Natalia Kucirkova
Natalia Kucirkova is researching early literacy, personalisation and new technologies at the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology, Open University. Her Phd project examines innovative ways of promoting early parent-child shared book reading and the impact of self-made books on children’s word acquisition.
She has been involved in the creation, launch and evaluation of a smartphone/tablet children’s application designed for creating personalised digital books (Our Story) and recently wrote an iPad children’s story book. She is a school governor of a local primary school and sits on the Committee for a nursery in Milton Keynes. She subscribes to the view that there are many pathways into literacy and is concerned with supporting children’s literacy experiences in an increasingly digitalised world.
