Meet the Early Years Research Group

About the group

The Early Years Group (EYRG) currently has 16 members on the mailing list and a sub-set of this number who attend meetings/active in the group. The group includes Lecturers and research students (PhD and EdD), researchers and Early Years practitioners. It is proposed that there will be both an internal and external mailing list for members. It is hoped that this mix of expertise will lend itself to a collegial and supportive environment. Researchers have varying expertise across methodological approaches, which will enrich the activities of the group. In the course of our research we will engage with some innovative methods to enable us to work respectfully and ethically with very young children. We also have links with other groups in areas such as humanistic perspectives.

We have many group members who are new to the field of research. Our aims for the first year reflect this:

1. Establish and run regular meetings.
2. Facilitate and support academic writing.
3. Seek external funding for research.
4. Begin to work collaboratively within and across groups on the initiation of potential projects.
5. Contribute to seminars, within and across research groups and within the School of Education.

Find out more about all the Research Groups at Oxford Brookes here.