Michelle M. Neumann is an Associate Professor in the field of early childhood education and is Deputy Leader of the Early Years Research Lab at Southern Cross University, Australia. Michelle has had over 10 years’ experience working as a primary and secondary school teacher and is a registered teacher with Education Queensland. Michelle was listed in 2020 and 2021 as lead researcher in Australia, in the field of Early Childhood Education by the Australian Government. Her research interests are in early childhood education, particularly in early literacy, child development and learning, parent-child interactions, home and preschool settings, touch screen tablets, and social robots. Michelle has research expertise in using a multi-method approach that incorporates qualitative and quantitative analysis. Michelle is co-investigator on an ARC Discovery project entitled “Parent involvement goes online: New ecologies of school-home relations”.