Dr Eva Mikuska
Summary
I started my carrier as a geography teacher. At the beginning of the Yugoslav war, I came to live in the UK in 1992. After working in various early years settings, in 2005 I joined the UK FE and HE sector as a lecturer and researcher. Currently, am teaching on various programmes and modules, with the main focus on methodological approaches to research, professional educational practices, and other ECEC related topics. I am also interim Departmental Director for Research Degree (DDPGR).
PhD and EdD supervisor.
Research interests
My research interest focuses on the quality education and care for young children, gender discourses in ECEC field, ethnicised minority rights for education, social inequality, and identity questions.
I am on the editoral borad for the following journals: International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Journal of Early Childhood Society and Norlad Educare Research Journal.
Research outputs
2025
Quality Early Childhood Education and Care practices: the importance of skills, knowledge, and the Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner competencies
Mikuska, E., Fairchild, N., Sabine, A. J. W., Barton, S.
3 Apr 2025, In: International Journal of Early Years Education. 33, 2, p. 411-425, 15p.
Research output: Article
The impact of gender diversity on expression – the language of sexuality – how early childhood studies students understand the semantics of gender dysphoria
Mikuska, E., Kurowski, A.
3 Mar 2025, In: Educational Role of Language Journal. 2, 15p.
Research output: Article
An examination of the correlation and compromises of Ofsted, The National Curriculum, and Physical Education in British Schools
Malhi, T., Hamilton, S., Mikuska, E.
23 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences. 14, 4, p. 1-23, 23p.
Research output: Article
2024
Social innovation in early childhood education and care in England: the case of Portsmouth
Fairchild, N., Mikuska, E.
25 Nov 2024,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Language and gender: Early Childhood Studies students voice
Mikuska, E., Kurowski, A.
2 Nov 2024,
Research output: Abstract
The digital child
Mikuska, E., Kurowski, A.
14 Oct 2024,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)
String figuring young children’s perspectives of quality in English Early Childhood Education and Care
Fairchild, N., Mikuska, E.
19 Feb 2024, In: British Educational Research Journal
Research output: Article
2023
Conversation with my classmates: displacement, war, and survival
Mikuska, E.
10 Oct 2023, In: Genealogy. 7, 4, 11p., 75
Research output: Article
Language, self-esteem, and academic achievement: mature students’ emotionally incited stories
Mikuska, E., Kurowski, A.
27 Sep 2023, In: Educational Role of Language Journal. 1, 9, p. 21-32, 11p.
Research output: Article
Thinking through the lens of dialogical self, I positions and intersectionality for exploring how Hungarian kindergarten pedagogues experienced the new Curriculum Framework
Mikuska, E., Raffai, J., Vukov Raffai, E.
17 Jun 2023, In: Global Studies of Childhood
Research output: Article