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Dr Jane Dorrian

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Lecturer, Early Childhood
  • Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies
  • School of Education, Childhood, Youth & Sport
  • Education
  • jane.dorrian

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Professional biography

I started my career as a primary school teacher in the south Wales valleys and worked for several years in a nursery school before taking a secondment to be the LEA advisory teacher for early years. At the end of the secondment I took up a lecturing role on the Education and Early Childhood Studies degree programmes at University of Wales, Newport and during my time there I completed my doctorate. I then moved to Cardiff Metropolitan University where I worked as the Deputy Head of Department in the School of Education and Social Policy whilst contining to teach on the Early Childhood Studies and Primary Education programmes.ÌýIn 2018 I became a Staff Tutor at the Open University before joining the Early Childhood team in 2022.

Research interests

My doctoral thesis looked at the professional identities of early years practitioners and this is still an area that I am interested in. I amÌýinvolved in projects that explore physical literacy in the early years and have undertaken scholarship exploring how aspects of the hidden curriculum impact on student experience.

Teaching interests

My teaching interests are young children's physical literacy, early years' practitioners professioal identities and undertsking research with young children.

Impact and engagement

PRAXIS funded Scholarship projectÌý

Podcast exploring the implications of the new Welsh Curriculum for teacher trainingÌý³ó³Ù³Ù±è²õ://²Ô²¹±è±ð.´Ç°ù²µ.³Ü°ì/²Ô²¹±è±ð-±è´Ç»å³¦²¹²õ³ÙÌýÌý

Mini-articleÌýfor OU OpenLearn https://ounews.co/education-languages-health/childhood-youth/teach-your-child-through-creative-play/ÌýÌý

Video and mini-article for OU OpenLearnÌý

External collaborations

External evaluator for the Early Years Wales 'Welsh Active Early Years' programmeÌýÌýÌý

Publications

(2024)
Hendry, Helen; Teszenyi, Eleonora; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy; Maynes, Mary-Louise; Dorrian, Jane and Edwards, Tracey
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal ((Early access))

(2021)
Dorrian, Jane
Early Years, 43(1) (pp. 91-103)

(2022-02)
Dorrian, Jane
In: Betts, A. L. and Thai, K-P. eds. Handbook of Research on Innovative Approaches to Early Childhood Development and School Readiness. Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education (AECKE) (pp. 96-112)
ISBN : 9781799886495 | Publisher : IGI Global | Published : Hershey, Pennsylvania

(2024)
Musgrave, Jackie; Dorrian, Jane; Josephidou, Jo; Langdown, Ben and Rodriguez Leon, Lucy eds.
Little Minds Matter
ISBN : 978-1-032-47954-5 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon, Oxon

(2024)
Dorrian, Jane
In : BECERA 2024: Early Years Education as Political Activity: Access, Choice, Agency and Voice (13 Feb 2024, Birmingham, UK)

(2022-07)
Dorrian, Jane
In : Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2022: Teaching in the spotlight: Where next for enhancing student success? (5-7 Jul 2022, Northumbria University, Newcastle)

(2025-01-28)
Dorrian, Jane
OpenLearn

(2024-10)
Josephidou, Joanne; Teszenyi, Eleonora; Buck, Julie; Dorrian, Jane; Plowright-Pepper, Linda and Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy
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(2024-08-01)
Dorrian, Jane
British Educational Research Association (BERA), London, UK.

(2023-11-21)
Dorrian, Jane
Centre for Research in Early Childhood, Birmingham, UK.

(2023)
Glover, Alison and Dorrian, Jane
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(2022-04)
Dorrian, Jane
Early Years Wales (In Press)