Jo Albin-Clark

Dr Jo Albin-Clark is a Senior Lecturer in Early Years Education at Edge Hill University, specializing in posthuman and feminist materialist theories applied to early childhood documentation practices. Her research explores children's rights, play advocacy, and resistance to datafication in early education. She co-leads the Froebel Trust-funded project on children's right to play and participates in the Bag Lady Storytelling Collective, emphasizing creative, multimodal methodologies. Albin-Clark holds an Educational Doctorate from the University of Sheffield (2019) and has extensive experience in early years teaching and leadership roles.

Her work critiques normative educational discourses through projects like Resistance Stories, focusing on documenting marginalized voices and material-discursive interactions. Teaching includes leading the MA Education (Early Years) program and supervising doctoral students. Collaborations span international research networks addressing children's rights, data ethics, and pedagogical innovation.

Key contributions include challenging progress narratives in early childhood education, reimagining play advocacy through digital media, and fostering ethical response-abilities via hauntological and speculative methodologies. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates philosophy, sociology, and creative arts to reimagine early years pedagogy.