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Dr. Helen Bradford is a passionate lifelong early years educator who has published widely over her career. She has worked in the early years for almost 30 years, where her specialist area of expertise is developing childhood language and literacy 0-8 years. She worked at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge between 2003 to 2015, where she led literacy on the Early Years and Primary PGCE course, alongside Mrs. Penny Coltman, currently, the Early Years Education Mentor at CAMathories, and Dr. David Whitebread, a co-founder and the late Founding Chief Education Officer of CAMathories Company. Dr. Bradford gained her Master's degree entitled 'The Perceptions of Three- and Four-Year-Old Children as Writers' from the University of Cambridge in 2007, receiving a top 'A' grade for her research. Helen moved to UCL (University College London) Insititute of Education in 2015, where she lectured for four years across early childhood Master's courses, working with diverse cohorts of students from across the globe. Her Ph.D. research, entitled 'Co-Constructing Writing Pedagogy with Two-and-Three-Year-Old Children', won the 2019 United Kingdom Literacy Association prize for best thesis.Dr. Bradford is the Early Years Language and Literacy Mentor and an Education Team Member of CAMathories, alongside Dr. Lorna Ayton (Mathematics Advisor) and Mrs. Coltman (Early Years Education Mentor for Mathematics and Science.) Dr. Bradford advises on age-appropriate literacy and language contexts across the early year's learning resources for CAMathories.
