Ruth Hunt profile

Ruth Hunt

Senior Lecturer

Department of Early Childhood & Education , School Of Education And Communities

Ruth is a senior lecturer in education and has worked across Early Childhood, Education and Initial Teacher Education over the past 9 years at UEL. Her teaching and research are informed by a Children’s Rights perspective. She has been a course leader for two undergraduate courses at UEL and currently leads modules on the BA Primary Education with Qualified Teaching Status course.

Qualifications

  • PGCE
  • MA Education
  • QTS

Areas Of Interest

  • Critical Realism
  • Primary Education
  • Values-Based Teaching
  • Pedagogies for well-being
Ruth Hunt profile

OVERVIEW

Ruth is an experienced Early Years and KS1 teacher and has enjoyed teaching in inner-city London. Ruth combined her role as a class teacher with that of a specialist Forest School teacher. Ruth has an Early Years PGCE and an MA in Education and has been Vice-Chair of Governors for a primary school. Ruth has a background in teaching English as an Additional Language and English for Academic Purposes in London, mainland Europe and Asia. Ruth is currently working on her PhD, exploring participant experiences of school-based interventions in primary schools.

Ruth is particularly interested in Social and Emotional Wellbeing in schools, the ways in which we think about children's behaviour and how these inform our pedagogy. Within Higher Education, Ruth is interested in how lecturers’ pedagogy is informed by their values.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Ruth is a PhD student at UEL in the School of Education and Communities. Her research focus is a Critical Realist Evaluation of a Social and Emotional Intervention in an English primary school.

Publications

Recent

Chapters

  • Crutchley, R. and Hunt, R. (2018) ‘Early Intervention and Transition.’ in, Crutchley, R. (ed.) Special Needs in the Early Years: Partnership and Participation. London: Sage
  • Hunt, R. (2018) ‘Models of SEN Provision: The Inclusion Debate’ in, Crutchley, R. (ed.) Special Needs in the Early Years: Partnership and Participation. London: Sage
  • Hunt, R. and Newbold, A. (2018) ‘Continuing Professional Development for practitioners working with children with SEND in the Early Years.’ in, Crutchley, R. (ed.) Special Needs in the Early Years: Partnership and Participation. London: Sage

TEACHING

  • Programme Leader: Early Childhood Education and Care

  • Senior Lecturer: Early Childhood programmes, including Early Childhood Studies, Early Childhood with Special Education, Early Childhood with Health Promotion, and Early Childhood with Psychology.

MODULES

  • Module leader: ED5075 Research Methods
  • Module leader: ED6070 Values-Based Teaching
  • Module leader: ED6097 Teaching And Learning Specialism: Applied Project School Based Training UEL tutor

External roles

Ruth is an External Examiner and mentor for primary education courses with QTS at other Higher Education institutions.