Articles

Mikuska, E. (2023) Conversation with my Classmates: displacement, war, and survival. Genealogy, 7 (4). pp. 1-11. ISSN 2313-5778

Mikuska, E., Fairchild, N., Sabine, A. and Barton, S.et al (2023) Quality Early Childhood Education and Care practices: the importance of skills, knowledge and the Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner competences. International Journal of Early Years Education. pp. 1-15. ISSN 0966-9760

Kurowski, A. A. and Mikuska, E. (2023) Language, self-esteem, and academic achievement: mature students’ emotionally incited stories. Educational Role of Language Journal, 2023-1 (9). pp. 21-32. ISSN 2657-9774

Mikuska, E., Raffai, J. and Vukov Raffai, E. (2023) Thinking through the lens of dialogical self, I positions and intersectionality for exploring how Hungarian kindergarten pedagogues experienced the new Curriculum Framework. Global Studies of Childhood, 14 (2). pp. 156-170. ISSN 2043-6106

Mikuska, E. (2023) "Knowledge production in academic spaces. Disturbing conferences and composing events". Journal of Posthumanism, 3 (1). pp. 73-74. ISSN 2634-3576

Mikuska, E. (2023) Policy and Governmentality of Early Childhood Education and Care in England. Pedagoška stvarnost, 68 (2). pp. 123-138. ISSN 0553-4569

Khan, T. and Mikuska, E. (2023) The relationship between the supervisors and the supervisee: Experiences of PhD completers. Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences, 12 (4). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2560-5429

Sabine, A., Barton, S., Mikuska, E. and Fairchild, N.et al (2023) Research into trainees: perception of graduate and undergraduate trainees in the early years sector. Early Years Educator, 23 (19). pp. 33-34. ISSN 1465-931X

Mikuska, E., Raffai, J. and Vukov Raffai, E. (2022) Secondary analysis of qualitative data: Hungarian minority kindergarten pedagogues’ perspectives of the new Curriculum Framework in Serbia. Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 3 (3). pp. 259-269. ISSN 2717-638X

Mikuska, E., Khan, T. and Kurowski, A. A. (2021) Home-schooling during the lockdown in England. Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences, 11 (3). pp. 1-18. ISSN 2560-5429

Mikuska, E. and Lyndon, S. (2021) Co-constructions, co-performances and co-reflections in early years qualitative research. Journal of Early Childhood Research. ISSN 1476-718X

Fairchild, N. and Mikuska, E. (2021) Emotional labor, ordinary affects and the early childhood education and care worker. Gender, Work & Organization, 28 (3). pp. 1177-1190. ISSN 0968-6673

Khan, T. and Mikuska, E. (2021) The first three weeks of lockdown in England: The challenges of detecting safeguarding issues amid nursery and primary school closures due to COVID-19. Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 3 (1). p. 100099. ISSN 2590-2911

Mikuska, E. and Fairchild, N. (2020) Working with (post)theories to explore embodied and unrecognised emotional labour in English Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Global Education Review, 7 (2). pp. 75-89. ISSN 2325-663X

Raffai, J., Vukov Raffai, E. and Mikuska, E. (2018) Marking the 175th anniversary of the first Hungarian ethnic minority nursery in Vojvodina, the national identity and the importance of sustaining the native language A 175 éves vajdasági magyar óvodapedagógia a nemzeti identitás és az anyanyelvhasználat kérdésének tükrében. Tanulmányok.

Mikuska, E. and Raffai, J. (2018) Early childhood education and care for the Hungarian national minority in Vojvodina, Serbia. Early Years: An International Research Journal. pp. 1-18. ISSN 1472-4421

Mikuska, E. (2017) Embodied emotionality in teaching and researching in higher education. Módszertani Közlöny, 7 (1). pp. 190-199. ISSN 2217-4540

Mikuska, E. (2017) The Importance of Piloting or Pre-Testing Semi-Structured Interviews and Narratives. SAGE Research Methods Cases.

Mikuska, E. (2014) The relationship between higher education, emotion and gender: a qualitative study using text and interviews. Research Methods.

