PUBLICATIONS
Richardson, T. and Stepniak, A. (2025) Proactive Academic Tutoring? Uniting the pastoral and the professional: a critical approach to the PAT role in the contemporary HEI landscape. Educational Journal of Educational Research Open. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2025.100493
Richardson, T., Lavercombe, S. and Brogaard-Clausen, S. (2024). Building Professional Relationships and Student Confidence through Early Childhood Graduate
Practitioner Competencies. Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 15(1), 379–392.
Caldwell, H., Whewell, E., & Richardson, T. (2024). A trio-autoethnographic analysis of the experiences and wellbeing of part-time doctoral students with full-time academic roles. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, pp.1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2024.2385005
Richardson, T. (2024) Communication and language. In: Palaiologou, J. (ed) The Early Years Foundation Stage theory and practice. 5th ed. London: Sage Publications.
Richardson, T. (2023) What constitutes a high-quality environment for speech and language development? International Journal of Early Years Education. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2023.2284185
Richardson, T. (2022) Promoting holistic child development. In: Silberfeld, C. (ed) The Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies. London: Sage Publications.
Richardson, T. (2022) Body-worn cameras as a research tool in early years settings: strengths and weaknesses. Journal of Early Childhood Research. 21(1), pp. 106-118. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1476718X221136472
Richardson, T., & Holman, K. (2021). Perceptions of placement experiences of Early Childhood Studies students: the fluency of knowledge and skills. Journal of Further and Higher Education. 45(3), pp.324-336.
Teszenyi, E., Devecchi, C., Richardson, T. (2020) Enhancing learning for Early Years Foundation Degree Students: Empowerment through heutagogy and reflecting on the notion of knowledgeable others. Polish Journal of Educational Studies. 72(1), pp.24-44
Richardson, T. (2019) ‘Why haven’t I got one of those?’ A consideration regarding the need to protect non-participant children in early years research, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 27(1), pp. 5-14, DOI: 10.1080/1350293X.2018.1556530
Richardson, T. (2019) Children as communicators. In: Fitzgerald, D. and Maconochie, H. (eds.) Early Childhood Studies: A student’s guide. London: Sage Publications.
Richardson, T. and Murray, J. (2016) Are young children’s utterances affected by characteristics of their learning environments? A multiple case study. Early child development and care. 187(3-4), pp.457-468
Richardson, T. (2014) Speech and language development in a forest school environment: An action research project. Sage Research Methods [online]. Available from: http://srmo.sagepub.com/view/methods-case-studies-2014/n342.xml?rskey=nb4W3C&row=1
PRESENTATIONS
Presented at BECERA 2013 “Does a natural environment have an impact on children’s speech and language development?” – won an award for best presentation.
Poster presentation at SoE PHD conference – June 2015
Paper presented at OMEP world conference in May 2016 on the impact of environments on language development.
Paper presented at EECERA 2016 on the quality of environments and correlation with language development.
Paper presented at BECERA 2017 “Why haven’t I got one of those?” on the ethical considerations of PhD research.
Paper presented at EECERA 2017 on “A universal and transferable quality rating scale – is it possible?”
Paper presented at ECSDN 2018 on “A universal and transferable quality rating scale – is it possible?”
Keynote speech given at TACTYC conference 2019 on findings from doctoral study; “Confident communicators: The impact of the environment on children’s language”
Presentation given to EY Summit June 2020 on quality of environments and the impact on speech and language development. Viewed by 33,000 Early Years professionals.
Paper given at ECSDN 2021 – Richardson, T., Wall S., & Brogaard-Clausen, S. (2021) Exploring practitioner, academics and student perspectives of Early Childhood Studies Degrees Graduate Practitioner Competencies (Pilot) in building Professional Identities and Relationships? ECSDN funded research update presentation Research Conference Apr 2021 – The Early Childhoood Studies Degrees Network (ecsdn.org)
Keynote speech given at Nottingham Trent University Early Years conference on findings from doctoral study; “Confident communicators: The impact of the environment on children’s language”
Paper presented at EECERA 2024, alongside Prof. Jane Murray, on “Relationships between the quality of young children’s speech and language and home learning environments”