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Chamberlain, Liz (2024). Vignette: The role of home language in supporting adolescent girls’ learning in rural Zimbabwe. In: Reilly, Colin; Chimbutane, Feliciano; Clegg, John; Rubagumya, Casmir and Erling, Elizabeth J. eds. Multilingual Learning: Assessment, Ideologies and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Routledge Series in Language and Content Integrated Teaching & Plurilingual Education, 2. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, pp. 92–98.

Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Chamberlain, Liz and Hulston, Samantha (2023). Approaches to Reading and Writing for Pleasure: An Executive Summary of the Research. The Mercers' Company, London.

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Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen and Chamberlain, Liz (2023). Reading and Writing for Pleasure: A Framework for Practice. The Mercers' Company, London.

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Chamberlain, Liz; Flynn, Naomi; Hafeez, Imran; Twitchen, Alex and Sells, Jim (2023). Supporting literacy skills and community cohesion for transnational young people. EAL Journal(21) pp. 32–34.

Chamberlain, Liz and Drane, Rob (2023). A whole school approach to the teaching of writing: Lessons learned from collaborative lesson research. In: Writing Matters, UKLA International Conference, 23-25 Jun 2023, Exeter, UK.

Cremin, Teresa; Chamberlain, Liz; Rowe, Deborah and Gardner, Paul (2023). Exploring aspects of being and becoming writers: A symposium exploring notions of being a writer, from a sociocultural perspective. In: Writing Matters. UKLA International Conference, 23-25 Jun 2023, Exeter, UK.

Chamberlain, Liz; Buckler, Alison; Worwood, Kelly; Chigodora, Obert; Chishava, Charlotte and Hedges, Claire (2023). Overcoming adversity for marginalised adolescent girls in Zimbabwe. In: Holliman, Andrew and Sheehy, Kieron eds. Overcoming Adversity in Education. London: Taylor and Francis, pp. 223–233.

Stutchbury, Kris; Ebubedike, Margaret; Chamberlain, Liz and Amos, Sandra (2023). Professional development in the digital age: supporting improvements in teacher education through MOOCs. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-learning (Early access).

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Chamberlain, Liz; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Woodward, Clare (2022). Disrupting language of instruction policy at a classroom level: oracy examples from South Africa and Zambia. Literacy, 56(3) pp. 264–274.

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Chamberlain, Liz and Dean, Caroline (2022). Breaking the textbook gender bias: Inspiring girls and young women through providing role models they can identify with. The Education and Development Forum - UKFIET, London, UK.

Buckler, Alison; Chamberlain, Liz; Mkwananzi, Faith; Chigodora, Obert and Dean, Caroline (2022). Out-of-school girls’ lives in Zimbabwe: what can we learn from a storytelling research approach? Cambridge Journal of Education, 52(2) pp. 195–215.

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Chamberlain, Liz; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Woodward, Clare (2022). Disrupting language of instruction policy at a classroom level: oracy examples from South Africa and Zambia. In: The 57th UKLA International Conference - Reaching out through literacy: Enabling advantage for all, 1-3 Jul 2022, Birmingham, UK.

Chamberlain, Liz and Drane, Rob (2021). How schools are getting writing wrong. In Times Educational Supplement Times Educational Supplement.

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Chamberlain, Liz; Karlsen, May Lene; Sinitsky, Gail; Bennett, Stephanie; Plowright-Pepper, Linda and Vackova, Petra (2021). Coronavirus and my life: What children say. Children's Research Centre, Milton Keynes.

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Sheehy, Kieron; Kasule, George Wilson and Chamberlain, Liz (2021). Ugandan Teachers Epistemological Beliefs and Child-Led Research: Implications for Developing Inclusive Educational Practice. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education., 68(4) pp. 600–615.

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Ebubedike, Margaret and Chamberlain, Liz (2021). Rapid Research Response: collective sensemaking around experiences and challenges of harnessing education research opportunities during a global pandemic. Research Conversations, Open University Education Blog.

Chamberlain, Liz; Buckler, Alison and Mkwananzi, Faith (2021). Building a case for inclusive ways of knowing through a case study of a cross-cultural research project of out-of-school girls in Zimbabwe: practitioners’ perspectives. In: Fox, Alison; Busher, Hugh and Capewell, Carmel eds. Thinking critically and ethically about research for education. London: Routledge, pp. 27–39.

Chamberlain, Liz; Lacina, Jan; Bintz, William P.; Jimerson, JoBeth; Payne, Kim and Zingale, Remy (2020). Literacy in lockdown: learning and teaching in COVID-19 school closures. The Reading Teacher, 74(3) pp. 243–253.

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Chamberlain, Liz (2020). Opportunities missed: Then the rains came down and washed the writing away. British Educational Research Association.

Chamberlain, Liz (2020). Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher. OpenLearn, Milton Keynes, UK.

Stutchbury, Kris; Chamberlain, Liz and Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy (2020). Supporting the teaching of early reading: An evaluation of the TESSA: Teaching Early Reading with African Storybook Badged Online Course (BOC). The Open University, Milton Keynes.

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Chamberlain, Liz (2020). Findings from research: Capturing children and young people's views on rights. In @InnovateJournal Journal of Innovate Teaching School Partnership, Milton Keynes.

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Buckler, Alison; Chamberlain, Liz; Stutchbury, Kris and Hedges, Claire (2020). Minimising the ‘distance’ in distance learning during a global health crisis: Framing an international education response to Covid-19. UKFIET The Education and Development Forum.