Book Sections

Mikuska, E. and Kurowski, A. A. (2023) Developing the practice of staff in partnership with employers. In: The Early Years Handbook for Students and Practitioners. Routledge, London, pp. 34-40. ISBN 9781003154853

Mikuska, E. (2023) Your emotional, personal life and achievements as an undergraduate. In: The Early Years Handbook for Students and Practitioners: An Essential Guide for the Foundation Degree and Levels 4 and 5. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781003154853

Kurowski, A. A. and Mikuska, E. (2023) From setting to strategy: a study into perspectives on higher education of experienced early years practitioners, a 'paradigm shift' on two levels. In: Papers of studies. [2022] 16th International Scientific Conference . University of Novi Sad, Serbia, pp. 93-103. ISBN 9788681960196

Mikuska, E. (2021) The Importance of Early Childhood Education and Care for Hungarian Ethnic Minority Groups in Romania, Slovak Republic and Serbia. In: The SAGE Handbook of Global Childhoods. Sage, London, pp. 383-397. ISBN 9781529717815

Mikuska, E. and Lyndon, S. (2018) Embodied professional early childhood education and care teaching practices. In: Conversations on Embodiment Across Higher Education. Routledge Research in Higher Education . Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781138290044

Mukadam, Y. and Mikuska, E. (2016) Developing the practice of staff in partnership with employers. In: The Early Years Handbook for Students and Practitioners. Routledge, Oxon, pp. 43-60. ISBN 978-1-138-776395

Mikuska, E. (2016) Your Emotional, Personal Life and Your Achievements as an Undergraduate. In: The Early Years Handbook for Students and Practitioners: An essential guide for the foundation degree and levels 4 and 5. Routledge, London, pp. 3-15. ISBN ISBN-13: 978-1138776401

Monographs

Fairchild, N., Mikuska, E., Sabine, A. and Sarah, B.et al (2022) The Early Childhood Education and Care sector’s perspective on the Early Childhood Studies graduate and the Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies. Project Report. University of Chichester, Chichester.

Conference or Workshop Items

Mikuska, E. (2023) Paradigm Shift in Qualitative Inquiry: Impact of Higher Education on students studying Early Childhood Studies (ECS) Degree in SE England and Isle of Wight. In: International Conference; European Network for Qualitative Enquiry ENQI, 10th to 13th January 2023, Portsmouth, UK.

Mikuska, E. (2022) Narrative approach to investigate experiences of kindergarten pedagogues in Serbia. In: International Conference - Narrative ISSN, 28-30 June 2022, University of Chichester.

Mikuska, E. (2021) Emotional labour and the democratic ECEC. In: European Circular Economy Research Alliance EECERA online festival, 1-14 September 2021, Zagreb, Croatia.

Mikuska, E. (2020) The hidden impact of policy requirements on nursery workers in England. In: British Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2020, 4-6 Sep 2020, Online.

Mikuska, E. (2016) Deconstructing the ‘voice’ of students studying early childhood education and care (ECEC) that informs the teaching and learning strategies in higher education in the uk context (Hangdekonstrukció az óvónőképzésben: óvodapedagógiai módszertan az egyesült királyságban) Book of selected papers. In: 10th International Methodological Conference, 2016, Subotica, Serbia.

Abbott, R., Fairchild, N., Lyndon, S. and Mikuska, E.et al (2016) Problematising the concept of ‘voice’ in Early Childhood research. In: British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 13-15 September 2016, University of Leeds.

Mikuska, E. (2015) The Neo-liberal Undercurrent: Unpaid Staff or Volunteers and Their Impact on the Early Years Sector. In: Annual University Research Conference, 15/07/2015, Bognor Regis Campus. (Submitted)

Mikuska, E. (2014) “Because I am a Mother, I am a better practitioner”: An unexpected theme arising from the analysis of pilot study. In: Society for Research into Higher Education, 9-10 December, Newport.

Mikuska, E. and Kurowski, A. A. (2014) Mature students’ stories: a study investigating the complexity of interpretation. In: To Think is to Experiment, 30 April 2014, Centre for Narrative Research (CNR), in collaboration with NOVELLA (Narratives of Varied Everyday Lives and Linked Approaches), University of East London.

Mikuska, E. (2013) Enter the world of the student's emotion. In: Research and Scholarship Conference, 03 Jul 2013, University of Chichester, Bognor Regis Campus. (Unpublished)

Mikuska, E. (2013) Emotions as a specific aspect of Higher Education. In: CNR-NOVELLA research day - To think is to experiment, 1 May 2013, University of East London. (Unpublished)

Theses

Mikuska, E. (2020) Nursery workers’ narratives: what makes a ‘good’ nursery worker? Doctoral thesis, London Metropolitan University.

Mikuska, E. (2013) Epistemological issues which are fundamental to examining how mature students experience their undergraduate degree in the UK. Doctoral thesis, London Metropolitan University.

Videos

Mikuska, E. (2018) The Importance of Pilot Studies. [Videos]

Other

Mikuska, E. (2022) Book Review: Social leadership in early childhood education and care: An introduction by J O’Sullivan and M Sakr. Sage, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood.