Professor Amanda Bateman

Professor Early Years

School of Education and Social Work

Email:: amanda.bateman@bcu.ac.uk

Amanda Bateman is a Professor of Early Years at Birmingham City University. She has many years of experience in early childhood education, beginning her career as an early childhood practitioner in Wales and then completing a PhD in children’s interactions at Swansea University in 2010.

Professor Bateman has many years of experience as an early childhood education academic at Waikato University, New Zealand and re-established the early childhood undergraduate degrees accredited by the Welsh Government at Swansea University. Her research involves collecting video and audio data of children’s interactions and transcribing and analysing it using a conversation analysis approach. Professor Bateman has led two funded projects from the New Zealand Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) spanning four years.

She has recently been a co-investigator on a recent third TLRI and New Zealand Marsden project investigating how early childhood centres support refugee children and families to belong in New Zealand whilst maintaining their cultural heritage. Findings from these projects have been disseminated through national and international conference presentations, academic journal articles, book chapters and books, including Early Childhood Education: The Co-Production of Knowledge and Relationships, and the co-edited Children’s Knowledge-in-interaction: Studies in Conversation Analysis; Children and Mental Health Talk: Perspectives on Social Competence; and Talking with children: A handbook for early childhood education.

Distinctions

New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) Judith Duncan Award for Early Childhood Research 2021
Waikato University Early Career Research Excellence Award 2015
Teacher Education Forum Aotearoa New Zealand (TEFANZ) Emerging Teacher Educator Award 2014
Waikato University Faculty of Education Teaching Excellence Award 2012
Awards for Best Paper and Best Presentation from the Australian New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference for: Bateman, A. (2011) Watch, listen and learn: observing children's social conduct through communication. In Conference Proceedings of the Australian New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference. 7 July 2011.

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Teaching

Research

Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

Weblinks:

Authored Book

Bateman, A. (2016) Conversation Analysis and Early Childhood Education: The co-production of knowledge and relationships. Hampshire: Ashgate/Routledge.

Edited Books

Bateman, A. and Church, A. (2017). Children and knowledge-in-interaction: Studies in conversation analysis. Singapore: Springer
Lamerichs, J., Danby, S., Bateman, A., and Ekberg, S. (2020). Children and Mental Health Talk: Perspectives on Social Competence. Palgrave Macmillan
Church, A. and Bateman, A. (2022) Talking with children: A handbook for early childhood education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edited Special Issue of Journal:

Bateman, A. and Kern, F. (2022). (Special Issue Eds.) Children’s Inclusion and Exclusion - Part 1, Research on Children and Social Interaction, 6(1).
Bateman, A. and Kern, F. (2023). (Special Issue Eds.) Children’s Inclusion and Exclusion - Part II, Research on Children and Social Interaction, 7(1).

Publications (2022 onwards):

Bateman, A. and Mitchell, L. (2023). Drawing as an interactional resource for supporting stories about belonging, International Journal of Early Childhood https://doi.org/10.1007/s13158-023-00369-8
Bateman, A. and Church, A. (2022 publication) Early Childhood Education and Conversation Analysis within a social justice framing Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education
Bateman, A. and Cekaite, A. (2022) Language as context: A case of early literacy practices, International Journal of Early Years Education. 30:1, 55-70, DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2022.2029365
Gunnarsdottir, B. & Bateman, A. (2022). Initiating conversations in the toddler peer group, Research on Children and Social Interaction 5(3)
Bateman, A. (2022). Children’s co-construction of gender segregated spaces, Research on Children and Social Interaction. Research on Children and Social Interaction 5(3)
Bateman, A & Mitchell, L. (2022) Socialising a pedagogy of care in a New Zealand early childhood refugee centre In C. Conn and A. Murphy (Eds.) Inclusive Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education. Pp 79-93. London; Routledge.
Bateman, A. (2022). Play, early language and communication. In J. Waters (Ed.) An introduction to Play. Pp 68-80. London, Sage.
Bateman, A. (2022) Enduring storytelling dispositions in early childhood education. In Anna Filipi, Binh Thanh Ta & Maryanne Theobald (Eds.) Storytelling practices in home and educational contexts: Perspectives from Conversation Analysis. Pp 101-121. Singapore; Springer.
Church, A. and Bateman, A. (2022). ‘Introduction’ in A. Church & A. Bateman (Eds.) Talking with children: A handbook for early childhood education. Pp 68-80. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press
Church, A., Bateman, A. and Danby, S. (2022). ‘Conversation analysis for Early Childhood Teachers’ in A. Church & A. Bateman (Eds.) Talking with children: A handbook for early childhood education. Pp 68-80. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press
Bateman, A. (2022). ‘Participation’ in A. Church & A. Bateman (Eds.) Talking with children: A handbook for early childhood education. Pp 68-80. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press

