23 October 2025, 12:00–16:00 in-person in Norwich, and 13:00-16:00 online
In-person venue: Room C. Chamber, The Council House Building, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ.
A joint event between BALID, ROMLIT project and the UNESCO Chair at the University of East Anglia. Join for a special afternoon of celebrations, beginning with lunch and a chance for sharing your practice and research with other likeminded people.
There will be a presentation from UEA’s ROMLIT project team, sharing their work with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families to explore and learn from their early literacy practices.
ROMLIT helps unlock the potential of all children’s literacies through context-specific, community-sensitive and relevant materials and practices it helps develop. They use participatory and children-led methodologies which are sensitive to the needs of parents, carers and children at the early years stage. ROMLIT creates training, Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses and bespoke resources to serve professionals and carers who work with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children. They explore literacies in formal and informal settings and in the everyday context. They approach literacies as multifaceted and diverse social practices and we research their overlap with early years children’s learning, growing and developing as learners and human beings.