Anna is a Research Fellow and a Doctoral Researcher, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via the SeNSS Network.

Anna's PhD project investigates the opportunities that children aged 3-7 from different socioeconomic backgrounds have to access the outdoors during their day at nursery or primary school and how this impacts their sense of nature connection and pro-environmentalism. Using a participatory-informed methodology, Anna is working with children and stakeholders from a range of early years and primary educational institutions. She is investigating how enabled children are to engage with nature, in the face of austerity and neoliberal ideologies that have simultaneously reduced state intervention in the provision of childcare and education, but increased state surveillance through the regulatory landscape, in contrast with the more autonomous and privileged environments of the private sector.