Professor Melanie Nind

Melanie began her teaching career in special schools as a teacher of students with severe and complex learning difficulties. It is here that she developed and evaluated the teaching approach of Intensive Interaction for which she is best known. She has also taught in further education colleges where she has coordinated support for students with learning difficulties and disabilities. In higher education she has worked as an associate research fellow in the Centre for Autism Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, as a senior lecturer in special education at Oxford Brookes University and at The Open University developing and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate distance learning courses in inclusive education. She joined University of Southampton as a Reader in 2004 and gained her personal chair in 2007. 

Prizes

• Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences (2019)
• Honorary Doctorate, VID specialized university, Norway (2019)
• Gold membership (2020)