Jane Dorrian is a Lecturer in Early Childhood at the Open University, having joined the team in October 2022 after teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She started her career as a nursery teacher in the south Wales valleys and worked as a local authority advisory teacher for early years. Her doctoral thesis looked at the professional identities of early childhood practitioners and the impact of policy on their experiences of supporting children. Her current research interests are young children’s physical literacy and how engagement in children’s physical activity affects the wellbeing of parents and carers.