Nikki Fairchild is the Associate Head (Research and Innovation) in the School of Education and Sociology at the University of Portsmouth. She has always focussed her research and teaching on critical perspectives of practice and intersectionality in ECEC. Her research interests include posthumanist and feminist materialist ways to enact and extend conceptualisations of professional practice and subjectivities. More recently she has been informed by work on Post-Anthropocentric futures and sustainability, having been inspired by the Common World Collective. Her recent research focuses on the impact of place-space and what this does to children and practitioners in classrooms, settings, gardens and outdoor places. This has been enacted using walking-with methodologies where she is interested in the ways in which place and space impact teachers and practitioners’ understanding of young children.