5th ICPP: Oxford, UK, July 27-30, 1999

Organizer: Karin Murris

Bio of Karin Murris

Karin Murris (PhD) was the founder of the Society of Consultant Philosophers (SCP) in the UK and the main organiser of the 5th ICPP, Wadham College, Oxford in 1999. She currently works as Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Oulu (Finland) and Emerita Professor of Pedagogy and Philosophy, University of Cape Town (South Africa). She is a teacher educator and grounded in academic philosophy and a postqualitative research paradigm, her main interests are in philosophy in education, childhood studies, ethics, democratic postdevelopmental pedagogies, children’s literature and digital play. She is principal investigator of various projects, including The Post-Qualitative Research in Higher Education Collective (2021-2023), Children, Technology and Play (2019-2020) and Decolonising Early Childhood: Critical Posthumanism in Higher Education (2016-2019) in South Africa. Her books include: The Posthuman Child (2016), and (with Joanna Haynes) Literacies, Literature and Learning: Reading Classrooms Differently (2018), Picturebooks, Pedagogy and Philosophy (2012). She is co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Philosophy for Children (2017) and editor of Navigating the Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Terrain Across Disciplines (2021) and Glossary: Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research Across Disciplines (in press). She is Chief Editor of the Routledge Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research series and section editor of Routledge Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (in press).