Professor Melanie Nind, BEd PhD

Professor Melanie Nind, BEd PhD

Administrative responsibilityDeputy Head of School (Research)
Office phone+44 (0)23 8059 5813
Internal extension25813
EmailM.A.Nind@soton.ac.uk
Room number32/2057

 | Expertise | Biography | SOE Research Centre Membership | Principal Publications | Funded Research | 

Expertise

Action research
Autism
Emotional well-being
Ethics and politics of research
Inclusion
Inclusive Learning & Teaching Environments
Inclusive Pedagogy
Inclusive Research
Interactive Pedagogy
Learning Difficulties
Mental health
Physical Education and Sport Education
Special Educational Needs

Biography

Melanie Nind is Deputy Head of School for Research and a Professor of Education at the University of Southampton. Her particular areas of interest and expertise lie in the fields of interactive and inclusive pedagogy. She 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 and as a senior lecturer in special education at Oxford Brookes University. More recently she worked at The Open University developing and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate distance learning courses in inclusive education and convening the Educational and Social Inclusion research group.

Melanie maintains a keen interest in inclusion and gender, sexuality and disability rights issues within a broad social justice framework. She is reviews editor for the International Journal of Research and Method in Education and on the international advisory board for the Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs. Her current interests focus on issues of access for people with learning difficulties and the experiences of young children moving between inclusive and special early years settings, and curricula for girls at risk of exclusion from school.

SOE Research Centre Membership

Principal Publications

Significant Publications
1. Nind, M. (2006) "Conducting systematic review in education: a reflexive narrative", London Review of Education, 4(2), 2006, pp. 183-95.
2. Nind, M. & Wearmouth, J. (2006) Including children with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms: implications for pedagogy from a systematic review, Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 6(3), 2006, pp. 1-9.
3. Nind, M., Benjamin, S. et al. (2004) Methodological challenges in researching inclusive education, Educational Review. 56(3), 2004, pp.259-70.
4. Nind, M. & Kellett, M. (2002) ‘Responding to individuals with severe learning difficulties and stereotyped behaviour: challenges for an inclusive era’, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 17(3), pp. 265-282.
Books
5. Rolph, S., Atkinson, D., Nind, M., and Welshman, J., (eds.) (2005) Witnesses to change: Families, learning difficulties and history, Kidderminster, UK, British Institute of Learning Disabilities, 335pp.

Funded Research