Dr Hannah Hogarth
Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Northampton
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2993-1020
Hannah Hogarth | Staff Profile | University of Northampton
Dr Hannah Hogarth is a Senior Lecturer in Education in the Faculty of Education, Arts, Science and Technology at the University of Northampton, UK. Hannah has worked in the field of education for over 20 years and is interested in relational, creative and playful approaches in research and practice. She began her career as a secondary school History teacher as part of the Teach First programme, a social justice charity, and has worked in schools across England and Switzerland. She recently obtained her Doctorate in Education at the University of Bath (2024) co-researching and co-authoring with young children to explore play and nature relations in an urban forest school. She works with The Garden Classroom, a London based outdoor learning charity whose Urban Forest School programme facilitates playful, relational, trauma-informed sessions for children from disadvantaged schools.
Hannah’s research explores education in multiple forms across phases from early years to higher education with a focus on education as/for ecosocial justice. Hannah’s research is theoretically driven by critical feminist new materialist and posthumanist philosophies and she engages with creative, playful post-qualitative methods including play and arts based methods (such as collaging, collaborative writing and storying). She has published widely in the field of early childhood education, environmental education and higher education pedagogies (see https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2993-1020). Her work with co-author Charlotte Hankin received recognition from the Australian Journal of Environmental Education with the Author Excellence Award 2025.
Hannah is currently co-editing Postdevelopmental approaches in environmental early childhood education (with Professor Jayne Osgood and Claire Walsh, Routledge) and Researching Childhoodnature (with Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, Springer).