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Claire Walsh

Claire Walsh

 https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0522-5447

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    My research works at the intersections of philosophy, education and experimental research methodology, with a particular interest in what becomes possible when educational research is not required to begin from established qualitative categories of knowledge, experience or the human.

    Working predominantly through postqualitative enquiry, my research explores questions of ontology, ethics, intelligibility, language, policy and knowledge production. Early years education is particularly important to this work, not simply as a context in which philosophical concepts can be applied, but as a site from which philosophy itself can be thought differently. This involves taking seriously forms of existence, learning and thought that exceed conventional assumptions about representation, recognitions and human-centred knowledge.

    My current work includes research into educational policy and nonviolence, experimental approaches to research and writing, and the development of metaphysical work concerned with what existence might require us to think when intelligibility is no longer assumed to be its condition.

    Roles on external bodies

    Editor, Plymouth Interdisciplinary Education Open Journal (PIEOJ), January 2026-present.

    Research Interests

    • postqualitative enquiry
    • experimental research methodologies
    • philosophy of education
    • philosophy from educational practice
    • early childhood and early years education
    • metaphysics and ontology
    • intelligibility and the limits of knowledge
    • language and representation
    • ethics and nonviolence
    • curriculum and education policy
    • human-centred knowledge and its limits
    • knowledge production

    Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

    1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
      SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
    2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
      SDG 4 Quality Education
    3. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
      SDG 5 Gender Equality
    4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
      SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
    5. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
      SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    6. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
      SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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