Dr Fengling Tang is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies. Dr Tang is Programme Leader for the Froebel Professional Certificate in Early Childhood. Dr Tang is a member of the Research Centre for Learning, Teaching and Human Development, School of Education, Froebel College, University of Roehampton.

Dr Tang had worked in schools and further education in China and a nursery school in London before she joined the Early Childhood Studies and Early Childhood Research Centre at University of Roehampton. She has been teaching on BA/MA programmes and supervising doctoral students as Director of Studies and Co-supervisor. She has undertaken roles of External Examiner in HE and School Governor in the UK.

Dr Tang has published research articles in peer reviewed journals: Power and Education, Equity in Education and Society, Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development; Childhood Education: Infancy Through Early Adolescence; Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education; History of Education; and Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji. 

Dr Tang had an academic book published with Routledge in 2025: 

Tang, F.L., Guimaraes, S. and Rubiano, C. (2025) Young Children's Identities: a Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, Routledge

https://www.routledge.com/Young-Childrens-Identities-A-Multi-Disciplinary-Perspective/Tang-Guimaraes-Rubiano/p/book/9780367862749

Dr Tang has a monograph to be published with Emerald Publishing:

Tang, F.L. (forthcoming 2025-2026) Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Policy, Practice and Research, Emerald Publishing 

BA, PGdip, MA, PGCert, PhD

Her research interests include the following areas:

• children’s rights and participation
• children’s identities, spirituality and wellbeing 
• equity, inclusion and social justice in education and society 
• Froebelian perspectives and history of education 
• play and creativity in early childhood
• children's bilingual language development and Chinese culture
• early childhood pedagogy and professionalism
• sustainability in education 
• research and teaching in higher education 

Fengling Tang (2023-2024) Shifting youth environmental activism from public imagination to community engagement: implications for education for sustainability in the 21st century, funded by British Educational Research Association (BERA) (BERA Brian Simon Fund Winners) Final report to BERA (Tang, 2024): https://www.bera.ac.uk/publication/shifting-youth-environmental-activism-from-the-public-imagination-to-community-engagement

Fengling Tang (Principal Investigator) and Juan Zhao (Co-investigator) (2022-2024) Spirituality in early childhood pedagogy: a Froebelian approach in Chinese and English contexts, open call research grant funded by the Froebel Trust (https://www.froebel.org.uk/research-library/spirituality-in-early-childhood-pedagogy-a-froebelian-approach-in-chinese-and-english-contexts ) Final Report to Froebel Trust (Tang and Zhao 2024): https://www.froebel.org.uk/uploads/documents/FT-final-report-Spirituality-in-early-childhood-pedagogy-Nov-24.pdf

Evelyn Corrado (Principal Investigator), Fengling Tang (Co-investigator), and Arif Mahmud (Co-investigator) Exploring experiences of students and staff in HE institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sigrid Brogaard-Clausen, Sofia Guimaraes, Fengling Tang and Clara Rubiano (2018-2019) Wellbeing and democratic living in early childhood curricular policies - Chinese, Colombian, Danish, English and Portuguese Curricula analysis in the context of the International Early Learning and Wellbeing study developments

Early childhood assessment: an international perspective (2016-2017), research grant funded by Education International, led by Professor Mathias Urban, Early Childhood Research Centre  

Fengling Tang (2010-2012) Young children's computer-based learning experience in early years settings, funded by the Froebel Trust 

Fengling Tang and Sue Robson (2008-2009) The Role of the E-Portfolio in Promoting the Quality of Learning and Teaching: a Pilot Study of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) BA Primary Education Early Childhood Studies Subject Specialism, funded by Teaching and Development Agency

The completed PhD research project (2004-2008) A comparative ethnographic case study of the early years curriculum in Chinese and English settings, funded by School of Education University of Roehampton, supervised by Professor Kevin Brehony, Professor Geoff Troman, Ms Shirley Maxwell and Professor Hanlin Yang

Fengling Tang (2003-2004) Play worked hard: re-interpretation of Froebel's concept of play, MA dissertation submittted to University of Surrey. This dissertation won Froebel Guild Award in 2005 from the National Froebel Foundation. 

Froebel Professional Certificate Course in Early Childhood: Froebelian Principles and Practice (CPD)

BA Early Childhood Studies: Froebelian Perspectives; Studying Young Children; Children and Families; Early Childhood Stuides Transfer module; Research Proposal; Parents, Professionals and the Balance of Power; Professionalism and Advocacy; Leadership, Partnership and Multidisciplinary Teamwork; Unequal Childhoods

MA Early Childhood Studies: Exploring the Froebelian Legacy in Early Childhood Practice