CREC MA in Education Tutors
Prof. Chris Pascal
Prof. Chris Pascal is CREC's Director, she has done extensive work at government level to support the development of early years policy; sitting on a number of national committees. She has served as a ministerial advisor and as an Early Years Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Education . She has written extensively on early childhood development and the quality of early education services. She is the President of the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA).
Prof. Tony Bertram
Prof. Tony Bertram is CREC's Director. He has been a member of the Ministerial Early Education Advisory Group (EEAG), which advised the government on the development of the Foundation Stage curriculum. He has a particular interest in cross-national, European early childhood projects and has worked extensively abroad for the British Council and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD). He is the Co-ordinating Editor of the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal (EECERJ).
Dr Helen Lyndon
Dr Helen Lyndon is CREC's Director and Postgraduate Programme Lead at CREC. She taught initially in primary-school education, then undertook a Master’s degree in early years education whilst teaching in children’s centres. She went on to work in higher education on undergraduate and postgraduate courses relating to early childhood education. Her doctoral research, focuses on pedagogic mediation.
Debi Keyte-Hartland
Debi Keyte-Hartland is an independent early childhood consultant working extensively across the UK and internationally. She specialises in expressive arts and design and the creative and reflective pedagogies which support young children’s thinking, enquiry and flourishing. She is an associate consultant with Early Education and worked as part of the collaborative team developing Birth to Five Matters. She is currently part of the research team on an ESRC funded project researching participatory pedagogies as part of the Children's Participation in Schools project in Wales and is a pedagogical coach-mentor on SPACE to Flourish - Supporting Pedagogy in Art and Creativity in Early Years - funded by the Mercers’ Company. She undertook her Masters degree in Early Childhood Education researching young children’s approaches to graphicacy. She has written about art and ecological research with young children.
Kate Comberti
Kate Comberti is a violinist and research practitioner using improvisation to work through musical play in a variety of settings from early years to people living with dementia and their carers. Currently she is mentoring CREC MA Year 1 students preparing to submit their small scale project assignment.