The University of Sheffield
The School of Education

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

Professor of Education
Head of The School of Education
and Head of The Department of Educational Studies

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. She is also a team member of the Early Childhood Programmes and teaches on the MA in New Literacies. 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

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. (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) Gender and curriculum. In B., McGaw, E. Baker, and P.P. Peterson, (eds) International Encyclopedia of Education (3rd edition). Oxford: Pergamon.

Marsh, J. (2008) Popular culture in the language arts classroom. In J. Flood, S.B. Heath and D. Lapp (eds) Handbook of Research in the Visual and Creative Arts, Volume II, New York: Macmillan/ International Reading Association.

Marsh, J. (2007) New Literacies and Old Pedagogies: Recontextualising Rules and Practices. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 11, 3, 267-81.

Marsh. J. (2006) Popular Culture and Literacy: A Bourdieuan Analysis. Reading Research Quarterly. 46, 2, 160-74.

Recent Funded Projects

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

Evaluation of `Everybody Writes´, funded by Booktrust/ DCSF, 2009

Evaluation of the British Film Institute´s `Reframing Literacy´ Project, 2005-2007 The report can be accessed here.

Digital beginnings: Young children's use of popular culture, media and new technologies Funded by BBC Worldwide/Esmee Fairbairn Foundation (with Brooks, Roberts, Ritchie and Hughes), 2004-05.

Research Students

Begum Cubukcuoglu
A study of teachers´ use of ICT in a secondary school in Malta

Jason Loh
Teachers´ beliefs and practices in relation to the teaching of reading

Gerry McTaggart
Access to HE for nursing students in Ireland

Becky Parry
The relationship between identities, life histories and engagement with films in young people´s lives

Diana Samuels
Life-histories of adult literacy learners

Misti Savage
The home literacy practices of young multilingual children

Dylan Yamada-Rice
A comparative study of young children´s visual literacy practices in Japan and the UK