Miriam McCaleb

I trained as an early childhood teacher in NZ in the good old days of community owned centres and action songs, graduating the same year as our curriculum, Te Whāriki (1994). I clawed my way to a BTchLn by doing part time papers when my firstborn was little. Then, disillusioned by the rise of corporate childcare, I defected to Health Sciences. Bit by bit did a PGDip in Health Science, and because I had questions that needed answering, I learned to be a researcher in my forties, completing my MHealSci (Dist) in 2020. Finally, I got to work on my PhD and published in 2024 - with zero amendments.