Janet Morris PGDip, BSc Hons, PGCE, MEd

Senior Lecturer for Early Years

Janet Morris is a Senior Lecturer for Early Years in the School of Education at the University of Greenwich.

In 2015 Janet gained her Master's degree in Education and is currently studying for a Doctorate in Education (Early Childhood) at the University of Sheffield.

Janet originally studied Physiology at the University of Leeds and then took a post graduate qualification in Human Nutrition and Dietetics, qualifying as a state registered dietitian and working in the NHS in a range of community and acute settings, including managing the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Lewisham Hospital.

In 2000, she retrained as a primary teacher, specialising in Early Years, commencing as a nursery and reception teacher spanning 11 years, the last three years as an early years leader of an Early Years Foundation Stage Unit, co-leading a middle leadership development programme for a cluster of local schools. Janet is also a trained Forest School leader, maintaining her professional practice with applied teaching in a partnership school.

Janet began lecturing at the University of Greenwich in 2012, with responsibility for both the undergraduate and postgraduate primary education programmes. She leads Year 2 undergraduate students on school experience, personal and professional tutoring, academic development and pastoral care. Janet contributes to lecturing undergraduates on science in primary education and leads on a course she developed on Engaging Primary Learners for the newly established Accelerated Degree.

Her main areas of lecturing include: teaching and learning in the EYFS both indoors and out; developing as a specialist teacher in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS); Science in the primary curriculum; Expressive curriculum; Understanding the world; and Education and Professional Studies, with a focus on behaviour management.


Posts held previously:

  • 2009-12, Early Years Leader/Nursery teacher, John Ball School, Blackheath
  • 2001-09, Nursery and Reception teacher, John Ball School, Blackheath
  • 1996-2000, Clinical Dietetic Services Manager, Lewisham Hospital
  • 1988-96, Senior Dietitian specialising in diabetes, (Paediatrics) Community Development, Greenwich District Hospital
  • 1986-88, Basic grade Dietitian, Whittington Hospital