Ms Jenny Carey
Senior Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Education
Personal statement
Jenny Carey is a core member of the Early Years and Literacy Team at Strathclyde.
She works with Early Years Professionals and Teachers to develop early years and/or literacy pedagogy to support and enhance practice.
Jenny is the Course Director for Masters in Education, Early Years Pedagogue course(EYP), and was successfully awarded Scottish Government funding to support aspects of workforce development in and across the Early Years (/courses/postgraduatetaught/earlyyearspedagogue/).
Over the last three years she has worked to evaluate aspects of EYP M.Ed. student鈥檚 learning and its links to changes in practice in the early years. She has also led on a range of Early Years graduate knowledge exchange activities.
Jenny leads on a range of undergraduate and masters modules related to聽 Early Years curriculum and pedagogy and enjoys her role as Early Years Scotland Book Reviewer.聽
Her work in literacy has focussed on the development of teacher鈥檚 understandings.聽 She has worked across local authorities to explore ways in which collaborative work, through the Strathclyde Literacy Clinic approach, supports teacher agency and responsiveness and knowledge in literacy learning and teaching (reading and writing).聽
Her PhD studies is examining aspects of identity, agency and professional knowledge for preservice and early career literacy teachers.聽
Jenny leads on the undergraduate Strathclyde Literacy and Numeracy Clinic as well as undergraduate literacy modules.聽
During her time at Strathclyde, she has worked on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including the BACP, BA in Primary Education, PGDE Primary and the M.Ed. Programme. She contributes to Learning & Teaching for GTC registered teachers, Early Years Workforce Development and Literacy Learning and Teaching.
Before joining the University Jenny had experience teaching in both England and Scotland. During her time in management of schools she had responsibility for monitoring literacy development and attainment across the Early Years and Primary alongside a focus for learning and teaching in the early years.
Publications
- Shaw Nicky, ,
- (2022)
- Crichton Vicky, Carwood-Edwards Jean, Ryan Janine, McTaggart James, Collins Janice, MacConnell Mary Pat, Wallace Lesley, Diamond Catherine, , , MacAulay Liz, Shaw Nicky, Gill Catriona, Johnston Kathleen
- (2020)
- Ellis Sue, Rowe Adele, , Smith Vivienne
- Developing Habits of Noticing in Literacy and Language Classrooms Research and practice Across Professional Cultures (2020) (2020)
- Ellis Susan, Thomson Jane,
- Improving Reading and Reading Engagement in the 21st Century International Research and Innovations (2017) (2017)
- ,
- (2016)
- Marwick Helen, , , Martlew Joan
- European Early Childhood Educational Research Association Conference, Crete, Greece, Sept 2014 (2014)
Professional Activities
- Associate Editor
- 2026
- Recipient
- 19/8/2025
- Participant
- 15/5/2025
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 8/11/2024
- Organiser
- 13/3/2024
- Member
- 14/4/2016
Projects
- Blake, Allan (Principal Investigator) Carey, Jenny (Principal Investigator) Aitchison, Kirsty (Principal Investigator)
- The purpose of this research project is to explore how primary school teachers develop their writing pedagogy through taking part in creative writing with professional authors. The study takes place within the context of a professional learning programme led by the Scottish Book Trust, which provides teachers with opportunities to collaborate with authors of children's literature, with a view to making creative writing more meaningful for teachers and for the children they teach. Knowing that literacy is a key factor in children鈥檚 life chances, and with creative writing viewed as an act of subjectification through which individuals might be permitted to impose their definition of the world on the world, the value of the project is in revealing how teachers鈥� accounts of collaborating with authors during the process of creative writing might be interpreted thoughtfully enough to become a model of transformative pedagogical practice.
- 01-Jan-2026 - 01-Jan-2027
- Carey, Jenny (Project Lead) Aitchison, Kirsty (Project Lead)
- 27-Jan-2025 - 19-Jan-2025
- Carey, Jenny (Project Lead) Aitchison, Kirsty (Project Lead)
- 13-Jan-2024 - 20-Jan-2024
- Carey, Jenny (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2023
- Carey, Jenny (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2020
- Ellis, Susan (Principal Investigator) Carey, Jenny (Co-investigator)
- 07-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2018
Contact
Ms
Jenny
Carey
Senior Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Education
Email: jenny.carey@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8035