Andrea is Professor of Early Childhood Education in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. She is a member of Deakin University's Strategic Research Centre (SRC) - Research for Educational Impact(REDl). Andrea is the founder and Chair of the Victorian Early Childhood Research Consortium (VECRC), a group of 90 cross-disciplinary researchers from a number of Victorian universities with some interstate university attendees who come together to support research capacity building in early childhood.