Grace Clifton

Profile

Before coming to the Open University, I worked as a Modern Languages teacher at secondary aged level.  My first contact with the OU came as an Associate Lecturer on several courses within the Inclusive Education programme.  I was appointed as a Staff Tutor in 2005 and am currently seconded to the Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning as a Lecturer in Childhood and Youth.  I sit on the Editorial Board of the Ethnography and Education journal and am a member of the Third Culture Kid research network.  More recently I have been appointed as Research and Academic Adviser to the Service Children Support Network.

Teaching Interests

Head of Qualifications - Childhood and Youth Studies

Module chair, EK310/EK311, (Early years Focus on) Research with Children and Young People

EK313 Production team

Research Interests

The educational experiences of armed forces children, mobility in childhood, ethnographic research methods.

Current Research

Army Childhoods