Chamberlain, Liz; Afroze, Jiniya; Cooper, Victoria and Collins, Trevor (2019). Representing children's rights from discussion through to illustration and interpretation. The Open University Children’s Research Centre and Amnesty UK International, Milton Keynes.

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Buckler, Alison; Mkwananzi, Faith; Chamberlain, Liz and Dean, Caroline (2019). Inclusive ways of knowing? Problematising the relationship between research and the design of inclusive education. In: 2019 UKFIET Conference, 17-19 Sep 2019, Oxford, UKFIET.

Chamberlain, Liz and Safford, Kimberly (2019). Learning Assistants in Sierra Leone: model, innovation, and impact. In: 9th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning - Innovations for Quality Education and Lifelong Learning (PCF9), 09-13 Sep 2019, Edinburgh.

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Chamberlain, Liz and Cooper, Victoria (2019). Representing children’s rights from discussion through to illustration and interpretation. Research Intelligence(139) pp. 13–14.

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Chamberlain, Liz (2019). Places, spaces and local customs: honouring the private worlds of out-of-school text creation. Literacy, 53(1) pp. 39–45.

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Chamberlain, Liz (2019). Inspiring Writing in Primary School. Exeter: Learning Matters.

Stutchbury, Kris; Chamberlain, Liz and Amos, Sandra (2019). Supporting Professional Development Through MOOCs: the TESSA Experience. In: Pan-Commonwealth Forum 9 (PCF9), 2019. Conference Proceedings, Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada.

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Baldwin, Lisa and Chamberlain, Liz (2018). Congratulations, you’re the English subject leader! In: Baldwin, Lisa ed. Leading English in the Primary School: A Subject Leader's Guide. Routledge, pp. 5–21.

Chamberlain, Liz (2018). Pedagogical choices in primary English. In: Baldwin, Lisa ed. Leading English in the Primary School: A Subject Leader's Guide. Routledge, pp. 82–94.

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Safford, Kimberly and Chamberlain, Liz eds. (2018). Learning and Teaching Around the World: Comparative and International Studies in Primary Education. Oxford: Routledge and the Open University.

Chamberlain, Liz and McDonald, Roger (2018). Investigating the aims, values and purposes of primary education: The case of the Cambridge Primary Review. In: Cremin, Teresa and Burnett, Cathy eds. Learning to Teach in the Primary School. London: Routledge, pp. 231–245.

Chamberlain, Liz and Harrett, Jacqueline (2017). The Power of Story. In: Moyles, Janet; Georgeson, Jan and Payler, Jane eds. Beginning Teaching, Beginning Learning in Early Years and Primary Education (5th edition). London: Open University Press, pp. 180–190.

Chamberlain, Liz (2017). Inspiring Writing in Primary Schools. Sydney, Australia: Primary English Teaching Association Australia.

Bearne, Eve; Chamberlain, Liz; Cremin, Teresa and Mottram, Marilyn (2016). Teaching Writing Effectively: Reviewing Practice (2nd edition). Ideas in practice. Leicester: UKLA.

Chamberlain, Liz (2016). Passageways of practice: punching through domain boundaries. In: LRA Conference: Mobilising Literacy Research for Social Transformation, 30 Nov - 3 Dec 2016, Nashville, Tennessee.

Chamberlain, Liz (2016). Chatterbooks: creating a culture of reading for pleasure. English 4 - 11

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Chamberlain, Liz (2016). A review of Link Ethiopia's sponsorship programme: learning from small stories. Link Ethiopia.

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Kurcikova, Natalia; Audain, Jon and Chamberlain, Liz (2016). Jumpstart! Apps: Creative learning, ideas and activities for ages 7-11. Jumpstart!. London: Routledge.

Chamberlain, Liz (2016). Passageways of practice: punching through domain boundaries. In: UKLA 52nd International Conference: Literacy, Equality and Diversity: Bringing voices together, 8-10 Jul 2016, Bristol, UK.

Chamberlain, Liz (2016). Inspiring Writing in Primary Schools. Exeter: Sage Publications.

Chamberlain, Liz (2016). Choosing The Write Book. Primary First pp. 5–10.

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Chamberlain, Elizabeth May (2015). Exploring the out-of-school writing practices of three children aged 9 - 10 years old and how these practices travel across and within the domains of home and school. EdD thesis The Open University.

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Chamberlain, Liz (2014). Creativity and literacy. In: Wilson, Anthony ed. Creativity in Primary Education (3rd ed). Achieving QTS. London: Sage, pp. 85–96.

Chamberlain, Liz; Flynn, Naomi and Daniel, Alastair (2014). Exploring teachers' subject knowledge for teaching English. In: UKLA International Conference. 50 Years of Literacy: Continuity and Change, 4-6 Jul 2014, Brighton.

Chamberlain, Liz and Harrett, Jacqueline (2011). The Power of Story. In: Moyles, Janet; Georgeson, Jan and Payler, Jane eds. Beginning Learning, Beginning Teaching: In Early Years and Primary Education (4th ed). Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp. 191–200.

Bearne, Eve; Chamberlain, Liz; Cremin, Teresa and Mottram, Marilyn (2011). Teaching Writing Effectively: Reviewing Practice. Leicester: UKLA.

Chamberlain, Liz (2011). Writing. In: Cox, Robyn ed. Primary English Teaching: An Introduction to Language, Literacy and Learning. London: Sage, pp. 37–50.

Chamberlain, Liz (2010). Where are we now in our approaches to the teaching of writing? In: UKLA 46th International Conference. The Changing Face of Literacy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 9-11 Jul 2010, Winchester.