Professor Graeme Douglas

School of Education
Professor of Disability and Special Educational Needs
Co-director VICTAR

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6736
Email: g.g.a.douglas@bham.ac.uk

Address: School of Education
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Graeme is Professor of Disability and Special Educational Needs in the School of Education, University 麻豆精选. He was the head of the Disability Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN) department (2015-2020). DISN is the largest department of its kind in the UK and comprises over 25 academics researching and studying in the field of inclusion, SEN and disability. He is also the co-director of the Vision Impairment Centre for Teaching and Research (VICTAR).

Qualifications

PhD
BSc.(Hons)

Teaching

Graeme’s main teaching activities are in the area of research methods training for research students. He contributes to College of Social Science (CoSS) Postgraduate Research Training. His teaching particularly focuses upon methods of data collection and analysis and research design, as well as a particular interest in researching disability. He also supervises masters and doctoral research students working in the area of vision impairment in particular, and disability and SEN in general.

Postgraduate supervision

Graeme Douglas has broad research interests in the social and educational inclusion of people with vision impairment. This specifically includes: the views and circumstances of people with vision impairment; education and vision impairment; various aspects of reading/information access and vision impairment; and research methods. Central to his work is a commitment to representing disabled people鈥檚 views and opinions.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

McLinden, M, Douglas, G, Hewett, R, Cobb, R, Keil, S, Lynch, P, Roe, J & Stewart Thistlethwaite, J 2022, . Routledge. <>

Article

Hewett, R, Douglas, G, McLinden, M & James, L 2023, '', British Journal of Visual Impairment, pp. 1-17.

Layachi, A, Douglas, G & Reraki, M 2023, '', Educational Psychology in Practice, pp. 1-24.

Akbayrak, K & Douglas, G 2021, '', European Journal of Special Needs Education.

Hewett, R, Douglas, G & McLinden, M 2021, '', Educational Review.

Frank, H, McLinden, M & Douglas, G 2020, '', Nurse Education in Practice, vol. 42, 102620.

Dobson, G & Douglas, G 2020, '', British Educational Research Journal, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 1256-1278.

McLinden, M, Ravenscroft, J, Douglas, G, Hewett, R, McCann, E & Roe, J 2020, '', British Journal of Visual Impairment, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 1-7.

Dobson, G & Douglas, G 2020, '', Educational Review, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 298-318.

Chapter

McLinden, M, Douglas, G, Terlektsi, E & Hewett, R 2022, . in A Holliman & K Sheehy (eds), Overcoming adversity in education. 1st edn, Routledge, London, pp. 41-53.

Commissioned report

Hewett, R, Douglas, G & Ellis, L 2022, . RNIB. <>

Terlektsi, E, Wootten, A, Douglas, G, Ellis, L, Hewett, R, Hodges, E, McLinden, M, Ware, J & Williams, L 2019, . Welsh Assembly Government. <>

Hodges, E, Ellis, L, Douglas, G, Hewett, R, McLinden, M, Terlektsi, E, Wootten, A, Ware, J & Williams, L 2019, . Welsh Assembly Government. <>

Douglas, G, McLinden, M, Ellis, L, Hewett, R, Hodges, E, Terlektsi, E, Wootten, A, Ware, J & Williams, L 2019, . Welsh Assembly Government. <>