Faculty of Education, Arts, Science and Technology
Dr Hannah Hogarth is a Senior Lecturer in Education (CYF) in the Faculty of Education, Arts, Science and Technology at the University of Northampton. Hannah has worked in the field of education for over 20 years and is interested in relational, creative and playful approaches in research and practice. She began her career as a secondary school History teacher as part of the Teach First programme and has worked in schools across England and Switzerland. She recently obtained her Doctorate in Education at the University of Bath (2024) and spent her project co-researching and co-authoring with young children to explore play and nature relations in an urban forest school. She has written and presented papers for various international conferences on early childhood education, play, nature relations and creative pedagogies and methodologies. Hannah received her MA Education from the University of Bath in 2018. Prior to this, she worked as the International Baccalaureate Coordinator at an International School in Switzerland and taught History in a variety of schools in London, England. She has also worked for charities that support disengaged and/or disadvantaged young people including Teach First and The Garden Classroom.
Hannah’s research explores education in multiple forms across phases from early years to higher education with a focus on education as/for ecosocial justice. Hannah’s research is theoretically driven by critical feminist new materialist and posthumanist philosophies and she engages with creative, playful post-qualitative methods including walking methodologies and play and arts based methods (such as collaging, collaborative writing and storytelling). She has published widely in the field of early childhood education, environmental education and higher education pedagogies (see https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2993-1020).
Hannah is currently editing the following books: Postdevelopmental approaches in environmental early childhood education (with Professor Jayne Osgood and Claire Walsh, Routledge) and Researching Childhoodnature (with Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, Springer).
Hannah contributes to undergraduate teaching in Early Childhood Education and Working with Children, Young People and Families. Her teaching explores creative, playful, ethical and generative approaches that foster collaboration and challenge. Hannah is interested in experimenting with pedagogies that support learning in active, creative, imaginative and inclusive ways and is determined to explore non-hierarchical and relational approaches.
Hannah is a qualified teacher (QTS) and has worked in secondary schools as a History teacher and International Baccalaureate coordinator. Hannah has worked as a Lecturer in Education and Early Childhood Education at Middlesex University and University of Bath in Undergraduate, MA and EdD programmes. Hannah has also worked as an Intital Teacher Training tutor (History) at Middlesex University. Hannah is experienced in MA Dissertation supervisor and would be pleased to hear from potential PhD students in the following areas: environmental approaches in early childhood education and care, forest schools, play (including play in ECEC, outdoor play and playful pedagogical approaches in primary, secondary and tertiary education), intersectionality and ECEC, nature relations, climate change education and multispecies approaches in ECEC.
Hannah works with post developmental and posthuman philosophy to address educational inequities through playful and creative research methods and pedagogies. Hannah’s research is driven by a desire to reimagine education for better futures for children, people and planet.
Hannah’s doctoral research (University of Bath, awarded December 2024) was a post qualitative inquiry exploring nature relations and childhoodnature play in an urban forest school. Together with young children as co-researchers, she engaged with playful creative events to explore approaches to environmental early childhood education.
Hannah is a member of several research groups including:
She has also carried out research and evaluation for the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) and The Garden Classroom.
Hannah is a peer reviewer for several journals including: Children and Society, Australian Journal of Environmental Education and Gender and Education.