I am really looking forward to presenting the Conceptual Framework on literacy practices and home learning environment of Irish-Chinese families of young children DCU Postgraduate Research (IoE) Unconference on June 3rd #DCUunconfPGR21 #EDchatIE

I really enjoyed the experience of engaging with MotherTonguesIreland and the Early Language and Learning Lab. It was great work with Dr. Francesca Dr. @SineadMcNally6 and my research fellows Christina O'Keeffe Emma Reilly

Are you a Chinese speaking parent who's raising children aged 0-6 in Ireland? We'd love to hear your experiences&views on your child's early literacy&language learning.Please consider partaking in this survey via the link dcueducation.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0P… @SineadMcNally6 Gillian M Lake

I am looking forward to DCU Postgraduate Research (IoE) Unconference on 11th May. I will present a survey study that was conducted to explore the experiences and views of parents from diverse backgrounds on their children's language acquisition in Early Childhood Education #DCUunconfPGR22

The School Library Home Languages Funding Scheme information and application was released today. You can purchase native language and dual-language books for your school library from our partners LuminitaBooks and SwiftBooks. More info: buff.ly/3ynWdEp Languages Connect

Well done to my fellow presenters in room 4 at the #DCUunconfPGR22 and to the wonderful Karina Curley for chairing. Keeping the flag flying for research in ECEC! Weiyi6 and Hibah Binabdulrahman 🙌

📢Calling all educators & researchers interested in play 🔹Event 1 - Play in the Pandemic 10:00-12:00 Register 👉bit.ly/3KdKjAi 🔹Event 2 - International Symposium: Play in ECE 2:00-5:00 Register👉bit.ly/3DHjEt8 We are now Research Ireland Early Childhood Ireland @CRNIN

This will be a fantastic event!! It is next Friday!

⏲️And the countdown is on! Still time to register as we prepare to welcome panellists from research, policy and practice to discuss #play tomorrow DCU Institute of Education We are now Research Ireland 🔹'Play in the Pandemic' 10am-12pm👉bit.ly/3KdKjAi 🔹'Play in ECE' 2pm-5pm👉bit.ly/3DHjEt8

Something special took place at Friday's knowledge exchange for impact on play in Early Childhood Education DCU Institute of Education We are now Research Ireland when 100+ delegates joined our panels from research, policy and practice to discuss why play is a 'necessity'. Illustrated👇 and more details in🧵!

Honoured to have received the President's Award for Research Impact Dublin City University Daire Keogh for my research in #EarlyChildhood at a joyful celebration of DCU Research🎉 The gold coin was inspected for chocolate by my co-researchers at home and has made it safely to the mantelpiece!

nuffieldfoundation.org/publications/t… Mums and dads of children <5 are spending > time on development childcare (e.g reading and playing)—a 250% increase between 1975 & 2015. May provide evidence that young children are benefitting from a strengthened HLE #earlyyears #Read #Play

It was a huge pleasure to present at todays #2022literacy conference. Thank you to all the fantastic presenters and audience. Special thanks to @SineadMcNally6 and Gillian M Lake😊Looking forward to the rest of the conference!

Calling all parents (and children) who love to chat about books! Please consider taking part in Weiyi's study in which she is aiming to learn more about young children's perspectives on books and how parents view early shared reading 📚 More details👇 DCU School of Language, Literacy and ECE DCU Institute of Education