Dr Jane Dorrian

I started my career as a primary school teacher in the south Wales valleys and worked for several years in a nursery school before taking a secondement to be the LEA advisory teacher for early years. At the end of the secondment I took up a lecturing role on the Education and Early Childhood Studies degree programmes at University of Wales, Newport and during my time there I completed my doctorate. I then moved to Cardiff Metropolitan University where I worked as the Deputy Head of Department in the School of Education and Social Policy whilst contining to teach on the Early Childhood Studies and Primary Education programmes. In this role I was responsible for overseeing the implementation of a new personal tutoring programme within the school, and I also set up a fully equipped early education classroom that was used as a teaching resource for students.  In 2018 I became a Staff Tutor at the Open University.