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Helen Knowler is an Associate Professor, based in UCL’s Arena Centre for Research Based Education. She leads the Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP) which focuses on developing the educational outcomes of UCL's Eugenics Inquiry Report. She collaborates with colleagues across UCL's 11 faculties to explore the ways that UCL’s eugenics history and resources can be incorporated into different disciplinary contexts.
A BBC news article from March 2024 highlights that local authority spending on school travel for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has increased from £728m in 2018 to...
Continue reading blog postAs the school year in England begins once again against an evolving Covid-19 backdrop, we ask what this latest set of circumstances means for issues of inclusion, including which students will...
Continue reading blog postIn a newly published study (Done & Knowler, 2021a) we investigated the strategic leadership role of special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) in planning for Covid-19 with particular...
Continue reading blog postThis report asks whether and how special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) participated in Covid-19-induced school planning for lockdown, provision for vulnerable pupils and full school...
Disproportionality (the overrepresentation of specific social groups) in school exclusion data is well documented (DfE, 2019). Similarly, time and funding pressures faced by special educational...
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