International Centre for Early Years Education seminar series

Reception Class Teacher Network (RCTN)

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 4.30pm (tea & coffee from 4pm), Room 0.24, Lakeside Building, Edge Hill University

Join a welcoming, collaborative hub designed to help you:

• Grow your practice – explore play-based learning, pedagogy, and early years research.
• Connect and share – exchange ideas, challenges, and successes with fellow reception teachers.
• Stay inspired – hear from expert guest speakers each half-term.
• Join for free – no cost, just great ideas, conversation, and community

All reception class teachers welcome.

Researching with parents and families: a networking invitation

26 November 2025, 11am – 12pm, Online via Microsoft Teams.

Are you involved in research that engages parents and families? Join us for an inclusive networking event designed to spark new connections, share insights, and foster meaningful collaboration beyond traditional academic circles.

Whether your focus is family mental health, the pivotal first 1001 days, or the evolving landscape of literacy – including health and digital literacies – this is a space to exchange ideas, build partnerships, and inspire innovation.

Why join us?

• Expand your network beyond familiar circles
• Share learning and best practices
• Discover collaborative opportunities across diverse research themes

This event is hosted jointly by ICEYE and iCARE. Open to all with interest or involvement.

Solutions to Perinatal Loneliness and Getting Started on Research Impact (online research seminar)

Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe, University of York

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 12pm-1pm, Online via Microsoft Teams

Join us for an inspiring online seminar where Ruth Naughton-Doe from the Mental Health Social Research Centre at the University of York will share detailed pathways to impact and transferable examples that can be adapted to your own research areas. Whether you’re working in health, social care, education, or beyond, Ruth’s approach offers practical strategies for embedding community engagement into impactful research.

Drawing from her NIHR Three Schools Mental Health Fellowship, Ruth will explore how collaboration with people with lived experience and frontline professionals can lead to creative, tangible outcomes — from digital zines for LGBTQ+ parents to walking groups that tackle perinatal loneliness. She’ll also discuss her latest project: a walking group intervention for perinatal Muslim women, launched in April 2025.

This session is ideal for researchers looking to make a difference through inclusive, community-led approaches to impact.