Rachel Strisino

Assistant Professor, Early Years Programmes

Room WCE1.7, Centre for Lifelong Learning, Westwood Campus

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Rachel Strisino is an Assistant Professor on the BA (Hons) Early Childhood and BA(Hons) Child and Family: Health and Wellbeing/Mental Health degree’s at the Centre for Lifelong learning and an External Examiner at a University based in the North of England. Rachel’s current professional projects aim to raise the profile of sustainability across the degree provision to create sustainable lifelong learning and impact in practice.

Rachel is an active member of national and international Networks and Special Interest Groups:

• ECSDN (Sustainability strategy group)
• EECERA (Children from refugee or migrant backgrounds special interest group)

Rachel’s early career was in Nurseries in the late 1990s which inspired her to embark on her BA (Hons) in Early Childhood Studies here at Warwick. Upon graduation, Rachel started to lecture at a local Further Education College where she worked with members of the local community at the Women’s Multi-refuge centre and Sure Start, supporting women back into education and has taught on a range of Early Childhood, Children and Family Services and Hospital Play Specialism degree provision since 2008.

Rachel has continued her own educational and professional journey with the University of Warwick by completing her teacher training, becoming a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and gaining a Masters in Childhood in Society. Whilst working on her MA, Rachel investigated the perceptions and interpretations of early years’ practitioners when working with the Early Years Foundation Stage framework and the concept of ‘what is a child in the 21st Century’.

Her current PhD research explores the how parents and professionals build relationships to meet the needs of refugee and asylum seeking children, under the age of 5.

Rachel’s engagement with industry is as a volunteer with a local charity, Carriers of Hope, contributing the children’s project.