Chris Pascal's degree and Masters were both in social sciences, and as a very young student she worked in a residential children's home. But after a PGCE at Warwick University, she became an infant teacher in an inner city school, setting herself apart by being the only infant teacher in the city of Birmingham to undertake a part-time PhD. She paid for it herself because, as the grant-awarding official explained to her, 'Why on earth would an infant teacher want a PhD?'.
In a quest to find more positive and supportive perspectives of young children and families, Chris began linking with continental colleagues. In 1991, she and Tony Bertram joined forces with Ferre Laevers and set up a group called the European Early Childhood Education Research Association, now also the largest annual early childhood research conference in Europe. Chris has been its president since 2007. In 1993, she established what has become the foremost European early childhood research journal, the SSCI-rated EECERJ, for which she acted as co-ordinating editor until 2007.
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