Dr Ester Ehiyazaryan-White PhD, BA

 In my role as a researcher for education charities I completed projects which resulted in publishable teaching resources for schools as well as conducting evaluative research for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.                                                                  

I was later employed as an educational researcher with the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Sheffield Hallam University. Within this role I completed a range of projects focusing on students' experiences of learner autonomy in Higher Education as well as pathways to enhancing learner employability.

Between 2009 and 2014 I worked as a lecturer in Education and Early Childhood Studies, at University Centre Doncaster and as an associate lecturer at the Open University. In my role as lecturer, I maintained my research profile by conducting action research on the use of e-portfolios and completing a funded Teaching Fellowship with the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education - this work focused on developing open education and open educational resources to support learning and teaching research methods in education.

I started working at Sheffield Hallam University in my current role as Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies in 2014. Since joining the university my research interests have focused on children learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) as well as digital literacies in the early years.

Senior Lecturer

Teaching Interests

Children learning English as an Additional Language, digital literacies in childhood and early childhood

Department of Education, Childhood and Inclusion

Social Sciences and Arts

Childhood Studies

The Story of Childhood and Adolescence

Child and Adolescent Development

Researching Childhood

Research Project

Evidence and Evaluation (MA)

Between 2016-2018 I was part of the evaluation team for Integrating English: Training mainstream teachers in improving their language pedagogy, through “LILAC” and ongoing support. Funded by Enfield Council.

I am part of a working group exploring Teachers' beliefs and perceptions of the use of digital literacies in children aged 0-8 years in England. This project is part of a larger European research network COST action study (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) exploring digital literacies in the early years.

Journal articles

Daniels, K., Burnett, C., Bower, K., Escott, H., Ehiyazaryan-White, E., Hatton, A., & Monkhouse, J. (2019). Early years teachers and digital literacies: Navigatinga kaleidoscope of discourses. Education and Information Technologies, 25 (4), 2415-2426. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-019-10047-9

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Member of the Pre-School Learning Alliance

Member of the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC)