Dr Marie Lavelle

Dr Marie Lavelle is a Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at the Plymouth Institute of Education. Playing in spaces of temporal entanglements, her research has focused on parenting and more recently grand/mothering in the (post)Anthropocene and how 'Greying Comes to Matter in the Academy'. Encounters with critical new materialism, post-humanist philosophies and members of the AiPH group have encouraged bravery to wander without a map and to gaze without a focus.

Journal reviewer – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Children and Society, Children’s Geography’s and Research, Early Years.

Currently Supervising (PhD and EdD)

An exploration into the relationships young children make in their early years setting.

A critical investigation using facet methodology to identify children’s (3-4 years old) perceptions and expressions of learning and how this might relate to the entanglement of existing philosophical concepts within early childhood education and care (ECEC).

How does evidence influence teachers enactment of the Pupil Premium strategy?

Curriculum becoming dragon.

My teaching commitments reflect my desire to remain connected to my health and social care professional heritage, whilst at the same time expanding my interest in sociology of childhood and the critiquing of the various perspectives and theoretical positions that are offered in the study of children and childhoods.

Teaching 2022-23