Te Puna Reo Pohewa | The Marie Clay Research Centre

The research centre's key purpose is to promote leadership, equity, achievement and diversity in early years literacy.

The four main objectives of the Marie Clay Research Centre are to promote research and study or practice with young children in the following areas:

• Early language/s and literacy learning
• Learning equity through valuing culturally and linguistically diverse whānau/families
• Teaching innovation
• Teacher leadership in literacy

The centre is involved in developing projects that are aligned with those four main objectives. Projects can originate from any source – an individual idea, a call for proposals, a school or a community of schools.

The Marie Clay Research Centre will engage in broad partnerships with whānau/fono/families, iwi/community leaders, educators and researchers to create unprecedented opportunities for children’s oral language/s and literacy learning to ensure that learning-teaching interactions promote the success of all learners, with priority for Māori and Pacific children.

For information about our researchers and our work, please visit our centre website here.

Professor Janet Gaffney
Director
Email: janet.gaffney@auckland.ac.nz
Phone: +64 (0)9 373 7599 ext 48323