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Centre for Research in Inclusion

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Our educational researchers are working to further theoretical understandings and practices of inclusion, through participatory and practitioner-based methodologies.

Part of Education

About

The centre is headed by Professor Kiki Messiou and Dr Vasilis Strogilos. Our members work with a strong network of collaborators who value and conduct research that addresses inclusion. They engage with the needs of participants and research users.

We focus on developing research that fosters and improves inclusive practice in an inclusive way. This means we often work with teachers and young people to carry out our research. 

We have particular expertise in: 

  • differentiation
  • collaborative working 
  • social and emotional dimensions of learning  
  • classroom interaction using technology  
  • learners experiencing marginalisation, social disadvantage or poverty  
  • learners with autism and learning disabilities

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Research highlights

People, projects and publications

People

Dr Cristina Azaola

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Social inclusion and exclusion through schooling
  • School belonging in urban and rural educational settings
  • Education inequalities: the public and private school divide

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: m.c.azaola@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Dr Vivienne Rwang

Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Education effectiveness and improvement in challenging contextsEducational displacements (IDPs & Refugees)Educational accessibility and quality provision for displaced personsEducational marginalisation, inequality, and inclusion in displacement contextsIDP/Refugee Education Policy and Practice

Ms Elspeth Clark

Research interests

  • People with profound and multiple intellectual disabilities
  • Inclusive research
  • Belonging

Miss Hongye Li

Research interests

  • Inclusive education
  • Assistive technology
  • Mobile learning

Dr Jay de los Reyes

Lecturer

Research interests

  • youth
  • mobilities
  • transnational families

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: jay.delosreyes@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Ms Joanna Grace

Research interests

  • People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities
  • Identity
  • Belonging

Mrs Joanne Wright

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: j.m.wright@soton.ac.uk

Address: B34, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr John Woollard PhD, MA(Ed), BSc, PGCE

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Psychology for the classroom
  • Computational thinking
  • Teaching programming

Email: j.woollard@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Mr Julio Carrillo Gonzalez

Research interests

  • Sociology of Professions
  • Professional Identities
  • Interdisciplinary
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