The University of Sheffield
The School of Education

Professor Jackie Marsh, BA (Hons), PGCE, MEd, PhD, FRSA

Professor of Education

Photograph of Jackie Marsh



Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 8166
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 8105
Email: j.a.marsh@Sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 6.12

Research interests

Early literacy and popular culture, media and new technologies

Jackie is interested in the role and nature of popular culture, media and new technologies in young children´s early literacy development, both in and outside school. She has conducted research projects that have explored children´s access to new technologies and their emergent digital literacy skills, knowledge and understanding. She has also examined the way in which parents/carers and other family members support this engagement with media and technologies.

Digital literacy and critical pedagogy

Jackie has conducted a number of research projects that have explored how creative and innovative teachers have responded to the challenges of the new media age. She has evaluated a number of national projects that have aimed to develop teachers' expertise in the teaching and learning of digital and media literacy.

Teaching

Jackie´s main teaching is research supervision. Jackie enjoys teaching contexts in which students have opportunities to reflect on educational theory, policy and practice in ways which enable them to draw on their own experiences, informed by high-quality research. 

Activities

Indicative publications

Books

Larson, J. and Marsh, J. (in press) Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy (2nd ed). London: Sage.

Merchant, G., Gillen, J., Marsh. J. and Davies. J. (Eds) (in press) Virtual Literacies: Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People. New York: Routledge.

Willett R, Richards C, Marsh J, Burn A and Bishop, J. (in press) Children, media and playground cultures: Ethnographic studies of school playtimes. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Willett, R., Robinson, M. and Marsh, J. (eds) (2009) Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures. New York, London: Routledge.

Marsh, J. and Hallet, E. (Eds) (2008) Desirable Literacies: Approaches to Language and Literacy in the Early Years. (2nd edition) London: Sage.

Bearne, E. and Marsh, J. (Eds) (2007) Literacy and social inclusion: Closing the gap. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.

Chapters and articles

Marsh, J. (in press) Purposes for literacy in children’s use of the online virtual world ‘Club Penguin’. Journal of Research in Reading, Article first published online: 11.6.12.

Marsh, J. (in press) We’re playing ‘Jeremy Kyle’!”: Television talk shows in the playground. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Marsh, J. (in press) Children as knowledge brokers of playground games and rhymes in the new media age. Childhood. Published online before print April 5, 2012.

Marsh, J. (2011) Young children's literacy practices in a virtual world: Establishing an online interaction order. Reading Research Quarterly, 46 (2) 101-118.

Marsh, J. (2010) Young Children´s Play in Online Virtual Worlds. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 7 (3) pp1-17

Marsh, J. (2010) New literacies, old identities: Young girls´ experiences of digital literacy at home and school. In C. Jackson, C. Paechter and E. Reynolds (Eds) Girls and Education 3-16: Continuing concerns, new agendas. Buckingham: Open University Press

Marsh, J. (2010) The relationship between home and school literacy practices. In D. Wyse, R. Andrews and J. Hoffman (Eds.) The International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching. London: Routledge.

Marsh, J. (2010) Childhood, culture and creativity: a literature review. Creativity, Culture and education series: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Available online: http://www.creativitycultureeducation.org/childhood-culture-and-creativity-a-literature-review

Recent Funded Projects

Childhoods and Play: An Archive. Funded by the British Academy, 2012-2017

Digital Futures in Teacher Education, Funded by JISC (with SHU), 2011 - 2012

A study of the relationship between media, commercial markets and children's play in the UK between 1950 and 2011. Funded by the British Academy, 2011 - 2012

Children's playground games and rhymes in a new media age. Funded by AHRC Beyond Texts Programme (with Burn, Mitchell Robinson and Willett), 2009-2011

Research Students

Jeannie Bulman: Progression in children’s analysis of films

Pornwan Maglin: The use of a multiple intelligences approach in an early childhood setting in Thailand

Ken Newlan: A case study of art education in a Further Education College

Doirrean O’Connor: The teaching and learning of creativity in the Irish educational system: A Life-historical approach