Dr. Sid Mohandas

Dr. Sid
Mohandas

Researcher | Practitioner

Dr Sid Mohandas is a Montessori practitioner and childhood studies scholar, whose research in early childhood employs feminist, decolonial, anticolonial and more-than-human approaches. Sid has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and edited book collections. They are the author of the Bloomsbury Academic book Re-imagining Gender in the Early Childhood Workforce: Feminist and More-than-human Perspectives. More recently Sid co-edited the Special Issue on ‘Bewildering early childhood pioneers’ in the journal Pedagogy, Culture and Society, and is currently the co-editor for a Special Issue in British Educational Research Journal titled ‘The state of gender(s), young people and education: inequities, inter/intrasectionality and inclusivity’. Sid also serves as an editorial board member for the journal Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology.

Re-Imagining Gender in the Early Childhood Workforce

Feminist and More-than-human Perspectives

This book draws on feminist and more-than-human approaches to re-imagine gender in the early childhood workforce. Debates, policies and practices around gender in the early childhood workforce have predominantly focused on the under-representation of men and the recuperative outcomes promised through the inclusion of men. Mohandas’ research is, however, concerned with the ways a gendered workforce can be re-imagined when the boundaries of research are stretched beyond mere human inclusion and attention is paid to ordinary objects and unassuming relations that constitute everyday life in the nursery.

Through an attunement to the atmospheric, a gendered workforce is re-conceptualised as gendered forces that work across bodies (human and nonhuman), spaces, places and temporalities. Through vignettes from the nursery, Mohandas makes visible how each encounter is composed of gendered and more-than-gendered (i.e. racialised, classed and casted) forces, relations, stories and worlds.

Series Editors: Jayne Osgood and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw.

Education

Middlesex University, London, UK

PhD in Education

09.2018 – 09.2023

University College London, UK

MA in Early Years Education, Distinction

09.2016 – 09.2017

Montessori Centre International, London, UK

FdA in Montessori Early Childhood Practice, Merit

09.2014 – 07.2015

Montessori Centre International, London, UK

Montessori International Diploma, Pass

09.2012 – 06.2014

Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

MS in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Merit

09.2009 – 09.2011

VIT University, Vellore, India

Bachelors in Bioinformatics, Merit

07.2003 – 06.2007

Research Appointments

Commissioned Researcher/Consultant

Montessori in India 1939–1949 museum-style installation project for The Montessori Event Conference

07.2025 – 09.2025

Commissioned Scholar

Australian Research Council project, Transdisciplinary Engagements with Speculative/Science Fiction, led by Dr Sarah E. Truman

11.2023 – 02.2024

Research Assistant

Centre for Educational Research and Scholarship, School of Education, Middlesex University

06.2023 – 01.2024

Responsible for setting up, designing, and organising an online research platform and repository.

Research Assistant

The State of UK Boys research project, funded by Equimundo and UCL

03.2022 – 11.2022

Worked with the lead consultant to draft the literature review and advise on interview questions and interviewee selection.

Research Administrator and Coordinator

PhEmaterialisms

01.2021 – 03.2024

Research Assistant

Middlesex University, London

04.2021 – 05.2021

Responsible for the production of evidence for Professor Jayne Osgood’s REF Impact Case Study.

Teaching Appointments

Montessori Teacher

Highview Montessori Nursery, London

07.2024 – present

Guest Lecturer

Leeds Beckett University, MA Montessori and Social Justice

02.2024

Guest Lecturer

Cardiff University, BA Children and Childhood

02.2024

Lecturer

Middlesex University, MA Childhood and Education in Diverse Societies

03.2020 – 04.2020

Tutor

Montessori Centre International, Roots of Montessori MOOC

05.2020 – 06.2021

Tutor

Montessori Centre International, Gender and Sexuality in Early Years MOOC

05.2020 – 06.2021

Guest Lecturer

American Montessori Society, Anti-Bias Anti-Racist Course

04.2021

Guest Lecturer

Montessori Centre International / London Metropolitan University, Gender Diversity in Early Years

10.2019 – 11.2019

Teacher and Co-ordinator

Riverside Montessori, London

09.2017 – 04.2018

Dr. Sid
Mohandas

Publications &
Scholarly Output

Book

Extant Peer-Reviewed Publications

In Press & Forthcoming Peer-Reviewed Publications

Research

Miscellaneous Publications

Re-Imagining Gender in the Early Childhood Workforce

Education

Research Appointments

Teaching Appointments

Dr. SidMohandas

Publications &Scholarly Output

Book

Extant Peer-Reviewed Publications

In Press & Forthcoming Peer-Reviewed Publications

Research

Miscellaneous Publications

Re-Imagining Gender in the Early Childhood Workforce

Education

Research Appointments

Teaching Appointments

Dr. Sid
Mohandas

Publications &
Scholarly Output