Role
Meredith is a Course Leader/Senior Lecturer BA Hons Early Years and part time PhD researcher.
Career overview
Meredith's role for 11 years as a Curriculum Manager in an FE College was varied. Her responsibilities included managing vocational qualifications alongside higher education provision, leading a staff team, liaising with funding bodies, and mentoring PGCE students.
She began working at NTU in September 2018 as a Lecturer in Childhood. In early 2020, she took on the role of Course Leader, alongside writing the new Early Childhood Studies degree with a team of colleagues. The first cohort of students began in 2021, with the degree emphasizing the play-based nature of early childhood and the impact of an Early Childhood Practitioner on young children’s development. The BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies degree includes an embedded assessed placement that contributes to the Graduate Practitioner Competencies (GPCs), providing an essential link between the theory, research, and practice elements of a graduate role.
As a member of the Early Childhood Studies Degree Network strategy group, Meredith contributes to and influences decision-making that impacts the Early Childhood sector.
She is also a member of the NTU Ethics Committee, where she reviews undergraduate and postgraduate ethics applications.
Research areas
Meredith PhD research is focused upon Pedagogical Leadership in Early Childhood and uses Honneth’s theory of recognition to reflect upon the graduate role.