I hope to share the happiness of receiving this Young Scholar Award with my supervisors, colleagues, students, and friends who support me in this journey. Their support is the ultimate power for me to move on.

Creativity and Culture: How our #creativity is shaped by our #culture? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Warmest welcome to all of you! 🥰Alfredo BAUTISTA Dr. Teresa Fowler 🌸 Luis Armando Gandin Ian Hardy Suzannie Leung Wayne J. Martino Associate Professor Glenda McGregor Dr. Valentina Migliarini Ashley Simpson Juliet Thondhlana Qiaohui Xue 薛乔珲

Deeply appreciated the great effort from Prof. John McKendrick and the team. I am delighted to learn from play experts all over the world and contribute my thoughts about digital play in this new publication of IPA. #IPAGlasgow2023

Film night with our friends Tokyo Play, IPAGlasgow2023 supported by the the GB Sasakawa Foundation. Everyone’s settled in for the premiere screening outside Japan of documentary Yume Park.

I am very pleased to share that my paper is now published Open Access! Leung, S. K. Y. & Choi, W. Y. (2023). Teachers’ perceptions of technical affordances in early visual arts education. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… European Early Childhood Edu. Research Journal

Explaining kindergarten teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding early visual arts education: a perspective from the theory of planned behavior tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

An explanatory study of kindergarten teachers’ teaching behaviours in their visual arts classrooms authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S07…

Outstanding presentation Y2 students The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK studying to be secondary Mathematics teachers about research into #curriculumleadership 🌟 Brilliant to hear student voices about teachers experience of curriculum collaboration & innovation EdIS Glasgow School of Education Douglas Hutchison

Pedagogy, Culture & Society (PCS) is calling for special issue proposals 2025! We suggested some possible topics but are always open to critical perspectives on PCS. Details 👉 sallypirie.com/uncategorized/… Taylor&Francis News T&F Education Research Dr. Sally Pirie @vinaadriany

Our editorial board members Alicja R. Sadownik & Adrijana VJ published book about parental involvement in early childhood education and care🙌 you are welcome to read, download and share with your colleagues 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

GCRG is hosting a visiting scholar Dr Suzannie Leung this May, from The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK. She will deliver two seminars and will explore new collaborations with Nottingham Global Childhoods Research Group UoN Education members. See you in May, Suzannie! 😍

With my great colleague and friend, Dr. Suzannie Leung, from Chinese University of Hong Kong, giving her our cute “Edu the ECE Monkey” at AERA 2024 in Philly. Always great to see Suzannie!

You may find it interesting to see how children’s knowledge construction of computational thinking happened in a play-based classroom in Hong Kong. Full article at Early Child Development and Care: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Very glad to join AERA 2024 to present a paper in Prof. Li Hui and Prof. Christine Wang’s symposium on exploring how CT integrates with early mathematics through animation arts. Definitely got so many insights from other presenters and colleagues in this conference. Amazing!

I am delighted that my single-author paper, Listening to Hong Kong Children’s Perspectives through Pretend Play, has been published British Educational Research Journal Lots of thanks for the Guest Editor Dr Yuwei Xu 徐玉炜 and the reviewers for their wonderful support! bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…

Warmest welcome to Dr Suzannie Leung Suzannie Leung The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK from both staff & students Nottingham Global Childhoods Research Group UoN Education nd our geese & ducks Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN. She is currently presenting her research on early visual arts education; & will be here for two weeks as visiting scholar.

Pan, C. S., Leung, S. K. Y.* & & Wan, S. W. Y. (2024). Exploring Chinese kindergarten teachers’ identities and emotions: A sociocultural perspective. Teaching and Teacher Education. doi.org/10.1016/j.tate… Free download the article before August 4, 2024: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jGKz_,1h%7E…

Leung, S. K. Y.*, Wu, J., & Ho, T. H. (2024). Early childhood visual arts education: Teachers’ content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and challenges. The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher. doi.org/10.1007/s40299…

Leung, S. K. Y.*, Wu, J., Li, J. W., Lam, Y. & Ng. O. (2024). Examining young children’s computational thinking through animation art. Early Childhood Education Journal. doi.org/10.1007/s10643…