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Dr Victoria Cooper
Profile summary
- Central Academic Staff
- Snr Lecturer (Childhood & Youth Studies)
- Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies
- School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport
- Childhood, Youth and Sport
- victoria.cooper
Professional biography
Victoria Cooper is senior lecturer in childhood and youth studies at The Open University Faculty of Education and Language Studies. From 2017 - 2019 Victoria was Co-Director of The Children’s Research Centre.
Victoria has extensive experience in education of teaching, training, research and practice in the early years and has taught students in further and higher education at vocational, professional development, undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level. Victoria’s practice experience includes work as an early year’s teacher, lecturer in further and higher education and staff tutor supporting tutor professional development.
Victoria has extensive experience as an internal and external examiner.
Research interests
Areas of interest
- Children and young people’s identity development
- Childhood and adolescent mental health
- Qualitative research methodologies – developing participatory, responsive approaches
- Children and young people's experiences living with a loved one who is seriously ill
Recent funded research and knowledge exchange include:
- Researching extent of need for support amongst children and young people living through a family health crisis (Hope Support 2017), launched at the Houses of Parliament, 27th March 2018. Access the research report here.
- Researching children and young people’s views on children’s rights/Amnesty International.
- Researching the integration of human geography into A level Geography with the Field Studies Council
Teaching interests
E102 Introduction to childhood studies and psychology (moduel team and chair production)
E232 Exploring childhood and youth (Co chair production)
KE206 Working with children and young people: Making a difference (Co Chair production)
E809 Frameworks for Critical Practice (module team)
E808 Children's and young people's worlds (module team)
EK313 Understanding research with children and young people (module team and presentation chair)
EK312 Working with children, young people and families (module team)
E807 Children and young people's worlds (presentation chair)
External collaborations
External collaborations
Amnesty International UK
Hope Support Services
The Field Studies Council
UNICEF
Research Activity
Externally funded projects
Research into extent of need for HOPE Support amongst children and young people (CYP)
| Role | Start date | End date | Funding source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co-investigator | 01/Apr/2017 | 30/Nov/2017 | HOPE Hope Support Services |
This small scale research and dissemination project aims to raise public, media and stakeholder awareness of the scale of need nationally for Hope Support Services (or similar) and awareness of the work Hope is currently doing with a view to securing funding to carry out further research and extend services. The initial aim would be met through a rapid, indicative research report and launch event within a one-year time-frame. | |||
Publications
Journal articles
Payler, Jane; Cooper, Victoria and Bennett, Stephanie
Children & Society, 34(1) (pp. 62-77)
Representing children’s rights from discussion through to illustration and interpretation (2019-05-09)
Chamberlain, Liz and Cooper, Victoria
Research Intelligence(139) (pp. 13-14)
Lost in translation: exploring childhood identity using photo-elicitation (2017)
Cooper, Victoria L.
Children's Geographies, 15(6) (pp. 625-637)
Authored books
Cooper, Victoria L.; Montgomery, Heather and Sheehy, Kieron
ISBN : 978-0241270509 | Publisher : Pelican
Book chapters
Bennett, Stephanie; Cooper, Victoria and Payler, Jane
In: Robb, Martin; Montgomery, Heather and Thompson, Rachel eds. Critical Practice with Children and Young People (2nd edition) (pp. 143-160)
ISBN : 9781447352846 | Publisher : Policy press | Published : Bristol
Listening to children (2017-06-16)
Cooper, Victoria and Kellett, Mary
In: Moyles, Janet; Georgeson, Jan and Payler, Jane eds. Beginning Teaching, Beginning Learning in Early Years and Primary Education
ISBN : 9780335226962 | Publisher : McGraw Hill Education / Open University Press | Published : Milton Keynes
Children's developing identity (2014-11-30)
Cooper, Victoria
In: Reed, Michael and Rosie, Walker eds. A Critical Companion to Early Childhood (pp. 281-296)
ISBN : 9781446259269 | Publisher : Sage | Published : London
Education and the impact of schooling (2014)
Cooper, Victoria
In: Farrington-Flint, Lee ed. An introduction to childhood studies and child psychology (pp. 143-164)
Publisher : The Open University | Published : Milton Keynes
Designing research for different purposes. (2013-12-10)
Cooper, Victoria
In: Clark, Alison; Hammersley, Martyn; Flewitt, Rosie and Robb, Martin eds. Understanding research with children and young people
ISBN : 9781446274927 | Publisher : Sage | Published : London
Ethnographic practitioner research (2011)
Cooper, Victoria and Ellis, Carole
In: Callan, Sue and Reed, Michael eds. Work-based Research in the Early Years: Positioning Yourself as a Researcher (pp. 47-61)
ISBN : 9780857021755 | Publisher : Sage | Published : London
Extending practice: promoting participation and evaluating professional roles (2011)
Whalley, Mary; Cooper, Victoria; Callan, Sue and Drury, Rose
In: Drury, Rose and Paige-Smith, Alice eds. Extending practice: promoting participation and evaluating professional roles (pp. 0-5)
Publisher : The Open University | Published : Milton Keynes
Supporting children’s personal, social and emotional development. (2011)
Browne, Naima; Paige-Smith, Alice and Cooper, Victoria
In: Drury, Rose and Paige-Smith, Alice eds. Book 1: Extending reflective practice: Leadership, learning and environments. (pp. 135-220)
Publisher : The Open University | Published : Milton Keynes
Distance learning and professional development (2009-10-29)
Cooper, Victoria
In: Reed, Michael and Canning, Natalie eds. Reflective Practice in the Early Years (pp. 143-155)
ISBN : 9781848601628 | Publisher : Sage Publications | Published : London
Children's Identity (2008)
Cooper, V.
In: Collins, J. and Foley, P. eds. Promoting Children's Well-being: Policy and Practice
ISBN : 9781847420596 | Publisher : Policy Press in association with the Open University Press | Published : Bristol, UK
Conference items
Cooper, Victoria; Narzisi, Katia; Simons, Joan; Tatlow-Golden, Mimi and Twiner, Alison
In : 2nd Digital Health and Wellbeing Conference (1-3 May 2018, Open University, Milton Keynes)
Other
Chamberlain, Liz; Afroze, Jiniya; Cooper, Victoria and Collins, Trevor
The Open University Children’s Research Centre and Amnesty UK International, Milton Keynes.
The need for support: Young people living through a family health crisis (2017)
Bennett, Stephanie; Cooper, Victoria and Payler, Jane
Hope support services, UK.
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