Who We Are?
We are an interdisciplinary team of academic researchers from six universities across the UK. We applied our diverse expertise to answer the following question: How do children contribute to local community cohesion?
Middlesex University
Newcastle University
Magdalena Dujczynski
Middlesex University
University of Exeter
London School of Economics
and Political Science
University of Kent
University of Kent
Queen’s University Belfast
Helen King
University of Newcastle
Who We Are?
We are an interdisciplinary team of academic researchers from six universities across the UK. We applied our diverse expertise to answer the following question: How do children contribute to local community cohesion?
Dr Mona Sakr
Middlesex University
Mona is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood and researcher in Early Years (EY) provision. Her research focusses on leadership in EY and the contribution it makes to quality learning environments and interactions, particularly for babies under the age of 2 years.
Dr Emily Murphy
Newcastle University
Emily is a Senior Lecturer in Children’s Literature. Her research is interested in the intersections between constructions of national identity and childhood, including new forms of identity in a ‘global’ or ‘post-national’ world.
Magdalena Dujczynski
Middlesex University
Magdalena is a Research Assistant at and Early Years Initial Teacher Training Tutor (EYITT). Her research interests include multilingualism and culturally relevant leadership in the Early Years sector.
Dr Lorien Jasny
University of Exeter
Dr Lorien Jasny is an Associate Professor of Computational Social Science at Exeter University. She investigates how social networks both enable and constrain communities and collective action.
Dr Charlotte Haberstroh
London School of Economics
and Political Science
Charlotte is the Programme and Curriculum Design Lead for King’s Business School. Previous research has focussed on the political origins and consequences of educational inequalities in Western Europe and, more recently, interdisciplinarity in education and research.
Dr Lindsey Cameron
University of Kent
Lindsay is a Reader in Psychology. Her research is interested in how children become ‘social beings’, and more specifically, how do children develop the social knowledge and skills that we as adults take for granted?
Dr Ronke Adeyanju
University of Kent
Ronke is a Social Developmental Psychologist interested in acculturation and socio-emotional development in minority ethnic children. Her current research focusses partly on intergenarational transmission of cultural values among ethnic minory groups
Dr Jocelyn Dautel
Queen’s University Belfast
Jocelyn’s research investigates the development of social cognition with an emphasis on how children categorise others into social groups, with a particular focus on studying children in contexts of intergroup conflict.
Helen King
University of Newcastle
Helen is a Research Associate in the School of English. Her interests include reader response research, radical children’s literature, narratives of displacement and migration, and participatory approaches to children’s studies.