Staff

 

Core team 

• Dr Susana Castro-Kemp (Director) 

• Dr Miriam McBreen (Deputy Director and Comms Lead) 

• Dean Crow (Project Officer) 

• Dora Kokosi (Lecturer in Psychology) 

• Gergo Bartl (Lecturer in Psychology)  
   

Members

• Nicola Abbott

• Catherine Antalek 

• Ed Baines

• Paula Bosanquet

• Gisele Dias

• Julie Dockrell

• Rosanne Esposito

• Liory Fern-Pollak

• Roberto Filippi 

• Marta Francesconi

• Zoe Gallant 

• Jamie Galpin

• Rebecca Gordon (Impact Lead) 

• Liz Halstead

• Jessica Hayton 

• 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)

• Juhayna Taha 

• Jo Van Herwegen (Co-Head of Research) 

• Zachary Walker (Head of the Department of Psychology and Human Development) 

• Youyou Wu 
   

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 
   

Advisory Board 

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• 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, Assistant Headteacher (Inclusion/SENCo) at St James' Roman Catholic Primary School (Richmond)

• 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