Yinka Olusoga is a historian of childhood and education in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Herr research focuses on the discursive construction of children and childhood in the educational policy, political debate, art and popular culture, in the present and in the past.
Kate Cowan is an early years specialist researching children’s play and communication from a multimodal perspective. Based at UCL Knowledge Lab, her research covers areas including literacy, creativity and digital technologies. Kate’s work also involves developing multimodal methodologies, video-based methods and participatory approaches with children.Â
In this week’s podcast Yinka and Kate are interviewed by BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson, on how children’s play has changed over the pandemic and how children have adapted.