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0845 196 3567
christine.such@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• BSc
• MA

• Individual Member National Children's Bureau
• Member of the Higher Education Academy

Courses

• Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood

Outline of Career

Chris has a first degree in Sociology and a higher degree in Social Policy. She is completing her EdD and the focus of her thesis is exploring professional development for early years practitioners to encourage their leadership.

She teaches across all three levels of the BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies and on the Foundation degree in Early Years and Childcare. She also covers general teaching in the areas of sociology and social policy.

Chris is also an external examiner for the University of Portsmouth on two of their undergraduate degree programmes in Early Childhood Studies and Childhood and Youth Studies.

Research interests

Chris has completed work on the use of learning technologies to enhance students' collaborative learning. She has developed a model for learning to support students' investigations of early years settings and researched its use as part of a funded project supported by Inspire (Anglia Ruskin University) in 2009/10. This early work also informs her doctoral studies into professional learning. She is a member of the specialist interest group in the faculty on early childhood and her interests are in exploring aspects of pedagogy and early years provision.

She is lead researcher with colleagues in the Department of Education on a study which is exploring the impact of training on the use of interactive whiteboards (IWB) and how lecturers' integrate their use in higher education classrooms. This work is funded under the university learning and teaching projects scheme.

Selected Publications

Chapters in books
Joslyn, E., Such, C., and Bond, E. (2005) Social Policy, the State, the Family and Young Children. In J. Taylor and M. Woods Early Childhood Studies An Holistic Approach (2e) London: Arnold.

Selected conference attendance
'Creating and using an electronic journal: a shared experience' Christine Such, Mark Miller and Anna Luff Poster presentation. Early Childhood Policy and Pedagogy in the 21st Century? An International Debate Anglia Ruskin University conference. 25-27 March 2010

'Transformation of early years provision using discourses for professional development for practitioners' Christine Such and Julia Druce. Workshop paper. Early Childhood Policy and Pedagogy in the 21st Century? An International Debate Anglia Ruskin University conference. 25-27 March 2010

'Working together: fostering peer collaboration in practice' C. Such. Workshop paper. EECERA conference 5-8 September 2010, Birmingham University

'Effective Reflection on Practice' C. Such, E. Brooker, J. Canfield and L. Norton. Workshop. Reflection in Early Years and Childcare Settings, Anglia Ruskin University with Essex Early Years 14 November 2009

'Working together: fostering peer collaboration and capturing this learning via the use of the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB)' C. Such and M. Miller. Workshop. Inspire Teaching and Learning conference, Anglia Ruskin University 7 July 2010

'Facilitating undergraduate students assessment for learning through the use of appreciative inquiry' C. Such. Workshop paper. PRHE conference, 25-26 October 2010, Liverpool Hope University