Ceri Morgan

Courses taught:

• Education (Postgraduate)
• Primary Education Studies (Undergraduate)
• Early Childhood Studies (Graduate Practitioner) (Undergraduate)

Ceri teaches on a range of Education courses across the postgraduate and undergraduate degree portfolios. Her key research interests are in language learning and teaching, multilingualism, child voice and participation, and family-based learning.

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Background

Ceri has an eclectic background in education, having worked as a language teacher with learners of all ages and in a variety of contexts. She previously taught English at two universities in Paris and set up and managed a language school in the UK, developing courses in several languages and offering children’s classes – from babies and toddlers, through to GCSE and A level. In 2011, Ceri received the Piccolingo Award from the European Commission for her work promoting early language learning to parents. Ceri has also been a home educator for more than 25 years, which has inspired her research interests in child-led pedagogies and in how families nurture and negotiate learning.

Ceri’s time at Anglia Ruskin University began with her MA in Education with Early Childhood and she subsequently became an Associate Lecturer, before joining as a full-time member of the Education team. Ceri is an active researcher, and her interdisciplinary PhD uses the participatory Mosaic Approach, including play- and art-based methods, to explore young children’s perspectives on their language learning and developing language identities. She is interested in how families construct their family language policy, how they support their children to learn languages, and children’s agentic and creative responses to the languages they encounter.

Spoken Languages

• English
• French

Research interests

• Language learning and teaching
• Multilingualism
• Language, communication and literacy in Early Childhood
• Children’s rights and child voice
• Children’s participation in research
• Family-based learning and home education
• Family Language Policy

Teaching

Ceri teaches on a range of modules across the MA Education, BA Primary Education Studies and BA Early Childhood degree portfolios, and supervises postgraduate and undergraduate major projects.

Qualifications

• Working towards PhD in Education and Applied Linguistics, Anglia Ruskin University
• MA Education with Early Childhood, Anglia Ruskin University
• PG Cert Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University
• BA (Hons) French and Italian, University of Hull

Memberships, editorial boards

• Founder and Convenor – BAAL Research Involving Children Special Interest Group (RICH SIG)
• British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) – member
• Centre for Education Research on Identities and Inequalities (CERII), ARU – member
• Early Childhood Research Group, ARU – member
• Association for Language Learning (ALL) – member
• Early Language Learning Research Association (ELLRA) – member
• OMEP – member
• UKLA – member
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Recent presentations and conferences

‘Foreign language learning as a route to family multilingualism: a participatory approach to understand family-based learning and young children’s perspectives’ paper presented at the Family Language Policy Conference, University of Galway, October 2024

‘Speaking it in the family: agency, emotion and identity in family-based foreign language learning in early childhood’ paper presented at the British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Essex, September 2024

‘Family-based foreign language learning in early childhood: agency, emotion and identity’ paper presented at the AHESS Faculty Research Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, June 2024

‘Constructing multilingual identities through family-based foreign language learning in early childhood’ poster presented at the British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, University of York, August 2023

‘Constructing multilingual identities through family-based foreign language learning in early childhood’ paper presented at the Seventeenth Annual Postgraduate Researcher Conference [online] – prize winner, Anglia Ruskin University, July 2023

‘A participatory approach to working with young children in family multilingualism research’ paper presented at the Researching Family Multilingualism: Multiling Winter School, University of Oslo, February 2023