Dr Sinéad McNally currently holds a Deans’ Research Fellow at the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre and is an Associate Professor in Psychology and Early Childhood Education at the DCU Institute of Education, where she specialises in early child development in inclusive educational contexts. Her externally funded research shows how play, books and early experiences support children’s educational attainment and development. As Principal Investigator of a prestigious IRC COALESCE award, Sinéad leads a national interdisciplinary study of the school experiences of autistic pupils. Sinéad was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the international SAGE journal, Active Learning in Higher Education, and she sits on the editorial boards of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education’s International Journal of Early Childhood and the International Journal of Early Years Education.