Zoe currently supervises 5 doctoral students in the areas of creativity and creative pedagogies, art and design education, girls with autism and the teaching of spelling in Key Stage 2.
Publications
Lewis, Z., Clark, T., Vincent, K., Patel, V. & Munyard, J. (2025) Early childhood graduates in the workplace: experiences and perceptions. Available at: https://pure.bcu.ac.uk/admin/files/46212817/EARLYC_2.PDF
Lewis, Z. & Patel, V. (2025) Play: Investment or pleasure. In J. Brown & T. Clark (Eds) Debating Childhoods, London: Sage.
Taylor, C., Albin-Clark, J., Healey, K. Hogarth, H. Lewis, Z., Pihkala, S., Smith, S. L., Cranham, J. & Latto, L. (2024) What do doors do? Door storyings, matterings, adventurings and commonings. Qualitative Inquiry 30 (10) 830-847. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231196184
Riaz, S. & Lewis, Z. (2024) Encouraging children's personal, social and emotional development through outdoor play. BCU Education Journal Magazine, 4 (3) 48-51.
Lewis, Z. (2022) ‘Creative encounters: a new materialist interpretation of creativity in early childhood education’ EdD thesis, University of Sheffield. https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/oai_id/oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:30765
Hardaway & Lewis (2022) “I don’t think it’s out there enough”: Practitioners’ views on the status of Early Years Professionals in comparison to Qualified Teachers. BCU Education Journal Magazine, 2 (2) 41-47.
Lewis, Z. (2021) Policy and the image of the child: a critical analysis of drivers and levers in English early years curriculum policy, Early Years, 41:4, 321-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2018.1501552
Lewis, Z. (2021) What is effective pedagogy in the Reception Year? In V. Bower (ed) Debates in Primary Education. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 62-77.
Conference presentations
Lewis, Z. (2025) Hopeful encounters in gallery and forest school spaces. 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI). University of Edinburgh, January 2025
Lewis, Z. & Clark, T. (2025) Early childhood graduates in the workplace: Experiences and perceptions. Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network (ECSDN) Conference, Online, January 2025
Lewis, Z. (2025) Ethical encounters beyond the checklist: response-ability and seeing otherwise in the more-than-human research assemblage. British Early Childhood Education Research Association (BECERA) Conference, Birmingham, February 2025
Lewis, Z. (2024) Thinking with posthuman theory to explore children's outdoor creative encounters with ecological sustainability. 32nd European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Conference. University of Brighton, September 2024
Lewis, Z. (2024) Playing in contested spaces. British Educational Research Association Conference (BERA) Conference. University of Manchester, September 2024
Lewis, Z. & Vincent, K. (2024) Capturing the voices of early childhood studies graduate practitioners. Together and Committed to Young Children (TACTYC) Conference. Aston University, November 2024
Lewis, Z. (2024) Creative encounters. Invited keynote at UWE Bristol Education and Childhood Research Group, UWE Bristol, March 2024
Lewis, Z. & Albin-Clark, J. (2024) Creative, affective and multimodal approaches to intra-acting with the more-than-human in an exploration of what makes wet and dirty outdoor micro-encounters hospitable/inhospitable to play and creative exploration in early childhood. 7th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI). University of Helsinki, January 2024
Lewis, Z. (2023) Creative encounters: rethinking creativity in early childhood education through a feminist materialist lens. British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference. University of Liverpool, September 2023.
Lewis, Z. (2023) Developing curiosity through children’s creative encounters. 31st European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Conference. Lisbon, August 2023
Lewis, Z. (2023) ‘Creative Encounters’. Invited speaker at Art’s Connect Moonbeams Early Years Conference, Birmingham, February 2023.