Josephine Deguara is an Associate Professor at the University of Malta. Her research centres on children’s voices and perspectives using participatory approaches that foreground children’s drawings as a methodological tool for exploring meaning-making, identity, and lived experiences. Her broader scholarly interests include curriculum philosophy, play-based pedagogy, ecological thinking, and leadership in early childhood education. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and collaborates internationally on a range of research projects. She has presented her work at numerous international conferences, and she has co-edited academic books.