Jane Murray

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

CO-DIRECTOR: CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

CURRENT SUPERVISION:

Debbie Bailey

Perspectives on change in specialist provision for pupils with SEBD 1996 – 2016

Claire Dugan-Clements

Perceptions of Age in Early Childhood Settings and their Communities: How do young children view people aged 55 and over? How do people aged 55 and over view young children?

Ayse Gursel

Leadership and Professional Development … the views of school leaders in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Eucharia McCarthy

A critical investigation into Inclusion Co-ordinators' (InCos') perspectives and experiences of implementing their role in pre-school settings in the mid-west of Ireland.

Yahya Moalin

Perspectives from the UK Somali Diaspora on the ways Peace Education may support the National Reconciliation Process in Somalia: An exploratory case study

Jessica Newcombe

Peer Mentoring Secondary School students with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) 

Sumathi Ravindranath

An investigation into the nature and extent to which methods taught during Montessori teacher training in Bangalore are applied by teachers in Montessori and mainstream schools

Tanya Richardson

What constitutes a quality learning environment with regards to speech and language development for young children and how do factors in learning environment influence the characteristics of utterances made by young children?

Sally Sharp

Mental health and wellbeing in Higher Education

Eleonora Teszenyi

Perception and Practice - An Exploration of Hungarian Kindergarten Pedagogues' Views and Practice in Mixed-Age Groups

Emma Whewell

Primary PE teachers' self-image and professional identity

Yu Zhao

An Investigation of Experiences of Pupils with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and School Provision during the Transition between Educational Phases in England

PhD COMPLETIONS:

Elaine Batchelor PhD

Primary Trainee Teachers’ Talk with Primary School Science Co-ordinators: Two Case Studies of Primary Trainees Learning to Teach Science

Wen Chen PhD

Students aged 3-6 years with special educational needs working in second language environments

Helen Trory PhD

A Balancing Act: Perceptions of communication about young children with SEND in the early years. An IPA Study.

Jane Murray PhD is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Education and Research at the University of Northampton. She researches, teaches, supervises and has published widely in the field of education, with particular focus on early childhood education, pedagogy and issues of social justice. Jane leads on the Young Children Are Researchers (YCAR) Project. She has previously been an early childhood and primary school teacher as well as a teacher educator in the UK and she has worked with UNICEF and with governments in countries including Ethiopia, Bhutan, Georgia and the UK. Jane is Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Early Years Education, a Taylor and Francis peer reviewed journal.