I am a visiting professor at the Department of Education and a professor of equity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Julie Allan is Professor of Equity and Inclusion at the University of Birmingham, UK where she was formerly Head of the School of Education. Julie’s research focuses on inclusion, disability studies and children’s rights and encompasses both empirical and theoretical work. She has been an expert adviser on policy, practice and research to Scottish, Welsh, Dutch and Queensland, Australia governments, NGOs and Council of Europe. Julie is the author/editor of several books, including Students, teachers, families and a socially just education: Rewriting the grammar of schooling to unsettle identities (2023, with Francesca Peruzzo); On the self: Discourses of mental health and education (2022, with Valerie Harwood); and The Routledge World Yearbook in Education: Schooling, governance and inequalities. London: Routledge (2020, with Valerie Harwood and Clara Joergensen).
Julie is an Honorary Network Member of the European Educational Research Association (EERA).