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Professor Caroline Barratt-Pugh

Honorary Professor

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Email: c.barratt_pugh@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1470-0089

Caroline is an Honorary Professor in the School of Education.

Background

Caroline trained as an early childhood teacher and worked as a teacher and senior advisory teacher for the promotion of multicultural education in Bradford, West Yorkshire (UK) between1978-1987. She was awarded her PhD from The University of Leeds (UK) in December 1990, while working at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) as a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies (Early Childhood). She took up the position of Senior Lecturer (Early Childhood) at Edith Cowan University in 1992 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and appointed as Professor of Early Childhood research at ECU in 2013.

Professional associations

  • 2013 - ongoing: Curriculum and Assessments Committee, School Curriculum and Standards Authority (Member)
  • 2012 - ongoing: ARC Discovery proposals (Assessor)
  • 2017 - 2020: TKI, CoLab Research Advisory Committee (Chair and member)
  • 2018 - ongoing: Literacy Educators Network WA (Member)
  • 2010 - 2014: Closing the Gap Clearinghouse, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (Reviewer)
  • 1993 - ongoing: Early Childhood Australia (Member)
  • 2018 - 2019: Primary English Teaching Association Australia (Member)
  • 1995 - 2005: Australian Literacy Educators' Association (Member).

Awards and recognition

  • 2021 - Winner, Engagement Australia Excellence Awards in the category of Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact. Citation: ‘Better Beginnings’: The development and impact of a State library and University partnership on a family literacy program
  • 2017 - ECU Vice Chancellor's Staff Award for Engagement in Research.

Research interests

  • Digital technologies in early childhood
  • Early intervention programs
  • Language and literacy learning and development
  • Multilingual children, families and communities
  • Early childhood pedagogy and practice.

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