Ealing Primary Teaching School Alliance Virtual SEND Conference & Exhibition

Dr Amelia Roberts

Dr Roberts is an Associate Professor at UCL, Deputy Director of UCL Centre for Inclusive Education and UCL Institute of Education’s Vice Dean (Enterprise). Dr Amelia Roberts’ research focuses on knowledge exchange and reflective practice to support teachers of vulnerable pupils and covers inclusive education, Lesson Study, Autism and whole school approaches to Social, Emotional and Mental Health. She is currently part of the research team on ‘Wellbeing and Behaviour: Identifying interventions for positive participation for young people at risk of exclusion in school in order to reduce adverse long term societal impact’. Amelia has worked with the Department for Education on a number of projects, including co-writing two reports for Whole School SEND and is currently an Inclusion Expert for the Standards and Testing Agency. Amelia led on the weekly publication of resources to help schools and families during Covid-19 related school disruption. She has spoken recently on Sky News, BBC South East today and BBC Radio on this and other topics. As part of her UCL role, she regularly visits the Falkland Islands and has worked with UNICEF in the Sultanate of Oman on an ‘Inclusive Classrooms’ project and led on an inclusive education project evaluation in Moldova with JK Rowling’s charity ‘The Lumos Foundation’. In 2019, Amelia spoke in Singapore as part of AWWA’s ‘Inclusion Expert’ Series.

Margaret Mulholland

Margaret is inclusion policy lead for the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) representing 20,000 school leaders. She is a leading advocate for inclusive pedagogy and the role SEND settings play in improving understanding of inclusive teaching and learning in mainstream. A regular advisor to the Department for Education, she sits on the SEND leadership board, and previously on the ITT curriculum and behaviour expert groups. Her teaching and leadership experience spans both mainstream and special settings, including seven years as Director of Development & Research at a leading Special School in London, establishing and leading the Teaching School Alliance, and thirteen years at the Institute of Education, where she was responsible for innovative employment based routes to teaching. This year she co-authored a new ITT resource for nasen and DfE. She is also Project Director for Whole School SEND, an Education Endowment Foundation trial to evaluate the impact of the SEND Review Framework. She is advisor on ITT for the States of Jersey. In 2020 Margaret developed an inclusive teacher training programme for special education in the Punjab on behalf of nasen and the Department for International Development. She is Honorary Norham Fellow at the University of Oxford, member of the UCET executive committee and writes a monthly column on research and inclusivity for TES Magazine. Twitter @MargaretMulhol2