Professor Eve Gregory

Eve Gregory is Professor of Language and Culture in Education and Head of the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. This Centre hosts a variety of research projects in the field of bilingualism, culture and learning in multilingual London as well as currently housing postdocs from Turkey, Spain, Pakistan and South America. She has directed or co-directed five ESRC funded projects, as well as a Leverhulme and a Paul Hamlyn funded project and gained EU funding for research into minority ethnic children in Luxembourg.

Teaching

Eve teaches mainly on MA and PhD courses in the area of language, literacy, culture and learning and has successfully supervised numerous international PhD students to completion.

Professional projects

Eve was awarded a Leverhulme research fellowship arising from her investigations into children's out-of-school reading and the transfer of cognitive strategies between home and school in 1997. She has co-directed an ESRC funded project with C.Kenner and J.Jessel on grandparents and children's learning, as well as a project on Developing Bilingual Learning Strategies in Mainstream and Community Contexts with C. Kenner. Most recently, she has worked for the ESRC as a director for the major award 'Becoming literate in faith settings; Language and Literature learning in the lives of new Londoners' (2009-2012).

Eve is also a committee member of the Canadian Social Science Research Council. 

She is currently holding a Leverhulme Emerita Research Fellowship to direct 'Disappearing Londoners: Monolingual voices in a multilingual city' (2017-2019).

Publications and research outputs

Book

Gregory, Eve E.. 2008. Learning to Read in a New Language: Making Sense of Words and Worlds. London and New York: Sage. ISBN 9781412928571

Gregory, Eve E.; Conteh, Jean; Kearney, Chris and Mor, Aura. 2005. On Writing Educational Etnographies: The Art of Collusion. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1858563411

Gregory, Eve E. and Williams, Ann. 2000. City Literacies: Learning to Read Across Generations and Cultures. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415191166

Edited Book

Lytra, Vally; Volk, Dinah and Gregory, Eve E., eds. 2016. Religion in Young Lives: Navigating Language, Literacies and Identities. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1138824249

Gregory, Eve E.; Long, Susi and Volk, Dinah, eds. 2004. Many Pathways to Literacy: Young Children Learning with Siblings: Grandparents, Peers and Communities. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415306171

Book Section

Lytra, Vally; Gregory, Eve E. and Ilankuberan, Arani. 2017. Researching children's literacy practices and identities in faith settings: Multimodal text-making and talk about text as resources for knowledge building. In: Marilyn Martin-Jones and Deirdre Martin, eds. Researching Multilingualism: Critical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 215-228. ISBN 9780415748421

Lytra, Vally; Gregory, E. and Ilankuberan, A.. 2016. “Children's representations of the Temple in text and talk in a Tamil Hindu/Saiva faith community in London”. In: V. Lytra; D. Volk and E. Gregory, eds. Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities: Religion in Young Lives. New York: Routledge, pp. 141-158. ISBN 9781138824249

Lytra, Vally; Volk, Dinah and Gregory, E.. 2016. "Introduction". In: V. Lytra; Dinah Volk and E. Gregory, eds. Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities: Religion in Young Lives. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781138824249

Article

Lytra, Vally; Gregory, Eve E. and Ilankuberan, Arani. 2017. “Faith matters: Rethinking home learning of children from different faiths”. EAL Journal, Summer, pp. 30-31. ISSN 2398-8533

Lytra, Vally; Gregory, Eve E. and Ilankuberan, Arani. 2016. Bridging faith, languages and learning in London: A faith teacher reflects upon pedagogy in religious instruction classes. Language and Education, 30(6), pp. 554-569. ISSN 0950-0782

Gregory, Eve E.; Lytra, Vally and Ilankuberan, Arani. 2015. “Divine games and rituals: How Tamil Saiva/Hindu siblings learn faith practices through play”. International Journal of Play, 4(1), pp. 69-83. ISSN 2159-4937

Conference or Workshop Item

Gregory, Eve E.. 2011. 'Invisible teachers : becoming literate in a wider community'. In: Annual conference of the Literacy Research Association : widening the circle for literacy research and practice: expanding access, knowledge, and participation. Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

Vally, Lytra; Gregory, Eve E.; Jessel, John; Kenner, Charmian; Ruby, Mahera; Ilankuberan, Arani; Choudhury, Halimun; Kwapong, Amoafi; Woodham, Malgozarta and Souza, Ana. 2010. 'Journeying across sites : knowledge building and identity positioning in team ethnography'. In: Explorations in ethnography, language and communication. Aston University, United Kingdom.

Jessel, John; Woodham, Malgorzata and Gregory, Eve E.. 2010. 'Language and literacy in faith settings and their relationship to the school setting'. In: Bilingualism and multilingualism in school settings : teaching, learning and testing, 11th Biennial University of Seville Conference. Seville, Spain.

Report

Kenner, Charmian; Gregory, Eve E.; Ruby, Mahera and Al-Azami, Salman. 2007. Developing bilingual learning strategies in mainstream and community contexts. Project Report. ESRC, Swindon.

Kenner, Charmian; Gregory, Eve E.; Jessel, John; Ruby, Mahera and Arju, Tahera. 2004. Intergenerational learning between children and grandparents in East London. Project Report. ESRC, Swindon.

Research Interests

Eve's research interests lie in the field of early childhood bilingualism, family literacy and a sociocultural approach to literacy learning. She has directed projects supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) investigating children's out-of -school reading and the transfer of cognitive strategies between home and school. In 1997, she was awarded a Leverhulme research fellowship arising from this work. She has recently co-directed an ESRC funded project with C.Kenner and J.Jessel on grandparents and children's learning as well as a project on Developing Bilingual Learning Strategies in Mainstream and Community Contexts with C. Kenner, also funded by the ESRC.

Between September 2009 and August 2012 Eve will be Director of a major ESRC award 'Becoming literate in faith settings; Language and Literature learning in the lives of new Londoners'