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Rodriguez Leon, Lucy and Plowright-Pepper, Linda (2025). The emotional labour of online course discussion forums: some autoethnographic insights. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-learning (Early access).

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Josephidou, Joanne; Teszenyi, Eleonora; Buck, Julie; Dorrian, Jane; Plowright-Pepper, Linda and Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy (2024). The Early Childhood Student Journey (Phase 1).

Rodriguez Leon, Lucy (2024). Meaning, relationships, identities: An exploration of motive and intent in early childhood literacies. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 22(1) pp. 60–74.

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Musgrave, Jackie; Dorrian, Jane; Josephidou, Jo; Langdown, Ben and Rodriguez Leon, Lucy eds. (2024). Promoting Physical Development and Activity in Early Childhood: Practical Ideas for Early Years Settings. Little Minds Matter, 1. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Rodriguez Leon, Lucy (2024). Play and physical development in early childhood. In: Musgrave, Jackie; Dorrian, Jane; Josephidou, Joanne; Langdown, Ben and Rodriguez Leon, Lucy eds. Promoting Physical Development and Activity in Early Childhood: Practical Ideas for Early Years Settings. Little Minds Matter. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 94 -115.

Josephidou, Joanne and Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy (2024). Body systems, senses and physical development. In: Musgrave, Jackie; Dorrian, Jane; Josephidou, Joanne; Langdown, Ben and Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy eds. Promoting Physical Development and Activity in Early Childhood: Practical Ideas for Early Years Settings. Little Minds Matter. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 26–47.

Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Hulston, Samantha Jayne (2024). Informal book talk: digging beneath the surface. Education 3-13, 52(7) pp. 930–945.

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Hendry, Helen; Teszenyi, Eleonora; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy; Maynes, Mary-Louise; Dorrian, Jane and Edwards, Tracey (2024). Tensions, assumptions and situated ethics: attuning to the unpredictability of ethics in early childhood research participation. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal (Early access).

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Kucirkova, Natalia and Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy (2023). Multisensory Reading in Early Childhood: Systematic Review with Theoretical Guidance for Human Development Studies. Human Development, 67(4) pp. 193–210.

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Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Kucirkova, Natalia (2023). Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure. Abingdon: Routledge.

Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Biddle, Jon (2023). Informal book talk and reader recommendations. In: Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Kucirkova, Natalia eds. Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure. London: Routledge, pp. 87–100.

Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy (2023). Reflections on the rights of the reader. In: Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Kucirkova, Natalia eds. Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure. London: Routledge, pp. 127–130.

Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Kucirkova, Natalia (2023). Conclusion : Reading Teachers of tomorrow. In: Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Kucirkova, Natalia eds. Reading Teachers. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 193–197.

Kucirkova, Natalia; Rodriguez Leon, Lucy and Chinula, Neema Mwenda (2023). Rethinking Agency in Literacies: Malawian children’s and teachers’ perspectives. International Journal of Early Years Education (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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Josephidou, Joanne; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy; Bennett, Stephanie; Bolshaw, Polly; Musgrave, Jackie and Rix, Jonathan (2022). Where measurement stops: A review of systematic reviews exploring international research evidence on the impact of staff qualification levels in ECEC on the experiences of, and outcomes for, children and families.

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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.

Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Payler, Jane (2021). Surfacing complexity in shared book reading: the role of affordance, repetition and modal appropriation in children’s participation. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 28, article no. 100496.

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Rodriguez Leon, Lucy (2021). Sensing and configuring the world with text: bringing neo-Vygotskian thinking into dialogue with more-than-human literacies in early childhood. Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education, 44(2) pp. 253–268.

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Rodriguez León, Lucy Jane (2020). Literacy Experiences: An Exploration Of Young Children's Orientations, Identities, And Affective Relations With Text. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis The Open University.

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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).

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