DrTina Stratigos

Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

  • Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

BIO

Tina Stratigos is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. She is an early childhood teacher with experience in early childhood settings, the early years of primary school, and out of school hours services. She completed her PhD at Charles Sturt University investigating an infants' experience of belonging in early childhood education and care, before joining the University of Sydney in 2017. Her teaching and research interests include early childhood teacher pedagogy and practice, particularly with infants and toddlers, and the role of professional experience in preservice teacher preparation.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Senior Lecturer
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia1 Jan 2025 - present
  • Lecturer
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia1 Jul 2019 - 31 Dec 2024
  • Lecturer - Teaching Focused
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia2 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2019
  • Casual Academic
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia1 Feb 2017 - 30 Jun 2018
  • Post Doctoral Research Fellow ARC Linkage Project: What’s best for my child? Parents’ perspectives of childcare quality and early learning as contributors to childcare choice
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia1 Feb 2017 - 31 Dec 2017

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Project Manager ARC Linkage Project: Babies, ethnographies of belonging in ‘at risk’ communities, and the new compulsory Early Years Learning Framework
    Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2016
  • Research Assistant ARC Discovery Project: Education meets play: A sociological study of how the new compulsory National Learning Framework for children 0-5 years influences educators’ practice
    Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia1 Dec 2014 - 31 Dec 2016
  • Casual Academic
    Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia1 Feb 2012 - 31 Oct 2016
  • Research Assistant
    Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia1 Nov 2008 - 31 Dec 2011

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia1 Dec 2015 - present
  • Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education)
    Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia1 Dec 2002 - present

SCHOOL

  • School of Education and Social Work

AVAILABILITY

  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision

UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 4 Quality Education

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)