Dr Elizabeth Nelson
- Lecturer in Multimodal Literacies (School of Education)
telephone:
1714
email:
Elizabeth.Nelson@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154Biography
Elizabeth L. Nelson is Lecturer of Multimodal Literacies at the University of Glasgow. Her research examines play and new technologies in the hands of children drawing on historical and literary representations of children’s play and culture to understand experiences of childhood today. She has published on young people’s relationship to digital technologies, historical accounts of play, and creative methodologies in research encounters with children and young people. Her current work focuses on children’s everyday culture, post-digital childhoods and understanding co-presence through sharing picturebooks online and off and digital play.
Research interests
childhood; play; children's literature; post-digital; digital; historical childhoods; creative methodologies; film; young people; folklore; childcare; new technologies; culture
Publications
2025
Imperiale, M. G. et al. (2025) LINEs4Palestine. Project Report. University of Glasgow.
2024
Bradley, Lisa 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-7649, Perry, Mia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-7093, Fassetta, Giovanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-4429, Ryan, Sadie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2854-1741 and Nelson, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154
(2024)
Denaturalizing “intelligence” in Higher Education: AI as a rupture to imagining and manifesting sustainable and anti-colonial literacies.
Reading Research Quarterly, 59(4),
pp. 579-589.
(doi: 10.1002/rrq.540)
2022
Ptolomey, Mindy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2917-1060 and Nelson, Elizabeth L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154
(2022)
A creative conversation for re-imagining creative visual methods with children and young people in pandemic times and beyond.
Sociological Research Online, 27(3),
pp. 684-689.
(doi: 10.1177/13607804221089681)
Buccholz, Beth, Davis, Summer, Deliman, Amanda, Harrison, Karyn, Iyer, Ishwarya, Nelson, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154, Pennington, Casey and Scott, Jill Allison
(2022)
Taking playful methods into the wild.
In: Medina, Carmen, Perry, Mia and Wohlwend, Karen (eds.)
Playful Methods: Engaging the Unexpected in Literacy Research.
Series: Expanding literacies in education.
Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 112-129.
ISBN 9780367211516
(doi: 10.4324/9780429265730-9)
Nelson, Elizabeth L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154
(2022)
Dancing with phones, cones and cameras Traditional play in a post-digital playground in Scotland.
Clio: Women, Gender, History, 56,
pp. 167-180.
Nelson, Elizabeth L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154
(2022)
Danser dans la cour d’école à l’ère post-numérique.
Clio: Femmes, Genre, Histoire, 56(2),
pp. 165-178.
2020
Nelson, Elizabeth L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154
(2020)
Recollecting childhood: writing the child at play.
In: Deszcz-Tryhubczak, ByJustyna and Kalla, Irena (eds.)
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature.
Series: Children's literature and culture.
Routledge: New York ; London, pp. 137-150.
ISBN 9780367501433
(doi: 10.4324/9781003048985-12)
Nelson, Elizabeth L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154, Perry, Mia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-7093 and Rogers, Theresa
(2020)
Introducing offlineness: theorizing (digital) literacy engagements.
Journal of Literacy Research, 52(1),
pp. 101-107.
(doi: 10.1177/1086296X19898003)
Articles
Bradley, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-7649, Perry, Mia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-7093, Fassetta, Giovanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-4429, Ryan, Sadie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2854-1741 and Nelson, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154
(2024)
Denaturalizing “intelligence” in Higher Education: AI as a rupture to imagining and manifesting sustainable and anti-colonial literacies.
Reading Research Quarterly, 59(4),
pp. 579-589.
(doi: 10.1002/rrq.540)
Ptolomey, Mindy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2917-1060 and Nelson, Elizabeth L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154
(2022)
A creative conversation for re-imagining creative visual methods with children and young people in pandemic times and beyond.
Sociological Research Online, 27(3),
pp. 684-689.
(doi: 10.1177/13607804221089681)
Nelson, Elizabeth L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154
(2022)
Dancing with phones, cones and cameras Traditional play in a post-digital playground in Scotland.
Clio: Women, Gender, History, 56,
pp. 167-180.
Nelson, Elizabeth L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154
(2022)
Danser dans la cour d’école à l’ère post-numérique.
Clio: Femmes, Genre, Histoire, 56(2),
pp. 165-178.
Nelson, Elizabeth L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154, Perry, Mia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-7093 and Rogers, Theresa
(2020)
Introducing offlineness: theorizing (digital) literacy engagements.
Journal of Literacy Research, 52(1),
pp. 101-107.
(doi: 10.1177/1086296X19898003)
Book Sections
Buccholz, Beth, Davis, Summer, Deliman, Amanda, Harrison, Karyn, Iyer, Ishwarya, Nelson, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154, Pennington, Casey and Scott, Jill Allison
(2022)
Taking playful methods into the wild.
In: Medina, Carmen, Perry, Mia and Wohlwend, Karen (eds.)
Playful Methods: Engaging the Unexpected in Literacy Research.
Series: Expanding literacies in education.
Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 112-129.
ISBN 9780367211516
(doi: 10.4324/9780429265730-9)
Nelson, Elizabeth L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-5154
(2020)
Recollecting childhood: writing the child at play.
In: Deszcz-Tryhubczak, ByJustyna and Kalla, Irena (eds.)
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature.
Series: Children's literature and culture.
Routledge: New York ; London, pp. 137-150.
ISBN 9780367501433
(doi: 10.4324/9781003048985-12)
Research Reports or Papers
Imperiale, M. G. et al. (2025) LINEs4Palestine. Project Report. University of Glasgow.
Grants
Exploring Print Picturebooks In Online Spaces, UKLA Small Grant, January 2021-July 2022. Co-Investigator with Amanda Ptolomey. PI Dr Soumi Dey.
The Play Play, ESRC IAA £13,603 and Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Enabling Fund (GKEF) £15,000, PI Elizabeth Nelson, Co-I Mia Perry, Mentor Zoë Strachan.
Supervision
I welcome enquiries to supervise research students with interests in childhood and play, children's digital encounters, post-digital childhoods and childlore.
- Han, Xuan
Women’s experiences of family-programming in museums: A feminist perspective on museums’ role in inclusive education for parents and carers. - Van Dinter, Emma
Summative Multimodal Assessments: Developing Practitioners' Understanding and Access to Multimodal Assessments for Utilisation in the BGE English Classroom - ZHANG, Rong
Multilingual learners' Literary Encounter with Audio books
Teaching
Elizabeth is course lead and lecturer on courses across the MEd in Children's Literature and Literacies and the MSc Education for Sustainable Futures Master's program and on the Erasmus Mundas program, Children's Literature Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship. She supervises dissertations at postgraduate levels (Masters and Doctoral levels).
Additional information
Elizabeth is Early Career Rep for the Children's History Society and also a member of United Kingdom Literacies Association (UKLA) and the International Research Society of Children's Literature (IRSCL)
