An EconoTimes perspective

Diahann Gallard

Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the EdD programme in the School of Education, Liverpool John Moores University

Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the EdD programme in the School of Education, Liverpool John Moores University I am a senior lecturer/researcher in the School of Education. My teaching and research at LJMU is focussed on psychology in education. I am involved in various research projects about innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to education and wellbeing in mainstream and secure settings and compassionate-focussed practices in education. I originally trained as a Primary/EY teacher and taught for six years. I actively seeks ways to stay connected to my practitioner roots through research and consultancy. I am particularly interested in young children’s learning assisted by animals, learning about animals and environmental education, the perspectives of early educators regarding animal-related learning and the values associated with the teaching of animal-related themes in early childhood. My PhD thesis was about the status of animal-related and animal-assisted learning in early education settings in England. I am currently writing a book for Routledge entitled 'Animals in Early Childhood Education: Research, philosophy, ethics and practices'. I am the Chair of the Early Childhood Educational Anthrozoology (ECEA) research group (email: ECEA@ljmu.ac.uk). I hold Chartered Psychologist status with the British Psychological Society and I am a committee member of the BPS Psychology of Education Section. I co-wrote 'Psychology and Education' (part of the Routledge Foundations of Education Studies series) ISBN 9781138783492 and co-edited 'Children and Their Education in Secure Accommodation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Education, Health and Youth Justice' https://www.routledge.com/Children-and-Their-Education-in-Secure-Accommodation-Interdisciplinary/Gallard-Evans-Millington/p/book/9781138694408. I am a reviewer of proposals and manuscripts for various publishers for forthcoming texts about psychology and education. I am the Programme Leader for the EdD programme at LJMU https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduates/doctor-of-education Please get in touch if you would like more information about the course. I am the Secretary for the LJMU Centre for Educational Research (CERES) Management Group. To find about more about CERES, please visit: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/research/centres-and-institutes/centre-for-educational-research. Enquiries: CERES@ljmu.ac.uk