Conference presentations (2022 onwards):

2024

Bateman, A., Ludgate, S., and O’Connor, J. (2024). Exploring digital technology affordances for creativity, storytelling and relationships with media. Presentation for BECERA, 13^th Feb 2024

2023

Bateman, A. (2023). Infant agency in ECEC mealtimes. Data session at UCLA co-op Lab, USA (virtually), 18^th October 2023
Panel convenor for European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) conference, Estoril conference centre, Lisbon, Portugal. 30^th August – 2^nd September 2023.
Panel Title: Exploring infant and toddler Curiosity, Agency and Participation through an ethnomethodological conversation analysis approach:
Bateman, A. (2023). Infant agency in feeding interactions: Exploring positive eating strategies in ECEC settings. Paper to be presented at the EECERA conference, Estoril conference centre, Lisbon, Portugal. 30^th August – 2^nd September 2023.
Church, A., Bateman, A., and Cohrssen, C. (2023). Embodied collaboration for concept development: How teachers can support children’s spatial thinking. Paper to be presented at the EECERA conference, Estoril conference centre, Lisbon, Portugal. 30^th August – 2^nd September 2023.
Invited plenary workshop presentation ICCA:
Church, A. & Bateman, A. (2023). Studying interactions in early childhood education. Workshop for International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Brisbane, July 2023
Panel co-convenor for International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) conference, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium: July 9^th – 14^th 2023
Panel Title: Recruitment of environmental resources for interactional purposes in the early years:
Bateman, A. and Kern, F. (2023) Translanguaging in Welsh traditional storytelling activities. Paper to be presented at the IPrA conference, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium: July 9th – 14th 2023
Church, A., Bateman, A. and Cohrssen, C. Recruiting objects to scaffold spatial thinking in early learning environments. Paper to be presented at the IPrA conference, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium: July 9th – 14th 2023
Bateman, A. (2023). Teacher offers to infants during early childhood centre lunchtimes. Data session at EC interaction Sweden lab 2^nd June 2023 (virtually)
Invited speaker for Manchester University Children & Childhood Research Group
Education & Social Research Institute ‘Methodological Developments in Early Years Research’ symposium: Bateman, A. (2023). An ethnomethodological conversation analysis approach to early childhood research. Manchester University. 18th April 2023
Katila, J. & Bateman, A. (2023). Triadic breastfeeding interaction in Finnish healthcare settings: Initiating and responding to trouble talk. Data Session at EMCA ECEC Lab, Melbourne University, Australia (virtually), 19^th April 2023
Bateman, A. & Katila, J. (2023). Overlapping participation frameworks in triadic breastfeeding interactions in Finnish healthcare settings. Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Vectors 2023 Conference. Moscow, Russia (virtually), 22^nd April 2023
Katila, J. & Bateman, A. (2023). Triadic breastfeeding interaction in Finnish healthcare settings. Data Session at Tampere University, Finland (virtually), 3^rd April 2023
Katila, J. & Bateman, A. (2023). Triadic breastfeeding interaction in Finnish healthcare settings. Data session at UCLA co-op Lab, USA (virtually), 8^th March 2023

2022

Invited plenary workshop presentation DMCA:

Church, A. & Bateman, A. (2022). Studying interactions in early childhood education. Workshop to be run for International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Digital Media Conversation Analysis (DMCA) workshop (Oct-Nov 22 - online)
Bateman, A. (2022). Early childhood education in New Zealand and Wales: Provocations from international perspectives. Paper presented at CRN (collaborative research network) Cardiff, Wales (virtually), 15^th March 2022
Bateman, A. & Church, A. (2022). Questions in ECE. Paper presented at UCLA co-op Lab (virtually), 27^th April 2022
Bateman, A. (2022). Socialising a pedagogy of care in a New Zealand early childhood refugee centre: Implications for a Welsh context. Inclusion and Early Childhood Education and Care: Research in the Welsh Context (Virtually) 11^th May, 2022.
Bateman, A. (2022). Play, early language and communication, for online conference: Introduction to Play (Virtually) 18^th May 2022
Church, A. & Bateman, A. (2022). Applied conversation analysis for early childhood education. Workshop to be run for International Digital Media Conversation Analysis (virtually), Nov 2022