Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Sue Atkins
Can we reclaim one small moment? Parents are under enormous pressure. They are expected to raise happy, healthy children while navigating wo...
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Talking Early Years with June O'Sullivan
An inspiring, outspoken speaker, author, podcaster and regular media commentator, June O'Sullivan MBE is Chief Executive of the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF), one of London’s largest...
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20 of 67 episodesTalking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Ruth Lister
Around 4.5 million children in the UK are living in poverty. Yet poverty is not always immediately visible. It is not necessarily a child wi...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Katy Potts
Is giving a young child unrestricted access to digital technology like handing them a vape? In my latest podcast, I sat down with digital sa...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan, Chris Pascal and Tony Bertram
This is the first hour I’d spent with Professors Chris Pascal OBE and Dr Tony Bertram since they stopped supervising my PhD, and the convers...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Catherine Mole
SEND, Social Justice and the Question We Keep Avoiding Everyone is talking about SEND. Inclusion. Rising need. Pressures on schools and nurs...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Salas Balde
Kindness Is the Work: A Conversation with Salas Balde for the Next Generation of Early Years Educators Every now and then, someone walks int...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Katy Potts
Is giving a young child unrestricted access to digital technology like handing them a vape? In my latest podcast, I sat down with digital sa...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Susan Santone
Social justice can sound lofty. Abstract. Something discussed in policy papers or parliamentary chambers. But the truth is, the seeds of fai...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Laura Lundy
An inspiring, outspoken speaker, author, podcaster and regular media commentator, June O'Sullivan MBE is Chief Executive of the London Early...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Barbara Rogoff
Learning by Living: Barbara Rogoff on Sociocultural Learning Listen now In this episode of Talking Early Years , I’m in conversation with on...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Howard Roberts
This week on the podcast, I’m joined by Howard Roberts, a creative strategist whose superpower is curiosity. The real kind—the kind that ask...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Sam Wass
I’ve just finished recording a podcast with Professor Sam Wass, and I’m still buzzing. He is Director of the Institute for the Science of Ea...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Catherine Lippe
Why Nursery Chefs Are Our Unsung Food Champions I recently spoke with Catherine Lippe, a registered nutritionist with more than 18 years’ ex...
Talking Early Years: In Conversation with Peter Moss
Early childhood education is not a neutral or technical service—it is a deeply political space and this is the focus of my podcast guest Pro...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Ellen Sandseter
Risky Play or Not Risky Play - That is the Question! Ellen Sandseter is a well-known professor at Queen Maud University College for Early Ch...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Sue Egersdorff
The Power of Intergenerational Nurseries In this podcast, I speak to Sue Egersdorff, co-founder of the intergenerational Ready Generations N...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Greg Bottrill
Are children deprived of the opportunity to play?... ...is not a new question, but one that continues to be tackled on many levels. Greg Bot...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Frank Cottrell-Boyce
If you have been frog marched through books, why would you ever read for pleasure? asks Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the Children’s Book Laureate....
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Jools Page
Professional Love: The Beating Heart of Early Years Education and Care On Valentine’s Day, there is much talk about romantic love, but we ar...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Louise Hannan
Unpacking The Twoness of Twos The Government has agreed to continue the roll out of funded places for two-year-olds, with talk of putting th...