📢 WERA IRN Online Seminar
🎙 Vivienne Kachollom Rwang (University of Southampton)
📚 Voice, Belonging & Inclusion: What Displaced Children Tell Us About Schooling in Crisis Contexts
🗓 1 April 2026
⏰ 4–5pm UK / 5–6pm CET
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I am delighted to share the wonderful news that my PhD student Anastasia Voulagka successfully passed her PhD viva today at the @uoseducation.bsky.social , @cri-uos.bsky.social
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🏳️🌈 New episode out now - Episode 8 of Speaking of Research from @scdtp.bsky.social
We meet Ramon Almeida (University of Southampton), whose research exposes ongoing violence against LGBTQ+ people in Brazil, even after laws criminalised homophobia and transphobia.
🎉𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲!
We are thrilled to share that Dr Achala Gupta has been awarded the 2025 Professor M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize by the Indian Sociological Society.
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And here we go with another great podcast from @scdtp.bsky.social
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#COVID19 #Education #GlobalPerspectives #LearningDisruption
Dr Cristina Azaola’s @mcazaola.bsky.social new book ‘Global Perspectives on Recovery from Learning Disruption’ is published next week.
This book explores the educational responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: the devastating effects and the experiences of recovery.
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After three years in the making, I am very happy to announce that my new book Global Perspectives on Recovery from Learning Disruption. Educational Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic will be out on January 22. Thanks @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
'The increasing call for more special schools should be understood not as clear evidence of their necessity, but as a symptom of a wider system failure: our ongoing inability to educate students with more complex needs effectively in mainstream schools'
schoolsweek.co.uk/given-the-ch...
In this article, I reflect on the recent policy shift away from planned special schools towards specialist facilities in mainstream. I argue that expanding inclusive practice, supported by well-resourced specialist provision, should be central to policy and practice
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New paper from Prof Kiki Messiou and Inmaculada Orozco: ‘Student voices for the advancement of inclusive education: Collective actions through research in Spain and England’.
revistainclusiva.ucentral.cl/revistainclu...
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#InclusiveEducation
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Happy New Year from everyone at the University of Southampton! ✨
Whether you’re studying, researching, teaching or supporting our University, we can’t wait to see what 2026 brings.
Excited to be one of the speakers at an upcoming Whole School SEND webinar. I’ll be sharing research & practical strategies on how resourced provisions can become inclusive services. www.wholeschoolsend.org.uk/events?utm_s...
🗓️ 17 Oct 14:00–15:30
#SEND #Inclusion #AdditionalProvision #TeacherCPD
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The findings offer new perspectives and conceptual tools for both research and practice, contributing to strategies for integrating inclusion into everyday teaching for all students.
#universityofsouthampton #InterwovenInclusiveTeaching #studentperspective
While social prejudice and inaccessibility may restrict students in everyday life, didactics - rooted in the continental tradition - can contribute to the creation of artificial inclusive spaces within teaching, allowing students to transcend taken-for-granted assumptions and become in new ways.
Teachers can be understood as didactic subjects who, through their presence and interaction, become part of both the didactic content and method, aiming to foster inclusion. Although inclusive education is seldom connected to didactics, the study argues that didactics are needed to enable inclusion.
Drawing on phenomenological research involving more than 600 high school students, the study identifies three overlapping didactic dimensions: didactic persona, didactic alliance, and didactic action. Together, these dimensions form what is described as Interwoven inclusive teaching (IIT).
The seminar presents a study exploring how high school students experience teachers' inclusive teaching, with a focus on how inclusion is enacted in everyday classroom practice.
Join us for our first online seminar by Lotta Björkman.
Interwoven Inclusive Teaching (IIT): From a student perspective and with a continental, didactic approach.
🗓 Tuesday 11th November, 17:00 (CET) / 16:00 (GMT)
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Meeting ID: 349 052 476 000 0
Passcode: vX9a8pw9
#WERA #IIT
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New publication 📢
'Inclusive Journeys:
Addressing Marginalisation in Schools' by Prof Kyriaki (Kiki) Messiou.
Kiki draws on her involvement in a series of international development and research projects over 30 years to propose a new way of thinking about inclusive education.
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Great day discussing our research at #LICIE2025 with @melnind.bsky.social @ucl-ioe-cie.bsky.social @scdtp.bsky.social @cri-uos.bsky.social
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Spoke at the Westminster Education Forum Policy Conference. Shared ways to strengthen #inclusion via #resourcedprovisions (RPs) & #specialistunits (SUs): national guidance to define them as inclusive; a unified ‘RP Inclusive Service’ model; in-school multi-agency teams; school-based EHCPs.
We're delighted that the School Voices Research-Practice Partnership work, led by Prof Kiki Messiou, has been featured in the Daily Echo.
You can read the full article here: www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2529658...
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We’re proud to share a new video from PPS featuring Dr. Vasilis Strogilos’ research on resourced provision for students with disabilities.
The project shows how inclusive approaches can benefit the whole school & includes a practical toolkit.
From research to real world impact.
CRI member and co-lead, @achalagupta.bsky.social's research - 'Gaining Advantage in the Shadow Education Economy’ - has been featured in the latest @unisouthampton.bsky.social Re:action magazine.
It focuses on ‘Shadow Education’ in India.
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We’re delighted to see the hard work of our amazing colleagues and students recognised with a World Top 100 position in this year’s QS World University Rankings 🎉
The rankings position us 87th in the world and 14th in the UK.
See more 👉 https://tr.ee/IVjgDx
More and more great news coming from Dr @vstrogilos.bsky.social Congratulations!