Research outputs per year
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Dr
Accepting PhD Students
I am and Associate Professor in Creative Methodologies and Education in the School of Education, Languages and Lingusitics.
I am also the institutional lead for the Education Unit of Assessment REF2029 entry.
I am an Associate Professor in Creative Methodologies and Education in the School of Education, Languages and Linguistics, University of Portsmouth.
My research is theoretically informed by critical feminist materialist and posthumanist theory-praxis and I regularly practise writing as a method of inquiry.
My research has two bifurcations:
the first employs research-creation and creative methodologies to challenging normative views of method/ology and knowledge production in conference/workshop spaces.
Both these bifurcations utilise working with feminist materialist, posthumanist, research-creation, undisciplined post- philosophies and qualitative modes of knowledge production.
My research interests have been driven by my background in ECEC and teaching. I have shifted towards a posthuman, feminist materialist theoretical position as it enables me to have a new purchase on events and their connections to place-space. My scholarship seeks to broaden current views and aims to produce a more generative, relational, connected, ethical and political way to enact research. My research is theoretical, but has been empirically applied in the development of my concepts place-space and feminist materialist relational time. It includes projects which has given me the opportunity to explore posthuman subjectivity and places-spaces in ECEC classrooms and gardens. These will be included in my forthcoming book Place-Space Methodologies in Early Childhood Education and Care.
I am a founder member of an International research collaboration, the CG Collective, exploring research-creation, post-qualitative method/ology and knowledge production at/in conference spaces. We have engaged in numerous workshops and have produced academic articles and our book Knowledge Production in Material Spaces: Disturbing Conferences and Composing Events.
I review for a range of education and gender focussed journals and various national and international grant funding bodies. I am an Associate Editor for the Journal of Posthumanism and am on the Editorial Boards of Gender and Education, and Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. I am also a Steering Group Member of the European Network of Qualitative Inquiry.
I have worked closely with ECEC organisations such as the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Special Interest Group in ECEC and the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network where I was part of the development of the Graduate Practitioner Competencies and as Co-Vice Chair of Research and Knowledge Exchange.
My previous roles include a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chichester, a Deputy Manager of a Montessori ECEC setting in the UK and I have had various leadership roles in the private sector.
Teaching
I teach on our Professional Doctorate in Education and lead two modules - Publication, dissemination and impact and Reserch proposal.
EdD/PhD students
I am happy to consider EdD/PhD inquiries from students who wish explore proposals in Early Childhood Education and Care.
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):
Other, Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Academy
1 Sept 2020 → 6 Apr 2021
Award Date: 6 Apr 2021
Ph.D., Earthworm disturbances: the reimagining of relations in Early Childhood Education and Care, University of Southampton
Award Date: 28 Sept 2017
Other, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Academy
Award Date: 29 Jan 2015
PG Cert, PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Chichester
Award Date: 5 Nov 2014
MA, MA (Education), University of Chichester
Award Date: 11 Sept 2013
Other, Early Years Professional Status, Children's Workforce Development Council
Award Date: 3 Nov 2011
BSc (Hons), BSc (Hons) Biology, University of Nottingham
Award Date: 15 Jul 1993
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Fairchild, N. (PI) & Maynard, E. (CoI)
1/01/23 → 31/01/23
Project: Innovation
Maynard, E. (PI), Fairchild, N. (Team Member), Sims-Schouten, W. (Team Member), Cramphorn, K. (Team Member) & Warhurst, A. (Team Member)
1/04/21 → 30/07/21
Project: Research
Fairchild, N. (PI), Barton, S. (CoI), Sabine, A. (CoI) & Mikuska, E. (CoI)
Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network
1/11/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
Fairchild, N. (PI)
1/09/18 → 31/03/19
Project: Research
Fairchild, N. (PI)
1/01/14 → 21/12/14
Project: Research
Fairchild, N. (Presented paper), Benozzo, A. (Presented paper), Cranham, J. (Presented paper), Pihkala, S. (Presented paper) & Taylor, C. A. (Presented paper)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Fairchild, N. (Presented paper), Taylor, C. A. (Presented paper), Beggan, A. (Presented paper), Baxter, L. (Presented paper), Broder-Roger, D. (Presented paper), Hume, J. (Presented paper), Martini, N. (Presented paper), Jacobs, A. (Presented paper) & Horsti, K. (Presented paper)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Fairchild, N. (Presented paper) & Taylor, C. A. (Presented paper)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Taylor, C. A. (Speaker) & Fairchild, N. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Koro, M. (Speaker), Taylor, C. A. (Speaker) & Fairchild, N. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Fairchild, N. (Recipient), 5 Apr 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Fairchild, N. (Recipient), Taylor, C. A. (Recipient), Carey, N. (Recipient), Benozzo, A. (Recipient), Koro, M. (Recipient) & Elmenhorst, C. (Recipient), 18 Nov 2022
Prize: National/international honour
Fairchild, N. (Recipient), Taylor, C. A. (Recipient), Benozzo, A. (Recipient), Carey, N. (Recipient), Koro-Ljungberg, M. (Recipient) & Elmenhorst, C. (Recipient), 28 Oct 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)