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Biography

Name:

• Julie Allan

 

Nationality:

• British

 

Recent Positions:         

• Professor of Education, University of Stirling       
• Research Officer, Scottish Council for Research in Education                                                 
• Convenor, Schools and Social Capital Network, Scotland

 

Areas and Length of Expertise:

• Social Capital development, particularly in schools and communities. 15 years
• Social Inclusion. Developing and strengthening inclusion policy and practice
• Teacher Training

 

Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:

• The Scottish Parliament: Adviser on Inquiry into special educational needs and legislation
• The Welsh Assembly: Gave evidence to Review of special education
• The Queensland Government: Consultant on inclusion
• Clackmannanshire: Gave evidence to Review of education 

 

Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:

• B.Ed (CNAA) and teaching qualification; PhD (Stirling) 

 

Selected Publications:

• Allan, J (2006) The repetition of exclusion. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 10 (02/03) pp121-133.
• Allan, J  (2006) Failing to make progress? The aporias of responsible inclusion in E Brantlinger (Ed) Who benefits from special education? Remediating (fixing) other people’s children. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• Allan, J (2005) Inclusion as an ethical project in S Tremain (ed) Foucault and Disability. Michegan: University of Michegan Press.
• Allan, J (2005) Inclusive practice: learning from children in M Nind, J Rix, K Sheehy and K Simmons, Katy (eds) Curriculum and pedagogy in inclusive education. London: RoutledgeFalmer
• Allan, J, I’Anson, Priestley, A and Fisher, A (2005) Promising Rights: Introducing children’s rights in school. Edinburgh: Save the Children.
• Doughty, H and Allan, J (2005) Staff development for inclusion. Report to Scottish Further Education Unit.

History

Member for

2 years 25 weeks