Dr Ines Alves
- Senior Lecturer (Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy)
telephone:
0141 330 1949
email:
Ines.Alves@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Inclusive Education and the Programme Leader for the MEd in Inclusive Education. I am also the Post-Graduate Research Deputy Director at the School of Education of the University of Glasgow.
Prior to coming to Glasgow, I have worked as a National Project Coordinator of the EDiTE Project (European Doctorate in Teacher Education), and as a consultant collaborating with schools in disadvantaged areas within a Portuguese Ministry of Education area-based intervention (TEIP).
Qualifications:
- PhD in Education, The University of Manchester, UK
- MA in Special Education (Inclusion and Disability Studies), Institute of Education, London, UK
- MA in Language, Ethnicity and Education from King’s College London, UK
- Qualified primary and lower secondary (Portuguese and French) teacher, Escola Superior de Educação, Lisbon, Portugal
Research interests
I am interested in:
- Inclusive education
- Equity and social justice
- Human Rights and disability
- Autism Spectrum
- Conceptualisations of diversity and difference within educational settings
- Comparative research in education
Grants
- Co-National Coordinator on the Walk the Global Walk Project (2019-2021)
- PhD Fellowship (Fundacao Ciencia e Tecnologia) 2010-2014
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow/ Early Stage Researcher in the MURINET Project 2007-2010 Working with the Italian Consiglio Nazionale sulla Disabilita, focusing on the Human Rights approach to disability
Supervision
- Cardenas Alarcon, Constanza Andrea
Curriculum circles: a proposal for curriculum making in Chile - Nouraldeen, Munther
Refugee education in the UK: The case of Syrian children in Glasgow
- Yinshu Zhu, PhD, Teachers' perspectives on improving educational inclusion through the performing arts: A qualitative study of primary schools in Shenzhen
- Lisa Fernandes, EdD, Student-teachers’ perceptions, experiences, and attitudes towards inclusion with particular respect to autism
Teaching
- Practitioner Enquiry: Developing Inclusive Pedagogies
- MEd in Inclusive Education Dissertation
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Education/ The Evolving Concept of Inclusion
- Inclusive Classrooms, Inclusive Pedagogies
- Coursera: Diversity and Inclusion in Education (Coursera, Online Open Course)
Professional activities & recognition
Research fellowships
- 2007 - 2010: Marie Curie Early Career Researcher (MSCA/ FP6 ITN)
Grant committees & research advisory boards
- 2019: Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK - Adviser
Professional & learned societies
- 2011: Full Member, British Educational Research Association
- 2011: Full Member, Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências de Educação