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, 鈥榗hild鈥�, and 鈥榗hildhood鈥� 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);听Gender Un/bound: Traversing Educational Possibilities (2024);听Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Research Observation听(2023);听Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods听(2019); and听Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Art听(2019). She has served on the editorial boards of various journals and is a long-standing board member at听Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. She is recently retired as Editor of听Gender & Education听and continues to edit听Reconceptualising Education Research Methodology. She is also Book Series Editor for both Bloomsbury (Feminist Thought in Childhood Research; and听Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood) and Springer (Keythinkers in Education).听
Research Funding/Project Management
In preparation AHRC: 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.听听(笔滨)听
2020: GCRF: Decolonising Children's Play in 听Sub-Saharan Africa 听
2019: 鈥楤ioSocioCultural Inclusion in Educational Spaces: International Articulations for New Theories and Research Practices鈥� (Pontificia Universidad Cato虂lica de Chile).听
2017: Cambridge University Research & Development Fund: MUSICEUM scoping study听
2017: HEI Funding: Diversity & Difference in Early Childhood pilot study
2016: TACTYC: The future for Qualifications and Training in Early Childhood Education.听
2015: Middlesex University: (K)not-knowing: Children鈥檚 Entanglements with Diversity through Celebrations, Festivals & Events听
2014: London Borough of Camden: Evaluation of the 鈥榃hite Working-class鈥� Achievement Pilot听
2012: European Commission: SIRIUS Research Network (Research on Children from a Migrant Background)听
2011: ESRC Education & Culture Seminar Series.听
2011: Youth Music: Engaging Hard-to-Reach Families in Early Years Music-Making听
2009: Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea: Evaluation of a Pilot Sleep Clinic听
2008: General Teaching Council for England: CPD for Supply Teachers.
2007: Sure Start North West Kensington & Golborne: Parent Consultation Exercise听
2006: Sure Start North West Kensington & Golborne: Parenting Programme Evaluation听
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.听
2005: Sure Start Golborne: Home Visiting Service Evaluation听
2005: 拢18K Sure Start North West Kensington: Home Visiting Service Evaluation (PI)
2003: 拢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听
2002: Department for Education and Skills: Developing the Business Skills of Childcare Professionals: An Evaluation of the Business Support Programmes听
2001: Department for Education and Skills: Assessing the Business Skills of Childcare Professionals听
2000: Local Government Association: Developing Early Education and Childcare Services for 21st听颁别苍迟耻谤测
Markers of Esteem
Guest Editor: British Education Research Journal: Gender & Sexualities Special Issue (2026)
Guest Editor: Reconfiguring Professionalism in Early Childhood: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (2026)
Guest Editor: Transdisciplinary Ecopedagogies: Global Studies of Childhood (2026)
Guest Editor: Bewildering the Pioneers, Pedagogy, Culture & Society (2024)
Conference Chair:听Post Graduate Researchers Summer Conference, Mdx (2023)听
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听Biennial Conference, Middlesex University (2017)
Editor of听Gender & Education Journal听(2016-2023)
Series Editor:听Springer Briefs in Education听(from 2020)
Series Editor:听Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood: Bloomsbury (from 2023)
Series Editor:听Feminist Thought in Childhood Research:听Bloomsbury (from 2015)
Guest Editor: Reimagining Childhood, Motherhood, Family and Community, Special Issue,听Genealogy听(2019)
Guest Editor 听鈥楻evisiting Diversity & Difference through Children鈥檚 News Media鈥�, Special Issue,听Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood听(2019)
Guest Editor: 听鈥楧ark Play in the Digital Landscape鈥�, Special Issue,听Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood听(2017)
路Guest Editor: 鈥楻eimagining Quality in Early Childhood Education鈥�, Special Issue,听Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood听(2016)
Co-founder of听Performing Methodologies in Early Years Research听(PMEYR) Network (2014- date)
Transnational Early Childhood Workforce & Wellbeing Study Research Collective (2014- 2016)
Associate Editor,听Women鈥檚 Studies International Forum听(2014-2016)
Elected Chair, Editorial Board听British Educational Research Journal听(2013-2015)
Founding Member of听Early Childhood Action听(2012)听
Editor:听Reconceptualising Educational Research Methods听Journal听(2012-date)听
Member of the听International Childhood Critical Policy Studies Collaborative听
Nominated Fellow of听The Royal Society of Arts听(2010)
Book Reviews Editor, UK & Europe:听Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood听(2009-2015)
Editorial Board Member听British Educational Research Journal听(2009-2016)
Editorial Board Member听Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood听(2007-date)
