Dr. Theodora Papatheodorou

Dr. Theodora Papatheodorou, PhD, a senior academic and researcher, is the Research Fellow and Manager at Norland Institution. Previously, Theodora served as the early childhood education and care adviser at Save the Children UK working in Sub-Saharan, Southeast Asian and South American countries, and conducted consultancy for UNICEF in Tanzania, Kosovo and Rwanda. Prior to this, she was Director of Research and Professor of Early Childhood at Anglia Ruskin University and held several posts in different universities in the UK and overseas for over 15 years.

Theodora has conducted several research focusing on pedagogy, early childhood education, and teaching and learning in higher education. Her latest research focuses on autism among very young children, and home-based educare, while relational pedagogy remains central to her work. She co-edited (with Janet Moyles) the first book on relational pedagogies, titled ‘Learning Together in the Early Years. Exploring relational pedagogy’ (published by Routledge in 2009) and recently conducted an annotated bibliography on ‘Relational Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education’ on behalf of Oxford Annotated Bibliographies. Theodora has a long-standing commitment to equity and equality in education to promote and achieving educational and social inclusion, and justice.