Iram Siraj-Blatchford is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her recent research projects have included:  An Evaluation of the Foundation Phase across Wales, and she is a principal investigator of the major DCSF 15-year study on Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE 3-16) Project (1997-2013), and of the influential Researching Effective Pedagogy in the Early Years project (REPEY). Iram is interested in early childhood education, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and the impact of learning in school and home. She is an expert in mixed method and qualitative research analysis and case study work and is currently working on longitudinal studies as a principal investigator in a number of countries including the UK, Australia and Ireland. She has always been particularly interested in undertaking research which aims to combat disadvantage and to give children and families from these backgrounds a head start. She is a specialist, early years advisor to governments and ministers in the UK where she is conducting reviews of research on child outcomes for the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes (C4EO, 2008-2010) and advises governments overseas.

  Iram@327matters.org

Iram is the President of the British Association for Early Childhood Education. She has published over 40 major research reports and books and over 120 peer reviewed articles and chapters in scholarly books. Iram has been an honorary visiting professor in many countries and is currently Visiting Professor at the Universities of Melbourne, Hong Kong IEd. and Swansea. Her recent publications include:

Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2010) ‘Learning in the Home and at School: How working class children succeed against the odds’, British Educational Research Journal (in press)

Siraj-Blatchford I. (2009) ‘Conceptualising progression in the pedagogy of play and sustained  shared thinking in early childhood education: A Vygotskian perspective’ in Educational and Child Psychology 26 (2) June

Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2009) ‘Early Childhood Education’ in Maynard, T. and Thomas, N. (Eds.) An Introduction to Early Childhood Studies, (2nd Edition) London: Sage Publications

Siraj-Blatchford, I (2008) ‘Understanding the Relationship between Curriculum, Pedagogy and Progression in Learning in Early Childhood ‘ inHong Kong Journal of Early Childhood Education 7 ( 2) pp 3-13

Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Manni, L.(2008) “Would you like to tidy up now?” An analysis of Adult Questioning in the English Foundation Stage’ in Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 28 (1) pp 5 – 22

Siraj-Blatchford, I., Sylva, K., Taggart, B., Sammons, P. and Melhuish, E. (2008) ' Towards the Transformation of Early Childhood Practice’. The Cambridge Journal of Education. 38 (1) 23–36

 Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2007) Creativity, Communication and Collaboration: The Identification of Pedagogic Progression in Sustained Shared Thinking in Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1 (2) pp3-23

 Siraj-Blatchford, I., Clarke, K & Needham, M. (Eds) (2007) The Team Around the Child: Multi-agency working in the early years, Stoke-on Trent, Trentham Books

Siraj-Blatchford, I. & Manni,L. (2007) Effective Leadership in the Early Years Sector: The ELEYS study. Issues in Practice Series, Institute of Education, University of London

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