Alison Clark is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, London. Together with Professor Peter Moss, she developed the Mosaic approach (Clark & Moss, 2001; Clark, 2017), a methodology for listening to and engaging with young children’s views and experiences—now widely developed and adapted by researchers and educators. Her book Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child was published by Routledge in 2023 and named Professional Book of the Year in the Nursery World Awards that same year. Alison is currently engaged in research with practitioners about ‘slow practices’ in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Scotland, Norway, Iceland and Japan. Based in Orkney, Scotland, Alison is also a practicing artist.
