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Rob Webster researches and writes on special educational needs, inclusion and the role of teaching assistants. He led the development of the Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants programme, which has been accessed by thousands of UK schools, and won the 2019 British Educational Research Association Public Engagement and Impact Award. Rob is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Greenwich, and joint co-ordinator of the SEN Policy Research Network. His latest book, The Inclusion Illusion, is free to download via UCL Press.
Despite the growing number of teaching assistants (TAs) in schools worldwide, comparative international research on their professional lives and roles remains limited. Most are small-scale...
Continue reading blog postEngland is running out of teachers. Excessive workload, bureaucratic demands and inadequate systems of support have driven down rates of job satisfaction, and with it, rates of teacher recruitment...
Continue reading blog postThe international drive towards the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) in mainstream schools has become contingent on the creation and utilisation of a paraprofessional...
Continue reading blog postThe British Educational Research Association Public Engagement & Impact Award recognises the important impact of research and practice in the education community and celebrates significant...
