Chelmsford
0845 196 3544
paulette.luff@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• BEd (Hons) - Westminster College, Oxford
• MA Education - Open University
• PG Diploma (Child Development) - Institute of Education, London
• PG Certificate (Learning and Teaching in HE) - Anglia Ruskin University
• PhD - Anglia Ruskin University

• British Educational Research Association (BERA) - Member of Early Years Special Interest Group
• Early Education (British Association for Early Childhood Education)
• European Early Childhood Educational Research Association (EECERA)
• TACTYC Association for the Professional Development of Early Years Educators

Courses

• Course Leader for BA (Hons) Education (Level 6 top-up award)
• Course Leader for MA Early Childhood Studies

Module leadership:

• Key Person - first year BA (Hons) Early Years Professional Practice
• Documenting Care and Learning - second year BA (Hons) Early Years Professional Practice
• Exploring Curriculum - second year FdA Early Years, Playwork and Education; second year BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies, BA (Hons) Early Years Professional Practice, BA (Hons) Education Studies and BA (Hons) Education and Childhood Studies
• Investigating Education through Research - third year BA (Hons) Education, MA Education
• Raising Achievement through Improving Teaching and Learning - third year BA (Hons) Education
• Reflective Writing in a Professional Context - third year BA (Hons) Education
• Early Years Pedagogy - MA Early Years Professional Practice and MA Early Childhood Studies
• Early Childhood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives - MA Early Childhood Studies

Other module teaching:

• Early Childhood Research Methodology - MA Early Childhood Studies
• Early Years Settings: Issues and Contexts - third year BA (Hons)

Paulette also works with undergraduate and postgraduate students who are carrying out major projects and is on supervisory teams for five doctoral researchers. She is a member of the team who lead weekend study workshops for EdD candidates

Outline of Career

Paulette has worked in the field of early childhood, throughout her career as a teacher, foster carer, school-home liaison worker, nursery practitioner and advisor, and as a childcare and education lecturer in further education.

Paulette joined Anglia Ruskin University in 2003 and is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Education. In addition to the teaching highlighted above, she is vice-chair of the Faculty Research Ethics Panel (FREP) and member of the Research Ethics SubCommittee (RESC).

Paulette is an external examiner for the Foundation Degree in Early Years and the Graduate Diploma in Early Years Practice at the University of Northampton.

Research Interests

Paulette is the convenor of the Early Childhood Research Group, affiliated to the Children and Youth Research Institute, and her current research focuses upon:

• Observation and pedagogical documentation in early years settings
• Learning journals as tools for reflection and relational pedagogy

Selected Publications

Luff, P. (2012) Challenging Assessment. In T. Papatheodorou and J. Moyles (Eds.) Cross-cultural Perspectives on Early Childhood. London: Sage.

Podmore, V. and Luff, P. (2012) Observation: Origins and Approaches in Early Childhood. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Luff, P. (2012) Observations: recording and analysis in the Early Years Foundation Stage In I. Palaiologou (Ed.) The Early Years Foundation Stage. Theory and Practice. (2nd edn.) London: Sage

Luff, P. (2012) Reclaiming Care in Early Childhood Education and Care In C. Rogers, S. Weller and G. Phillips (Eds) Critical Approaches to Care. Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures. London: Routledge.

Papatheodorou, T. and Luff, P. with Gill, J. (2011) Child Observation for Learning and Research. Harlow: Pearson.

Luff, P. with Collins, S., Gibbs, J., Thomas, L. and Sprawling, M. (2010) Thinking through the uses of observation and documentation. In J. Moyles (Ed.) Thinking About Play: Developing a Reflective Approach. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Luff, P. (2009) Looking, listening, learning and linking: uses of observation for relational pedagogy. In T. Papatheodorou, and J. Moyles (Eds.) Learning Together in the Early Years: Relational Pedagogy. London: Routledge.

Luff, P. and Pryor, R. (2009) Enhancing learning? Exploring the use of assessment methods as pedagogical tools to promote effective learning and teaching in early childhood studies. PRIME (Pedagogical Research in Maximising Education) Volume 3, Issue 2: Proceedings of the PRHE Conference; pp 79-88.

Luff, P. (2008) Responsive work with babies in an English day nursery. In J. Brownlee, D. Berthelsen and E. Johansen (Eds) Participatory Learning in the Early Years: Theory, Research and Practice. London: Routledge.

Luff, P. (2007) Written observations or walks in the park? In J. R. Moyles (Ed) Early Years Foundations: Meeting the Challenge. Maidenhead: Open University Press.