Dr Shabana Roscoe

Shabana is a Research Associate in the School of Education, where she is contributing to the LEGO Foundation funded Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) - a project co-founded by UNICEF Innocenti and the LEGO Group. Specifically, she is contributing to the Sheffield, UK arm of Phase Two’s ecoculturally-informed case study research, which is taking place in four countries and aiming to investigate the relationship between children’s digital play and their subjective well-being. Prior to joining the School of Education, Shabana carried out the ethnographic, qualitative arm of a service evaluation whilst at Manchester Metropolitan University, looking at how a group treatment (Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress) could enhance and be enhanced by the trauma-informed provider Quality Protects Children. For her PhD, at UCL, she carried out a year-long ethnographic exploration in an English reception class, looking at 4 to 5-year-olds' agential navigations of adult-formulated rules in the context of their self-initiated play. The data was constructed through ‘traditional’ and ‘innovative’ qualitative techniques. During her time at UCL, she ran events for the Institute of Education’s Students’ Union and voluntarily co-facilitated MA Dissertation workshops. In 2018 she contributed to the UK-strand of the international Science Learning+ project.