Michelle Malomo

Senior Lecturer & Early Years Partnership-Co-ordinator

Children and Families

Contact Details

email: m.malomo@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 542075

Michelle Malomo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department for Children & Families within the School of Education. Michelle currently lecturers on The Foundation Degree in Early Years ( 0-8) ( Professional Practice ) and the top up degree in Integrated Working with Children and Families Michelle is the Partnership Co-ordinator in Foundation Degree in Early Years( 0-8) ( Professional Practice ), working in partnership to support the delivery Higher Education within local colleges.

Prior to joining the University, Michelle taught at a Further Education College where she was a Course Leader for the Early Years Foundation degree. Alongside this role she was a learning mentor for new and developing teachers. Michelle also taught at the University of Gloucester for 13 years specialising in Playwork.

Michelle is a qualified Early Years and Playwork Practitioner with experience in both the private and voluntary sector. Her experience includes management within the Early Years sector and Youth and children’s development work within the voluntary sector. Michelle has worked in a range of settings and has been responsible for the development of social action projects with children, young people, and families.

Qualifications

NAMCW- Early Years Part 1 and 2.
Higher Education Certificate in Early Years Education
Advanced Diploma in Education – Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties
FATCE- Teaching Certificate for Adults
MA Play and Playwork
Senior Fellow HEA
PGCE in Higher Education

Teaching & Research

Michelle is passionate about Play and is particularly interested in the role of Play in outdoor spaces for both practitioner and children and young people. This is reflected within the modules that she teaches FDEY 1003 – Playful Pedagogy.

Michelle is interested in developing the professional identity of practitioners within the Children and Families sector.

Michelle is currently researching how do we support students to access and develop strategies to read within Higher Education. This research is underpinned by the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) philosophy.

Publications

Michelle’s masters research was entitled – If you go down to the woods today - the value of experiential learning in the outdoors for Early Years Practitioners. This work explored the value and effect of experiences in the Outdoors for Early Years practitioners.

Malomo, Michelle and Pittaway, Sarah (2021) Insights: The UKSG Journal, 34 (1). p. 19. ISSN 2048-7754

Malomo, Michelle and Pittaway, Sarah (2019) JISC Accessible Organisations: Supporting learning providers in creating inclusive teaching and learning experiences.

Malomo, Michelle and Sutton-Tsang, Samantha (2017) In: Studying for Your Early Years Degree Skills and Knowledge for Becoming an Effective Early Years Practitioner. Critical Publishing, St Albans, pp. 197-208. ISBN 9781911106425

Pittaway, Sarah and Malomo, Michelle (2021) In: Inclusion by design seminar, 15/01/2021, Online (蜜桃直播). (Unpublished)

Malomo, Michelle and Pittaway, Sarah (2020) In: UDL conference, 7-8 October 2020, Online (hosted by Kristianstad University). (Unpublished)

Pittaway, Sarah and Malomo, Michelle (2020) In: UKSG webinar (in lieu of UKSG conference), 17 June 2020, Online. (Unpublished)

Malomo, Michelle and Pittaway, Sarah (2020) In: Talis Insight Webinars 2020 (Europe), 29/04/20, Online. (Unpublished)

Pittaway, Sarah and Malomo, Michelle (2019) In: UKSG 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition, 8th - 10th April 2019, Telford. (Unpublished)

Sutton-Tsang, Samantha and Malomo, Michelle (2016) In: TACTYC conference: Principled Early Years Practice: Valuing our past, debating our present, inspiring our future, 19 Nov 2016, Park Crescent Conference Centre, International Students House London. (Unpublished)

External Roles

Michelle is a Link Tutor for partnership colleges that the Department for Children & Families works with for delivery of their Foundation Degree in Early Years.

Michelle also is a member of the Sector Endorsed Foundation Degree in Early years national and regional committees.