Dr. Jayne Osgood is Professor of Childhood Studies at the Centre for Education Research & Scholarship, Middlesex University. Her work addresses issues of worldly justice through critical engagement with policy, curricular frameworks, and pedagogical approaches in Early Childhood Education & Care. She is committed to extending understandings of the workforce, families, gender and sexualities, ‘child’, and ‘childhood’ in early years contexts through creative, affective methodologies. She has published extensively within the post- modernist paradigm with over 100 publications in the form of books, chapters and journal papers, her most recent books include: Postdevelopmental Approaches to Play (2025); Gender Un/bound: Traversing Educational Possibilities (2024); Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Research Observation (2023); Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods (2019); and Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Art (2019). She has served on the editorial boards of various journals and is a long-standing board member at Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. She is recently retired as Editor of Gender & Education and continues to edit Reconceptualising Education Research Methodology. She is also Book Series Editor for both Bloomsbury (Feminist Thought in Childhood Research; and Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood) and Springer (Keythinkers in Education).
Research Funding/Project Management
In preparation: ESRC Application: Gender Matters (with UCL, Cardiff & MMU).
In preparation: Making Odd Kin: Towards Child-Multispecies Flourishing in the Anthropocene
2025: AHRC: Unruly Toddler Bodies Network (with MMU, Sheffield Hallam).
2024: HEI Funding: Multispecies Flourishing: early childhood relationalities to minibeasts. www.minibeasts.org (PI)
2020: GCRF: Decolonising Children's Play in Sub-Saharan Africa www.dlalaproject.com
2019: ‘BioSocioCultural Inclusion in Educational Spaces: International Articulations for New Theories and Research Practices’ (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).
2017: Cambridge University Research & Development Fund: MUSICEUM scoping study
2017: HEI Funding: Diversity & Difference in Early Childhood pilot study
2016: TACTYC: The future for Qualifications and Training in Early Childhood Education.
2015: Middlesex University: (K)not-knowing: Children’s Entanglements with Diversity through Celebrations, Festivals & Events
2014: London Borough of Camden: Evaluation of the ‘White Working-class’ Achievement Pilot
2012: European Commission: SIRIUS Research Network (Research on Children from a Migrant Background)
2011: ESRC Education & Culture Seminar Series.
2011: Youth Music: Engaging Hard-to-Reach Families in Early Years Music-Making
2009: Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea: Evaluation of a Pilot Sleep Clinic
2008: General Teaching Council for England: CPD for Supply Teachers.
2007: Sure Start North West Kensington & Golborne: Parent Consultation Exercise
2006: Sure Start North West Kensington & Golborne: Parenting Programme Evaluation
2006: Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea: researching family support I: Evidence Paper & Literature Review on Parenting Support Programmes
2006: Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea: researching family support II: Evaluating Cheyne Home Visiting Service.
2005: Sure Start Golborne: Home Visiting Service Evaluation
2005: £18K Sure Start North West Kensington: Home Visiting Service Evaluation (PI)
2003: £25K Equal Opportunities Commission: Gender Equality and Work Experience (CI)
2003: European Social Fund: Women Teachers through the Glass Ceiling
2002: Sure Start Euston: Home Visiting Service Evaluation
2002: Department for Education and Skills: Developing the Business Skills of Childcare Professionals: An Evaluation of the Business Support Programmes
2001: Department for Education and Skills: Assessing the Business Skills of Childcare Professionals
2000: Local Government Association: Developing Early Education and Childcare Services for 21st Century
Markers of Esteem
Guest Editor: Bewildering the Pioneers, Pedagogy, Culture & Society (2024)
Conference Chair: Post Graduate Researchers Summer Conference, Mdx (2023)
Guest Editor: The Spectacle of the Toddler, Global Studies of Childhood Journal, Special Issue (2022)
Guest Editor: Risking Erasure? Posthuman Childhood Studies, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (2022)
Nominated to Academy of Finland Grant Applications Assessment Panel (2022)
Elected Professoriate Representative, Academic Board, Middlesex University (2021-2024)
Conference co-chair: PhEMaterialisms, Middlesex University (2015, 2018, 2021)
Awarded Doctoral Supervisor of the Year (2021)
Conference Chair: Gender & Education Association Biennial Conference, Middlesex University (2017)
Editor of Gender & Education Journal (2016-2023)
Series Editor: Springer Briefs in Education (from 2020)
Series Editor: Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood: Bloomsbury (from 2023)
Series Editor: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research: Bloomsbury (from 2015)
Guest Editor: Reimagining Childhood, Motherhood, Family and Community, Special Issue, Genealogy (2019)
Guest Editor ‘Revisiting Diversity & Difference through Children’s News Media’, Special Issue, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (2019)
Guest Editor: ‘Dark Play in the Digital Landscape’, Special Issue, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (2017)
·Guest Editor: ‘Reimagining Quality in Early Childhood Education’, Special Issue, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (2016)
Co-founder of Performing Methodologies in Early Years Research (PMEYR) Network (2014- date)
Transnational Early Childhood Workforce & Wellbeing Study Research Collective (2014- 2016)
Associate Editor, Women’s Studies International Forum (2014-2016)
Elected Chair, Editorial Board British Educational Research Journal (2013-2015)
Founding Member of Early Childhood Action (2012) http://www.earlychildhoodaction.com/
Editor: Reconceptualising Educational Research Methods Journal (2012-date)
Member of the International Childhood Critical Policy Studies Collaborative
Nominated Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (2010)
Book Reviews Editor, UK & Europe: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (2009-2015)
Editorial Board Member British Educational Research Journal (2009-2016)
Editorial Board Member Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (2007-date)
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