Eva is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Education, Social and Life Sciences, University of Chichester. Her work seeks to broaden current views on early childhood education and care (ECEC) in England with the aims to produce a more generative, ethical, and political way to enact ECEC. Her research interests focus on exploring the role of emotion in professional practices in addition to examining gender discourses in the ECEC field.

Sigrid Brogaard Clausen is a Danish Social Pedagogue, who works as Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies, University of Roehampton.  

Children’s wellbeing and democratic participation is at the forefront of her work, and she has carried out and published research into young children’s wellbeing (including assessment and professional and parental understandings thereof), early childhood professionalism & identity, and comparative curricula policy studies. Empowering democratic professionalism is part of her aims as academic tutor, researcher and member of the Early Childhood Studies Degree Network (ECSDN), where she currently holds a role a vice chair for Professionalism in Early Childhood.