Staff

Staff in the Centre for Inclusive Education.

Core team 

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Members

  • Nicola Abbot
  • Catherine Antelek 
  • Ed Baines
  • Paula Bosanquet
  • Gisele Dias
  • Julie Dockrell
  • Rosanne Esposito
  • Liory Fern-Pollak
  • Roberto Filippi 
  • Marta Francesconi
  • Zoe Gallant (EDI lead) 
  • Jamie Galpin
  • Rebecca Gordon (Impact Lead) 
  • Liz Halstead
  • Jessica Hayton (Enterprise Lead)
  • Elizabeth Herbert (Social media strategy) 
  • Andrew Holliman 
  • Brian Irvine
  • Leda Kamenopoulou (Accessibility and Ethics Lead) 
  • Evi Katsapi
  • Joanna Kolak (Social media strategy) 
  • Daisy Loyd 
  • Chloe Marshall (Honorary member)
  • Jackie Masterson
  • Sarah Muzelle 
  • Bonamy Oliver
  • Steven Papachristou
  • Nina Polytimou
  • Anna Remington
  • Panos Rentzelas 
  • Amelia Roberts
  • Donna-Lynn Shepherd
  • Vassilis Sideropoulos
  • Matt Somerville
  • Emma Sumner (Honorary member) 
  • Juhayana Taha 
  • Andrew Tolmie (Co-Head of Research) 
  • Jo Van Herwegen (Co-Head of Research) 
  • Zachary Walker (Head of the Department of Psychology and Human Development) 
  • Youyou Wu

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Doctoral Students and Early Career Researchers 

  • Kalliopi Kritsotaki: Digital Storytelling: An Educational Tool for Enhancing Dyslexic Children’s Writing Skills, Critical and Cultural Learning Based on Green’s 3d Model 
  • Fatema Jangbarwala: Understanding Quality and Equity in Early Childhood Education and Care Provision in Pakistan 
  • Louise Grimmett: Radicalisation and Young People, End Date: Dec 2027 
  • Hannah Hamid: Examining the Efficacy of Parental Involvement for Parents of Children with Special Educational Needs: A Multifaceted Inquiry, End Date: Dec 2025 
  • John Kearney: Impact of Implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) in a National Support Agency for Special Education, End Date: Sept 2027 
  • Claire Sutton: Exploring the Barriers to Secondary School Student's Development of Critical Thinking Skills and Dispositions, End Date: Sept 2027 
  • Heba Al-Jayoosi: Improving Home-school Collaboration for Caregivers of Autistic Children from Minority Ethnic Backgrounds, End Date: Sept 2027 
  • Skylar Powell: How Self-construals Moderate Attention and Responses to Comparative Feedback, and Perceptions of Summative Assessment Fairness, End date: Aug 26 
  • Minoushe Grant: What Are the Current Processes for the Reintegration of Students That Have Been Suspended from Secondary Schools Across Two London Boroughs? 
  • Rebecca Lewis: The impact of Teaching Assistant’s assigned daily tasks on their subjective wellbeing in mainstream schools, in progress, EP supervisor Chris Bagley 
  • Terry Bennett: Drivers of, and Barriers to, the Provision of Speech and Language Support in Primary Schools: the Headteacher Perspective 
  • Gabriella Reyes: Decolonising the International Baccalaureate through the Library: Critical Information Literacy and Curricular Reform 
  • Nooreen Sidi: Examining the Modalities of the Primary Education System in Kenya to Inform Inclusive Education Policy and Practice for Children with Learning Disabilities 
  • Sofiana Millati: School Participation of Children with Disability: Understanding Inclusive Education in Indonesia

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Advisory Board 

  • Dr Susana Castro-Kemp Director of the UCL Centre for Inclusive Education Associate Professor in Psychology and Human Development UCL Centre for Inclusive Education UCL Institute of Education 
  • Dr Miriam McBreen Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Inclusive Education Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development UCL Centre for Inclusive Education UCL Institute of Education
  • Prof. Tim O’Brien, Chair of CIE Advisory Board, Professor, UCL Centre for Inclusive Education UCL Institute of Education and University of Limerick
  • Prof. Chloe Marshall Emerita Professor of Psychology, Language and Education UCL Institute of Education, University College London
  • Prof. Jo Van Herwegen, Professor in Psychology and Human Development and Head of research at UCL Institute of Education, University College London
  • Dr Dennis Guiney, Educational Psychologist
  • Dr Johanna Fitzgerald National Inclusion, Special Education and Research Coordinator, Senior Lecturer Education and Training Boards of Ireland Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
  • Tom Staniford, marketing and digital media specialist 
  • Marie Neave, Executive Headteacher Drumbeat School ASD Services
  • Ms Melanie Cunningham
  • Tina Sode, Tower Hamlets SEND services 
  • Richard White, Retired Solicitor specialising in child law and former Tribunal Judge of the First-tier Tribunal (the Social Entitlement Chamber)
  • Taneisha Pascoe-Matthews, Teacher and SENCo 
  • Hannah Hamid, PhD student Senior Inclusion Adviser Department for Psychology and Human Development BDSIP
  • Tom Silver, Project Coordinator and Trainer Action-Attainment
  • Annamarie Hassall MBE CEO, National Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN) 
  • Sheldon Snashall, Achieving for Children 

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