Keynote Speakers include:

Prof Dr Gunilla Dahlberg is based at University of Stockholm, Sweden. She has led several research projects including 'Early Childhood Education in a Changing World'; 'Children´s Dialogue with Nature'; 'Multiculturalism and Communication', all involving working in close cooperation with teachers and parents in municipal preschools in Reggio Emilia, Italy. She has also contributed to the development of policy in Sweden and internationally through her involvement with the OECD reviews. Her international reputation in the field is substantial. Her most recent publications include 'Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood' with Peter Moss, the first volume of their edited series 'Contesting Early Childhood', and 'Beyond Quality in ECEC' (2007) a seminal work, co-edited with Peter and Alan Pence, now in its second edition.

Dr Tessa Livingstone is the founder and executive producer of the successful BBC series Doctors to Be:
A Child of Our Time, which is following the lives of 25 children from their birth in 2000 until they are 20. She holds a degree in psychology, philosophy and physiology from Oxford University and a PhD in neurophysiology, and wrote the BBC’s policy for the protection of child contributors in the context of the ever-increasing spread of information and comment through the Internet.

Professor Judi Marshall is Programme Director, Department of Management Learning & Leadership Lancaster University, UK. Her work has contributed especially to the fields of self-reflective, action-oriented forms of inquiry and action research. With Peter Reason and others she explored how people take on leadership and seek to act for change. Judi has also explored the educational forms and characteristics which foster people’s engagement with and learning about sustainability, social justice and corporate and individual responsibility.

Dr Amita Gupta is Associate Professor in the School of Education at The City College of New York, a visiting scholar at the Institute of Education, Singapore and a Fulbright Scholar for the year 2009–2010. Her research interests areinterdisciplinary and her most recent book, ‘Early Childhood Education, Postcolonial Theory and Teaching Practices in India’ is conceptualised within a socio-cultural constructivist and postcolonial paradigm, exploring the tension between “Western” theories of child development and the “Indian” ways of being and thinking.