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When Inclusion Feels Like More Than a Word: My Visit to Stoke Primary School
Lucie Wheeler is the Founder of RECAP and a Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University. I visit and work with lots of different education settings, and one of the things I am always interested in is what a school feels like. Yes we know that policies are important, and the curriculum a school provides is key and the way they do their provision is huge. But there are some things that are much harder to capture on paper: the interactions in the corridors, the relationships bet

Lucie Wheeler
4 days ago6 min read


RECAP Guest Blog: SEND, diagnosis, and the “overdiagnosis” debate
Dr Kim Collett holds a PhD in Education and is an Associate Lecturer, researcher and advocate specialising in inclusive education and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Her passion for inclusion comes from her own experiences of being a child with a label of SEND and from navigating life as a neurodivergent and disabled parent in a neurodiverse household. Kim has worked in universities for over 15 years after her early career saw her working in the charity sec

Lucie Wheeler
Jun 245 min read


Research Spotlight: Embedding Outdoor Learning (OL) into Special School Culture- The Case Of SEND Primary Schools in England.
Shingi Kandi Shingi is a PhD student conducting research on embedding outdoor learning in special schools for pupils with complex,...

Lucie Wheeler
Apr 1, 20254 min read
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