Dr Elizabeth Nelson
- Lecturer in Multimodal Literacies (School of Education)
telephone:
1714
email:
Elizabeth.Nelson@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Elizabeth L. Nelson is Lecturer of Multimodal Literacies at the University of Glasgow. Her research examines play and new technologies in the hands of children drawing on historical and literary representations of children’s play and culture to understand experiences of childhood today. She has published on young people’s relationship to digital technologies, historical accounts of play, and creative methodologies in research encounters with children and young people. Her current work focuses on children’s everyday culture, post-digital childhoods and understanding co-presence through sharing picturebooks online and off and digital play.
Research interests
childhood; play; children's literature; post-digital; digital; historical childhoods; creative methodologies; film; young people; folklore; childcare; new technologies; culture
Grants
Exploring Print Picturebooks In Online Spaces, UKLA Small Grant, January 2021-July 2022. Co-Investigator with Amanda Ptolomey. PI Dr Soumi Dey.
The Play Play, ESRC IAA £13,603 and Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Enabling Fund (GKEF) £15,000, PI Elizabeth Nelson, Co-I Mia Perry, Mentor Zoë Strachan.
Supervision
I welcome enquiries to supervise research students with interests in childhood and play, children's digital encounters, post-digital childhoods and childlore.
- Han, Xuan
Researching Educational Branding for Museums. - Van Dinter, Emma
Summative Multimodal Assessments: Developing Practitioners' Understanding and Access to Multimodal Assessments for Utilisation in the BGE English Classroom - ZHANG, Rong
Multilingual learners' Literary Encounter with Audio books
Teaching
Elizabeth is course lead and lecturer on courses across the MEd in Children's Literature and Literacies and the MSc Education for Sustainable Futures Master's program and on the Erasmus Mundas program, Children's Literature Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship. She supervises dissertations at postgraduate levels (Masters and Doctoral levels).
Additional information
Elizabeth is Early Career Rep for the Children's History Society and also a member of United Kingdom Literacies Association (UKLA) and the International Research Society of Children's Literature (IRSCL)