Anna is Research Fellow for the Centre for Innovation and Research in Wellbeing (CIRW) and a Doctoral Researcher, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through the South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS) doctoral training partnership. Anna's PhD project uses a mixed-method, multi-sited, multiple perspective approach to explore the everyday experiences of children and adults in the outside spaces of educational and ECEC settings and how they respond to and value nature in these spaces. It also explores how children’s access to the outdoors is mediated by practitioners, in the face of austerity policies and neoliberal ideologies that have simultaneously reduced state intervention in the provision of childcare and education, but increased state surveillance through the regulatory landscape. The project contrasts the experiences of those in the state education and ECEC system with those in the more autonomous environments of the private education sector.