2023

Starting a business in Esports: Content Creator/Streamers Perspective


Over the last 5/10 years esports as an industry has expanded massively. Within this, content creation and streaming saw record numbers due to lockdown which exploded its growth. Within this…

22 September 2023

Infants and Parents in Mind


A long bike ride and a deep reflection.

9 June 2023

Chatter is priceless – it’s never too soon!


Dr Tanya Richardson, Senior Lecturer in Early Years, shares her thoughts on the importance of conversation with young children

11 May 2023

Human and Non-Human Animal Relationships in Education: Power and Violence


This reflective piece utilises storytelling methodology to recount and analyse one child’s love for a snail she had found one wet morning on the doorstep of our rural preschool setting.

20 March 2023

Black, (Un)Like Me: #Embrace Equity?


Dr Marcella Daye explores race equality and International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month.

9 March 2023

You talk about a level playing field, but the ground isn’t level!


Drawing from her own life experiences, Naomi argues that the only way institutional change can be made is through the provision of strategies that uplift marginalised and oppressed groups.

3 March 2023