Talks and Invited Speakers 

• "The identity crisis in early years - the need for childcare vs building ambitious foundations for life" - Rachel Brook (Leeds City Council) 

• "Parental relationships and engagement as a marker of quality – shifting the narrative from ‘childcare’ to the transformational nature of ECEC" - Sally Pearse & Fufy Demissie (Sheffield Hallam University)

• "Professional Development to improve outcomes for children: working with Early Years Practitioners from a research perspective" - Louise Tracey (University of Leeds)

• "Developing ECEC professionals: balancing breadth and depth"  - Sara Bonetti (National Day Nurseries Association)

Attendees

• Aimee Code - Research Associate, University of York

• Cat Davies - Professor of Language Development, University of Leeds

• Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez - Research Associate, University of Leeds / University of Sheffield

• Claudine Bowyer-Crane - Professor of Education, University of Sheffield

• Dea Nielsen - Research Fellow, University of York 

• Erin Dysart - Associate Lecturer, University of York; Research and Evaluation Lead, North Yorkshire Coast Research Schools.

• Fufy Demissie - Senior Lecturer in Early Years Education, Sheffield Hallam University 

• Joni Kelly - Research Assistant, Education Policy Institute 

• Lauren Liotti - Mission manager, Fairer Start, NESTA

• Louise Kay - Lecturer in Early Childhood, University of Sheffield; Early Childhood Education and Care SIG convenor for BERA.

• Louise Tracey -  Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Leeds

• Nathan Archer - Director of the International Montessori Institute, Leeds Beckett University

• Nayeli Gonzales-Gomez - Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Oxford Brookes University  

• Rachel Brook - Early Years Consultant , Early Years Learning Improvement Team, Leeds City Council.

• Rob Newton - Social Mobility Project Manager for Early Talk for York, City of York Council

• Ruth Dennis - Principal Educational Psychologist, Bradford Council.

• Sally Pearse - Strategic Lead for Early Years, Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University

• Sara Bonetti - Early Years Workforce Transformation Lead, National Day Nursery Association

• Simran Motiani - Analyst, Fairer Start Mission, NESTA