Institute of Education London

Dr Dawn Male

• Qualifications and position:
  • PhD
  • Senior Lecturer in the Education and Psychology of Children with SEN
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Policy and Society
• Department:
  • Department of Psychology and Human Development
• Summary:
  • I have a particular interest in children and young people with moderate/severe/profound and multiple learning difficulties. I am a Chartered Psychologist and a Chartered Scientist. Previously I was an Educational Psychologist and a teacher in mainstream and special schools and colleges of further education.
• Teaching:
  • Masters in Special and Inclusive Education: Module Leader: Concepts and Contexts of Special and Inclusive Education; Psychology for Special Needs; Leadership and Management in Special Education.
    Graduate Diploma in Special and Inclusive Education: Challenging Behaviour and Children/Young People with Severe/ Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties.
    Foundation Degree: Teaching Children/Young People with Complex Needs
    Doctorate in Professional Educational, Child & Adolescent Psychology: Working with Children/Young People with Severe/Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties.
• Research Projects:
  • 1) SENCOs perceptions of their work situation.
    2) The employment of mnemonic strategies by children with moderate learning difficulties.
    3) Pupil populations of SLD schools.
• Postgraduate Research:
  • Research interests: policy and provision for children/young people with severe/profound and multiple learning difficulties; the employment of mnemonic strategies by children/young people with moderate learning difficulties; stress and teachers of children/young people with SEN; challenging behaviour and pupils with SLD; SENCOs' workload, job satisfaction and stress; friendships and peer relations among children/young people with severe learning difficulties.
    Post graduate researchers:
    1) Rachel Kipling: Transition and pupils with ASD.
    2) Wendy Penton: Social stories and pupils with ASD.
    3) Sarah Moseley: Teaching reading to pupils with SLD.
    4) Nagi Baldo: Inclusion of pupils with SEN in Sudan.
    5) Daisy Loyd: Drama education and pupils with ASD.
    5) Julie Newman: Inclusion of pupils with ASD.
• Professional Activities:
  • Previous/present professional activities:
    Winston Churchill Travelling Fellow (Inclusion of pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties); Editor: The SLD Experience; Author: 'Recent Research' column - The SLD Experience; QAA Subject Reviewer; Editorial Board: Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities.
• Conferences/presentations:
  • 1) Teachers' Perceptions of Challenging Behaviour. International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (Seattle, 2000).
    2) Peer Nominations Among Adolescents Experiencing Severe Learning Difficulties. Inaugural Conference of IASSID Europe (Dublin, 2002).
    3) Peer Nominations of Students with Severe Intellectual Disabilities. International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (Montpellier, 2004).