Doctor Lorna Arnott
Reader
吃瓜tv Institute of Education
Personal statement
Lorna Arnott is a Reader in the 吃瓜tv Institute of Education, specialising in Early Childhood Lived Experiences and Play. She previously did a term as Director for Early Years within the Institute.听
The majority of her work focuses on children's exepriences before the age of five and therefore much of her research and teaching focuses on nursery provision.
Lorna completed her Ph.D at the School of Education, University of Stirling in 2011, focusing on young children鈥檚 social interactions around technologies in preschool.
Internationally, Lorna is the founder and co-convener for the European Early Childhood Educational Research Association (EECERA) .听 She is also Deputy Editor for the and an Assistant Editor for the J.
Lorna is the Editor of , SAGE, Co-Editor of and Co-Editor of .
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 2023
- Recipient
- 2022
- Recipient
- 2022
- Recipient
- 2013
Publications
- McLaughlin Katrina, Bunting Lisa, Connolly Paul, Winter Karen, Flewitt Rosie, El听Gemayel Sandra, , Dalziell Andrea, Gillen Julia, Goodall Janet, Liu Min-Chen, Savadova Sabina, Timmins Sarah
- Child: Care, Health and Development Vol 52 (2026)
- Goodall Janet, Flewitt Rosie, Gemayel Sandra El, , Dalziell Andy, Gillen Julia, Savadova Sabina, Timmins Sarah, Liu Min-Chen, Winter Karen
- Educational Review, pp. 1-26 (2025)
- Winter Karen, Flewitt Rosie, El Gemayel Sandra, Bunting Lisa, , Connolly Paul, , Gillen Julia, Goodall Janet, Liu Min鈥怌hen, McLaughlin Katrina, Savadova Sabina, Timmins Sarah
- Children and Society Vol 39, pp. 995-1011 (2025)
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- International Journal of Early Years Education Vol 32, pp. 791-795 (2025)
- Martinez-lejarreta Loreain, ,
- International Journal of Early Years Education Vol 32, pp. 871-884 (2024)
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- Early Years Educator Vol 24, pp. 1-3 (2024)
Teaching
Lorna鈥檚 teaching generally covers:
- Early Childhood Education, specifically focused on children's experiences and play.听
- Qualitative research methods and those related to research with very young children.听
Lorna most often teaches on the BA Childhood Practice, Master's of Education Early Years Pedagogue, PGDE Nursery and the BA Education Nursery.听
Lorna is also interested in delivering research methods training, particularly in relation to qualitative approaches and contributes to both practice-based and academic research training.听
Lorna currently supervises PGR students at Masters, PhD and Ed.D level.
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Research Interests
Research Interests
Lorna鈥檚 research explores young children鈥檚 lived experiences and play, typically in relation to technology, creativity and social play for learning and development. 听 Her work attempts to understand how the environments and culture, children's agency and the artefacts children use contribute to learning and development.听 She is interested in a broader definition of technology which moves beyond the computer towards exploring technological toys, both digital and non-screen based.听 Lorna has completed a wealth of research in early childhood settings but more recently have explored informal learning contexts, such as the family home.听听
Secondly, Lorna's other research focuses on innovative methods for consulting with children in early childhood (typically under 6 years old).听 She's interesting in voice work broadly with young children.
Lorna is currently Co-I and Scottish lead for an ESRC project, Toddlers, Tech and Talk.听
Completed Students:
- Zainab Attar (Competed) - Innovative methods with young children and literacy. PhD.
- Loreain Martinez Lejarreta (completed) Developing young children's critical thinking skills through teacher-children interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care settings. PhD
- Marion Burns (Completed) Early education with a specific focus on transitions. Ed.D
- Jennifer Zike (Completed) Using Pupil Views Templates to investigate the development of thinking across children at point of school entry in Scotland. Ph.D
- Charlotte Allan (Completed) - Shared Experience: How attending Theatre for Early Years influences early attachment and bonding. MPhil.
Professional Activities
- Visiting researcher
- 2/2027
- Recipient
- 19/3/2026
- Recipient
- 18/11/2025
- Guest editor
- 2024
- Visiting researcher
- 2024
- Invited speaker
- 11/2023
Projects
- Nikou, Stavros (Principal Investigator) Anderson, Damien (Research Co-investigator) Arnott, Lorna (Co-investigator) Roper, Marc (Academic)
- The project will explore pupils and teachers understanding and experiences with AI aiming to enhance their AI literacy levels and develop AI-focused curriculum resources.
- 30-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Arnott, Lorna (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
- Arnott, Lorna (Principal Investigator)
- Full project FEC: 拢850,442, Funded Contribution 拢688,654); 吃瓜tv element 拢83,601.00.
- 06-Jan-2022 - 05-Jan-2024
- Moore, Iain (Principal Investigator) Arnott, Lorna (Co-investigator) Gray, Laura (Co-investigator)
- A project looking to increase the confidence of early years and early level primary practitioners in the delivery of science.
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023
- Wall, Kate (Co-investigator) Arnott, Lorna (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2022
- Wall, Kate (Co-investigator) Arnott, Lorna (Co-investigator)
- 拢6000 funding
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2022
Contact
Doctor
Lorna
Arnott
Reader
吃瓜tv Institute of Education
Email: lorna.arnott@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8109