Dominic Wyse is Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education at the Institute of Education (IOE), University College London (UCL). He is founding director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0–11 Years) (HHCP), a research centre devoted to improving young children’s education. Dominic was president of BERA from 2019 to 2022. The main focus of Dominic’s research is curriculum and pedagogy which includes a sustained contribution to knowledge about teaching writing, reading and creativity. Dominic has extensive experience of working at the interface of research, policy and practice, particularly in relation to his work on national curricula but also including his work on education as an academic discipline.