Chantelle Haughton

Overview

Chantelle Haughton is (​DARPL) Director-Founder of the National Programme DARPL Wales, Diversity and Anti-Racist Professional Learning for schools funded by Welsh Government co-designed and delivered with a coalition of partners led by Chantelle. a Principal Lecturer in Primary Education and Early Years, a National Teaching Fellow, a Senior HEA Fellow. Chantelle Chairs the Welsh Government Childcare, Play and Early Years Governance Group focused on ARWAP. Chantelle is a Forest School Leader and Trainer. Chantelle imagined and created the Outdoor Learning Centre (OLC) on our Cyncoed Campus working with students, colleagues and charitable trusts to run projects which helped fund and build the cabin, suite of log circles and other features. Chantelle works through regeneration and a place responsive pedagogy, actively nurturing a sense of communitas, Cynefin and true civic mission within our university campus which branches city wide into use of other spaces. Chantelle loves to work within our small strip of Welsh woodland and concrete patches situated on Campus as well throughout the city of Cardiff with undergraduates, postgraduates, local children, families, teachers and practitioners, reviving spaces into stimulating arenas for learning and teaching. Chantelle was awarded National Teaching Fellowship (2021), Student Led Teaching Fellowship Award (2013), Vice Chancellors Staff Award for Excellence (2011), and HEA CATE finalist (2017) each of these celebrations relates to the live, playful and sustained community engagement projects involving students, children and practitioners as partners which extend the reach beyond the lecture theatres into live inclusive multidisciplinary collaborations. Community is core to Chantelle's work with our students and partners. Chantelle Chaired Black History Wales 365 (2020-2022), is Vice Chair for BAME Ed Network Wales, Deputy Chair for the Early Years Network Wales in Social Care Wales, Co-Chair Black Leadership group, Wales, previous Deputy Chair for the Advance HE Race Equality Working Group at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Chair for Welsh Government Steering Group for Anti-Racist Action Planning for Early Years, Childcare and Play. External Examiner in two UK HEIs in and an External Moderator internationally.​

Community and outreach is core to Chantelle's work with our students and partners ensuring diversity. Chantelle is Project Director for the National Programme DARPL Wales, Diversity and Anti-Racist Professional Learning for schools funded by Welsh Government co-designed and delivered with a coalition of partners led by Chantelle. Chantelle was part of The Ministerial Working Group with Prof Charlotte Williams responsible for the Welsh Government report published in March 2021 on 'Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Report'. Chantelle was Principal Investigator with Dr Susan Davis co-leading a research team in a Welsh Government funded research project to explore the lack of diversity in the recruitment and retention in teaching and career progression experiences for teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds in the Education Workforce in Wales (2021) this work resulted in the production of the Welsh Government National Action Plan for ITE recruitment and retention of Minority Ethnic Teachers. Chantelle was Principal Investigator leading a diverse research team in a regional funded piece of research looking into learner, teacher and family experiences of racism in school and reporting/ non-reporting. Chantelle's own diverse heritage and family mix, with lived and professional experience contribute to her sincere, robust knowledge and care for the current and developing national policy and practice.

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