After working at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, The University of Waikato in New Zealand for a decade, Amanda has returned to her homeland of Wales and is Professor of Early Years at Birmingham City University. Amanda is a qualified early childhood teacher-practitioner, working for many years in this role prior to her academic career. She has led many research projects exploring the everyday interactions of infants, toddlers and young children using multimodal conversation analysis in various contexts including mealtime interactions, conflict, storytelling and pedagogy, publishing widely from this research. For more details see talkingwithchildren.org and https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1492-5122