Sheena Elwick is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education (ECE) within the School of Education at Charles Sturt University.
Sheena’s ECE career started over 20 years ago as a preschool teacher in a long day care service. Since then she has worked as a teacher and educational leader in different ECE settings, including mobile childcare where she worked with infants and toddlers (in mixed-age groups). Sheena was a member of the national consortium involved in the 2022 Updates to the Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia and My Time Our Place: Framework for School Age Care. She currently supports ECE services to reflect on and implement the updates in practice. She is the Program Lead for the Holding Space Program that has a specific focus on trauma-informed practice.
Sheena’s research interests are varied and are driven by her strong collaborative relationships with industry stakeholders and her focus on producing applicable, useful and practical outcomes to context-specific issues. As well as being a member of the ORICL team, Sheena currently leads several projects that aim to build capacity for implementing trauma-informed practice in ECE settings.
