Panel discussion on conducting EDR and best practices

Dr Saba Hussain is Associate Professor of Education and Programme Director of the MA Education at the University of Birmingham. A feminist sociologist and author of Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India, her work develops Third World feminist perspectives to better articulate the experiences of women and girls in non-Western contexts, who are too often imagined as passive actors. Saba’s current research focuses on youth political education and activism, with a particular interest in educational responses to reactionary politics. 

Dr Barbara Sandland is a Research fellow in the Autism Centre for Education and Research at the University of Birmingham. As a neurodivergent individual, parent to neurodivergent children/young adults, an experienced Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator and scholar with an autism specialism, she brings a rare multidimensional perspective that unifies lived experience, professional practice and academic research. Barbara’s research crosses the life span, with her most recent work including Socially Assistive Robots and autistic children in the early years, Support mechanisms for neurodivergent Post Graduate Researchers in higher education, and experiences of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria in adulthood.

Dr Laura Stevens is a research fellow at the Institute for Social Justice and Crime at the University of Suffolk, where she is involved in various multidisciplinary projects. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham and in collaboration with the Wangu Kanja Foundation, where she investigated innovative methods of documenting memory evidence for sexual and gender-based violence (i.e., mobile phone apps and websites), and training non-police first responders to use evidence-based interviewing skills.