Associate Professor Nikolay Veresov

Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia

Contact details:

Tel: +61 3 990 44638

Position:

Dr. Nikolay Veresov is an Associate Professor in Early Childhood at Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.

Academic roles:

Child and Community faculty Research group, Faculty of Education, Monash University – leader

Biography

Nikolai has an experience as a day care centre and kindergarten teacher (1987-1991) and secondary school teacher (1982-1987). He has got his first PhD degree in Moscow in 1990 and started his academic career in Murmansk (Russia) as a senior lecturer (1991-1993) and the Head of Department of Early Childhood (1993-1997). The second PhD was obtained in University of Oulu (Finland) in 1998. From 1999 to 2011 he had been affiliated to Kajaani Teacher Training Department (Finland) as a Senior Researcher and the Scientific Director of the international projects. He published 5 books and over 60 articles available in 9 languages. His area of interests is development in early years, cultural-historical theory, genetic research methodology.

Research & Supervision Interests

    • child development,
    • cultural-historical theory,
    • cultural-historical research methodology in Early Childhood

Qualifications

Candidate of psychological sciences

Institution: Moscow pedagogical State University, Russia

Year awarded: 1991

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of Oulu, Finland

Year awarded: 1998