Professor Eve Gregory

Eve's interests are in early childhood bilingualism, family literacy and a sociocultural approach to literacy learning.

Staff details

Professor Eve Gregory

Position

Professor Emerita

Department

Educational Studies

Email

e.gregory (@gold.ac.uk)

Website

https://evegregory.wordpress.com/

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

Edited Book

Book Section

Article

Conference or Workshop Item

  • Invisible teachers : becoming literate in a wider community 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.
  • Journeying across sites : knowledge building and identity positioning in team ethnography 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.
  • Language and literacy in faith settings and their relationship to the school setting 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

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'