The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Verity's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Verity
I am a Professor in Early Childhood Education and Director of Plymouth Institute of Education. I teach on the BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies, the MA Education and the EdD, along with supporting PhD students.
I am an active researcher, currently undertaking a project exploring Child-centred Diversity in Quality Early Childhood Education and care , which has been extended to look at developing a child-centred competences framework. I am also the Principal Investigator on a project looking at graduate qualifications for working in Early Childhood Educations and Care in England and another looking at childminder sustainability.
Prior to this I was a European Research Fellow in the Faculty of Child and Adult Education at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. Whilst in Hungary I conducted a research project on the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudinal Competences for Quality Early Childhood Education and Care.
Supervised Research Degrees
Mehmet Mart - A Comparison of English and Turkish Early Years Kindergarten Teachers' Understandings of and Practices in Outdoor Activities
Louise Webber - Mature Women and Higher Education: Reconstructing Identity and Family Relationships
Current Students:
Tom Cowan - The identification of dispositions and their contribution towards ITE and future primary school teachers
Kathrin Paal - Learning a(l)lot - The impact of school gardening on pre-schoolers´ environmental attitudes, behaviour, and knowledge
Ramazan Merk - The effects of school policies regarding inclusive education on early childhood teacher’s beliefs and practices: A multiple case study in England
Clare Colton - An exploration into the language of social work and how this develops in social work students: Is it the language of power?
