Linda has a background of experience as a teacher of the deaf and educational audiologist and her research and teaching are rooted in this experience. She is particularly interested in the early language and literacy development of young deaf children and how this can be enhanced by the use of cochlear implants and/or digital hearing aids. She has a collaboration with the University of ...

Julie Allan is Professor of Equity and Inclusion and Visiting Professor at the University of Borås in Sweden. She moved to Birmingham from the University of Stirling where she was Deputy Head of School and co-founder of the Laboratory in Educational Theory. Her work encompasses inclusive education, disability studies and children’s rights and is both empirical and theoretical. She has ...

Nick Bozic works on the initial training course for educational psychologists. His special interests include community psychology and the use of web-based technology to support learning. Fifty percent of his time is spent working as a practicing educational psychologist in the West Midlands.

Graeme is the co-director of the Visual Impairment Centre for Teaching and Research (VICTAR), School of Education. In that role he co-ordinates the research within the centre. He joined the School of Education as a researcher in 1993 having completed his PhD in the area of individual differences in learning and computer-based presentation (also at Birmingham). Before that he completed a degree in ...

Karen Guldberg is currently Director of the Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER) at the School of Education, University of Birmingham and a senior lecturer in Autism Studies in the Department of Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN).

Within ACER, Karen runs the world’s first and largest blended e-learning programme for practitioners and carers who work with ...

Neil Hall started in his current role in September 2010, although for 20 years, as an Honorary Lecturer, he taught on various CPD programmes in special education and child protection and on initial and post qualification doctoral training courses in educational psychology.  Neil is a Chartered Psychologist registered with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Practitioner ...

Rachel Hewett is a Research Associate based at Visual Impairment Centre for Teaching and Research

She has been working in VICTAR since February 2010, after moving over from Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit. She is primarily working on a project funded by Nuffield Foundation and has been focusing particularly on the transition experience of visually impaired ...

Alongside her work as a lecturer, Liz is also an advisory teacher for deafblind children for a local authority. This maintains her daily contact with deafblind people and promotes the integration of new ideas and research into practice.

Initially teaching children with severe learning difficulties, an interest in sensory impairment led her on to working with deafblind adults in ...

Julia has a background in teaching in both secondary school and further education. She works part-time as a Senior Educational Psychologist for a local authority in the West Midlands.

Dr Glenys Jones is a Chartered Psychologist, lecturer and researcher in the Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER) at the School of Education, University of Birmingham. She has worked in the field of autism for over 30 years and is particularly interested in educational interventions and evaluation. Her experience with parents and families as an Educational Psychologist and ...

Penny Lacey had a background in teaching children and young people with severe, profound and complex learning difficulties before she came to the School of Education in 1991. She is programme lead for the postgraduate Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties programme.

Jane works as a tutor in educational psychology and is involved in teaching and supervising trainee educational psychologists on the three year initial training programme (Applied Educational and Child Psychology Doctorate). She is also Director of the research doctorate for practising educational psychologists (Ed Psych D programme) which has over 40 students enrolled.

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Paul joined the School of Education 2006 to take up a three-year research post as a research fellow in VICTAR. He is working on a Sightsavers International funded project studying the educational inclusion of children with visual impairment in developing countries. This involves establishing an evidence base demonstrating the effectiveness of different educational models of education for children ...

Before joining the University Andrea worked in the voluntary sector, supporting adults with disabilities. She developed and managed models of support (including supported living, employment, peer support and community inclusion) for adults with Asperger syndrome within the West Midlands region.

Natasha joined the School of Education in 2001 and is a research fellow in the Department of Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN). She is currently working on the AHRC funded project 'Cultural Intermediation and the Creative Economy' examining how cultural intermediation has developed historically. She has been involved in a wide range of interdisciplinary research projects with ...

Qualifying as a speech and language therapist, Deirdre spent over two years in a special school in Peru, where she worked, through Spanish, with teachers and children with a range of educational needs. She continued to work as a speech and language therapist in the UK, and obtained masters and doctoral degrees in aspects of speech and language development and difficulty in bilingual children. She ...

Mike McLinden is  'Professor in the School of Education' in the Department of 'Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs' at the University of Birmingham. He is currently interim Director of Education for the School and until March 2013 was interim 'Director of Educational Development' at the University's Centre for Learning and Academic Development (CLAD).  Mike has ...

Sue has been a practising educational psychologist for more than 25 years, and, in addition to her teaching and research responsibilities within the University, continues to practice as a chartered educational psychologist on a 0.1 full-time equivalent basis.

Prior to her appointment as a Teaching Fellow, Michele had experience of working with children and young people of all ages and abilities, within both residential schools as well as day schools. She was a Headteacher of two schools - a secondary school for pupils with severe, profound and complex learning difficulties and also a mainstream primary school with a Nursery attached.

Chris has worked in the higher education sector since 1992, lecturing at the Institute of Education (University of London) and Canterbury Christ Church University College before taking up his current post at The University of Birmingham.

Anita Soni is an Academic and Professional tutor in the School of Education.

Anita has published one book on the Early Years Foundation Stage, with a second due out in September 2011. She works part time at the University of Birmingham in the Educational Psychology department and also works as an Educational Psychologist with a range of primary schools and Children’s Centres ...

Gary Thomas took up the post of chair in education at Birmingham in 2005. Before university teaching, he worked as a teacher and as an educational psychologist. In higher education – at the University of Leeds, at Oxford Brookes University, UWE and University College London – his teaching and research have focused on inclusion, special education, and research methodology in ...

Kerstin has been appointed as a lecturer and researcher in the Autism Centre for Education and Research. She previously worked for several years in the Oxford Autism Research Group, where she managed the work programme of the International Molecular Genetics Study of Autism Consortium (IMGSAC). As a member of staff at the Oxford Neurodevelopmental Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Centre, Kerstin ...

Jane has a background in teaching in early years and special education. She was an Educational Psychologist from 1993 until she retired from Local Authority practice in 2011. She continues to do some locum work for a Midlands local authority. She is a Health Professions Council Registered Practitoner Psychologist and a Chartered Educational Psychologist.

Ann Lewis is Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK) where she was research leader for a unique, 35-strong, academic group focusing on children with special needs or disabilities. She is also Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick (UK).

She has a longstanding interest in the ‘voice’ of disabled children, in particular, conceptual and ...

Despite retirement at age 67 in 2001, he has maintained his interest and research in the educational and psychological development of blind and partially sightede people, especially children and adolescents. He is currently re-examining the mass of data gathered on a group of 120 visually impaired children who were aged 5 at the beginning of the research in 1972.

He has ...