Ms Gemma M Ryder
Senior Lecturer
Cass School of Education and Communities
Gemma M. Ryder is a Senior Lecturer in the Cass School of Education and Communities. She teaches on the foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate early childhood programmes. She is additionally an Adult Mental Health First Aider (MHFA) and a Higher Education MHFA Champion.
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ED 5.04, Stratford Campus
School of Education and Communities
Stratford Campus
Water Lane
London
E15 4LZ - G.Ryder@uel.ac.uk +442082236326
Gemma’s passion for working in early childhood began when she completed the NNEB Diploma In Nursery Nursing. Her involvement in the sector has seen her work in private and not-for-profit settings, which included a short visit to Joliet and Chicago to shadow practitioners and learn more about Head Start, Early Head Start and special education provision. She has worked in further education as an Early Years Work Placement Coordinator on the CACHE courses in early years and childcare. In addition to her role as a senior lecturer, Gemma has worked as an assessor, mentor and Programme Leader on the Early Years Initial Teacher Training (EYITT) pathways and acted as an External Validation Panel Member on Foundation and undergraduate degrees in early childhood and education courses. She has continued to develop her skills and expertise in early childhood through the completion of the Early Years Professional Status (EYPS), a Masters in Early Years Professional Practice and is completing a Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD), which focuses on prosocial development across the birth-to-three years age group in early childhood settings.
Early Years Professional
Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Overview
My Research Interests
My research interests are in early childhood leadership and workforce development. I am also interested in prosocial development, particularly with babies and toddlers.
- Developing leadership skills in young children
- Prosocial behavior and dispositions in the 0 – 3 years age group
- Working with families in challenging circumstances
- Developing practical skills on non-vocational degree pathways
- Early childhood leadership skills and experiences in practitioners with unrelated degrees.
- Leadership experiences of early childhood practitioners and professionals
- Professional safeguarding
- Supporting the needs of early childhood staff who have special educational needs, specific learning differences or mental health conditions.
- Early Years Professional Status and Early Years Initial Teacher Training
- Early childhood undergraduate and postgraduate training and experience
- Experiences of online learners
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Research
Publications
Funding
Interests
Portfolio
ED3091 Placement in
Context: Play and Learning
ED6032 Leading and
Managing Partnerships in the Early Years
ED7001 Research
Methods and Dissertation in Early Childhood Leadership and Practice
ED7410 Critical Reflection
on Leadership of Practice in Early Childhood
Foundation Modules:
ED3091 Placement in Context: Play and Learning
ED3094 Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Undergraduate Modules:
ED6016 Leading and Managing Partnerships in Early Years
Postgraduate Modules:
ED7001 Research Methods and Dissertation in Early Childhood Leadership and Practice
ED7410 Critical Reflection on Leadership of Practice in Early Childhood