Stephanie Evans

Profile

Biography

Stephanie has worked as a early years and primary teacher in Wiltshire, Staffordshire and across Forces schools in Germany and Cyprus. The latter experiences led to an interest in mental health and wellbeing. Stephanie took this into her first role within Higher Education at St Martin’s College and the Unviersity of Cumbria. Here she worked as an Early Years Senior Lecturer, and then as a Principal Lecturer for 13 years. In this role she looked after the undergraduate provision for ITE.

Stephanie has taken a role as Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill focussing on SEND and Mental health and wellbeing.

Research Interests

Research interests include having a strong interest in child centred and child focussed research. Consideration for new teachers mental health and wellbeing and workload has been explored through the Cooper,H. and Elton-Chalcraft,S.(eds.) (2022) ‘Professional Studies in Primary Education. 4th edition.Los Angeles: Sage with a chapter on ‘Teacher Wellbeing’ written with J.Glazzard.

Teaching

Stephanie has taught across a range of programmes  and is contributing to the SEND and Mental health curriculums.  She has responsibility for the distant placements, in particular Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. She leads on the transition and modelling ITAPS for the Post graduate programmes.