Wendy Boyd PhD (QUT), MEd(SCU), DipEd(ECE)(SKTC), BSc(UNSW). Dr Wendy Boyd joined Southern Cross University in February 2009 as a Lecturer in the School of Education. Her professional expertise lies in the field of early childhood education and care which has taken her into research in this field. She completed her PhD in 2011, the title of which was Parent decisions regarding paid work and care of the child. Wendy has published and presented from her PhD, and collaborated to publish research involving pre-service teachers' attitudes to child care, early childhood education for sustainability, and advocacy of pre-service teachers in the field of early childhood. Her approach to teaching of pre-service early childhood teachers has been recognised through the award of a 2011 Vice Chancellor's Citation Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 25 years of early childhood professional experience, Wendy led a large staff team to consistently achieve the highest ratings in the early childhood Quality Improvement and Accreditation System. Wendy is highly regarded in the early childhood field and is the President of ECA (NSW) North Coast Branch, actively advocating for universal access to high quality early childhood education and care for children and their families.
Journal articles
Choosing work and care: Australian women negotiating return to paid work in the first year of motherhoodChoosing work and care: Australian women negotiating return to paid work in the first year of motherhood (with Karen Thorpe and Susan Walker), Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (2013)
Australian women make decisions about return to paid work and care for their child within...
"Friday is my research day": chance, time and desire in the search for the teaching-research nexus in the life of a university teacher (with William E. Boyd, Meg O'Reilly, Karyn Rendall, Stephen Rowe, Erica Wilson, Kay Dimmock, Elaine Nuske, Johan Richard Edelheim, Daniel J. Bucher, and Kath Fisher), Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (2012)
This paper builds on some ideas recently presented by Boyd et al. (2010). In that...
Maternal employment and childcare in Australia: achievements and barriers to satisfying employment, Australian Bulletin of Labour (2012)
The Australian Government has begun effecting significant changes that focus on the provision of high-quality,...
Attracting and retaining trained ECEC staff, Every Child (2011)
The Federal Government needs to ensure that the significant investment in training the early childhood...
Parent decisions regarding paid work and care of the child, PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld., (2011) (2011)
Australia has witnessed a continual increase in maternal employment over the past two decades, which...
Theses
Book chapters
Comparing early childhood education and care across Australia (with Joanne Ailwood), School of Education Papers (2007)
Conference publications
Choosing work and choosing care: Australian women negotiating their return to paid work in the first year of motherhood., Early Childhood Australia National Conference (2012)
To work or not to work: Changes in the intentions to return to work amongst first-time mothers (with Prue Millear and Karen Thorpe), European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (2012)
Children's agency and participation in a water awareness program in early childhood centres in Australia, Explore, experience, educate: the 6th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) (2011)
This paper reports on an evaluation of this program, which was a qualitative study that...
Policies to support maternal employment and care for the child: what does the research tell us?, Social policy in a complex world: Australian Social Policy Conference (2011)
Continual increase in maternal employment in Australia over the past three decades has focused attention...
Maternal employment and satisfaction with care (with Karen Thorpe), Sustaining families in challenging times: the 11th Australian Institute of Family Studies conference (2010)
A continual increase in maternal employment in Australia over the past three decades has focused...
Reports