Profile of Alan Dyson
I am Professor of Education in the University of Manchester where I co-direct the Centre for Equity in Education (with Mel Ainscow) and lead work on education in urban contexts. I was formerly Professor of Special Needs Education and Director of the Special Needs Research Centre at the University of Newcastle. I have worked in universities since 1988. Prior to that, I spent 13 years as a teacher, mainly in urban comprehensive schools.
Research and teaching interests:
My research and teaching interests are in the relationship between social and educational inclusion and, particularly, in the relationship between education and other areas of public policy in urban contexts. I have undertaken a great deal of funded research sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, government departments, LEAs and other public bodies. I am currently leading the national evaluation of full-service extended schools and a study of school governing bodies in disadvantaged areas. I am also working on a review of the research evidence on the relationship between poverty and education. I have been a member of the government's ministerial working group on Special Educational Needs, and of the National Education Research Forum, as well as working with a range of government and government agency task groups.
International experience
I have worked extensively with teachers, policy-makers and researchers in a range of countries, including Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain and Sweden. In 2001, I co-ordinated the production of the Open File on Inclusive Education for UNESCO.
Authored books
- Ainscow, M., T Booth, Dyson, A. Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion. Edited by Editor?, X. , in press, London: Routledge, 2006. eScholarID:4b1019
- Dyson, D., D Crowther, C Cummings, A Millward. Schools and Area Regeneration. The Policy Press, 2003. eScholarID:4b146
- Ainscow, M., Chapman, C., Dyson, A., Gunter, H., Hall, D., Kerr, K., et al. Insight 2: Social inequality: Can schools narrow the gap?. Macclesfield: BERA, eScholarID:147339
- More http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/d.a.dyson/publications
