Special Interest Group
The Children, Childhoods and Early Education (CCEE) SIG brings together researchers, practitioners, and students to explore and advance interdisciplinary understandings of children’s lives from early childhood through to later stages. It focuses on how children’s experiences, learning, development, and well-being are shaped by educational, social, cultural, and policy contexts, both in the UK and internationally.
Research interests include:
The SIG aims to:
BERA Children, Childhoods, and Early Education SIG Forum
Senior Lecturer at University of Derby
Dr Marco Antonio Delgado-Fuentes is a Senior Lecturer of Childhood and Education and works for the Institute of Education at the University of Derby. He has worked in other universities in Mexico and the UK. He has been an advisor for UNICEF, the...
Operations Director at University of Northampton
As an Operations Director for a small group of PVI early years settings, I bring a wealth of experience and expertise in the field of early childhood education. Currently pursuing my PhD, my research focuses on studying leadership in early years...
Senior Lecturer at University of Roehampton
I am a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies, Centre for Learning, Teaching and Human Development, School of Education, University of Roehampton. I had worked in schools and further education in China and a nursery school in London before I...
This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.
Like many headteachers in the state sector, I was excited in 2024 when the newly elected Labour government called for a curriculum and assessment review. Many of us in the primary phase (ages...
Continue reading blog post2025 marks 10 years of the BERA Blog, and we’re so proud of all that it has accomplished! Thank you to all those who have contributed to the Blog, whether as authors, editors, or readers. The...
Today, in 2025, as an Earthly community, we face the ongoing triple planetary crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Across the UK, and in many other...
The ‘Dear Researcher’ workshop that I facilitated at the 2024 BERA Conference, had developed through years of research working alongside children and young people as co-researchers. The...
Continue reading blog postIn this blog post I report on my Winston Churchill Foundation research fellowship study on the adultification of Black girls in state care in 2023 (Ikomi, 2024). Adultification can occur in a...
Continue reading blog postThis blog series celebrates one decade of the BERA Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...
The new Labour government has made a commitment to support the early years sector as well as launching a curriculum review. This presents us with an opportunity to revisit Labour’s 2007...
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