Minibeast Team
Dr. Jayne Osgood
Dr. Victoria de Rijke
Dr. Victoria de Rijke
Dr. Jayne Osgood is Professor of Childhood Studies at the Centre for Education Research & Scholarship, Middlesex University; and Professor II at Hogskolen i Innlandet, Norway. Her work addresses issues of worldly justice through critical engagement with policy, curriculum, and pedagogical approaches in Early Childhood Education. She is co
Dr. Jayne Osgood is Professor of Childhood Studies at the Centre for Education Research & Scholarship, Middlesex University; and Professor II at Hogskolen i Innlandet, Norway. Her work addresses issues of worldly justice through critical engagement with policy, curriculum, and pedagogical approaches in Early Childhood Education. She is committed to extending understandings of the workforce, families, gender, sexualities, and ‘child’ 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 Childhood Research Observation (2023); Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods (2019); and Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Art ( 2019). She has served on the editorial boards of various journals and is a long-standing board member at Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. She served as Editor for Gender & Education (2016-2023) and is currently Editor at Reconceptualising Education Research Methodology, an open access journal publishing cutting edge papers on philosophically informed approaches to research. She is also Editor of three books series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research; Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood; and Keythinkers in Education.
Dr. Victoria de Rijke
Dr. Victoria de Rijke
Dr. Victoria de Rijke
Beginning as a primary school teacher in London, Victoria has worked in Primary Teacher Training for over 30 years, crossing the disciplines of Literacy and Visual & Performing Arts. She has led and collaborated on many projects with schoolchildren and artists, acting as an education/ arts consultant. Victoria is Education's Research Dire
Beginning as a primary school teacher in London, Victoria has worked in Primary Teacher Training for over 30 years, crossing the disciplines of Literacy and Visual & Performing Arts. She has led and collaborated on many projects with schoolchildren and artists, acting as an education/ arts consultant. Victoria is Education's Research Director with CERS Center for Education Research and Scholarship, contributing to supervision and doctoral study.
Matthew Maxwell
Dr. Victoria de Rijke
Matthew Maxwell
Matthew is a Post Graduate Researcher at Middlesex University in the faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, returning to full-time academia after a career in communications. With over 25 years of hands-on experience in the business of interaction, he has led digital research and design projects for global corporations, spunky start-ups,
Matthew is a Post Graduate Researcher at Middlesex University in the faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, returning to full-time academia after a career in communications. With over 25 years of hands-on experience in the business of interaction, he has led digital research and design projects for global corporations, spunky start-ups, government ministries, banks, retailers, and deep tech vendors. In parallel, his digital and interactive artworks have been exhibited internationally and are represented in private and public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Tate Gallery book collection.