Staff Profile:Professor Cathy Tissot
- Name:
- Dr Cathy Tissot
- Job Title:
- Head of Institute
- Responsibilities:
Update 9 May 2017: Dr Catherine Tissot was promoted to Professor.
University responsibilities:
- BARN (Berkshire Autism Research Group).
Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education:
- Head of the Institute of Education.
- Convenor for MA in Education (Inclusive Education).
- SENCO accreditation / qualification.
- Senior Academic Manager (SAM).
Teaching:
- Masters level-SENCO 1; SENCO 2; SENCO 3.
- Learners with Special Educational Needs.
- Supporting Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
- Areas of Interest:
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Areas of expertise and research interest
- Special education theory and practice.
- Autistic spectrum disorders.
- Inclusive education.
- International perspectives on inclusion.
- Disability issues in general.
Masters and PhD level supervision offered in these areas:
- Special education theory and practice.
- Autistic spectrum disorders.
- Inclusive education.
- International perspectives on inclusion.
- Disability issues in general.
- Current Research Students:
- Manar Alarfaj: Provision for students with autism in Saudi Arabia.
- Najlaa Bajaber: Gifted educational programmes for girls in Saudi Arabia.
- Reem Balubaid: Transition to adulthood for adolescents with autism in Saudi Arabia and the UK.
- Lois Beaver: Using Pupil Voice to Explore and Improve the Experience of Pupils with SEN in a Mainstream Secondary School.
- Sufand Li: Student Teachers' Perspectives of the Impact of Inclusive Education Training on their Teaching Practice.
- Hayley Sae-Kang: Professional Identity, Team Work and School Culture.
- Budor Saigh: Quality of life for children with autism in Saudi Arabia.
Recent Research Students:
- Eileen Hyder: Reading grouups for visually impaired readers completed in 2011.
- Chui Ling Liu: Inclusion in Taiwan.
Current and recent Research Projects:
- 2010-2011: Service Families with children with SEN (with Georgina Lovett).
- 2009-present: SENCOs views on SEN provision.
- 2008-2011: Personalised learning for SEN learners: ensuring ITT staff expertise (£18,000).
- Research groups / Centres:
Member of the Equity, Inclusion and Improvement Research Group.
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 7.
2013
- Tissot, C. (2013) The role of SENCOs as leaders. British Journal of Special Education, 40 (1). pp. 463-474. ISSN 1467-8578 doi: 10.1111/1467-8578.12014
- Hyder, E. and Tissot, C. (2013) ‘That’s definite discrimination’: practice under the umbrella of inclusion. Disability and Society, 28 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 1360-0508 doi: 10.1080/09687599.2012.695579
2012
- Kempe, A. and Tissot, C. (2012) The use of drama to teach social skills in a special school setting for students with autism. Support for Learning, 27 (3). pp. 97-102. ISSN 0268-2141 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9604.2012.01526.x
2011
- Tissot, C. (2011) Working together? Parent and local authority views on the process of obtaining appropriate educational provision for children with autism spectrum disorders. Educational Research, 53 (1). pp. 1-15. ISSN 1469-5847 doi: 10.1080/00131881.2011.552228
2009
- Tissot, C. (2009) Establishing a sexual identity: case studies of learners with autism and learning difficulties. Autism, 13 (6). pp. 551-566. ISSN 1362-3613 doi: 10.1177/1362361309338183
2006
- Tissot, C. A. and Evans, R. (2006) Securing provision for children with autistic spectrum disorders: the views of parents. Perspectives in Education, 24 (1). pp. 73-86. ISSN 0258-2236
2003
- Tissot, C. A. and Evans, R. (2003) Visual teaching strategies for children with autism. Early Child Development and Care, 173 (4). pp. 425-433. ISSN 1476-8275 doi: 10.1080/0300443032000079104
Enterprise activity, external roles and consultancy:
- Paper presentations to the National Autistic Society, Berkshire Autistic Society, Reading Borough Council.
- Led the successful bid to be a provider of the SENCO qualification programme in conjunction with the six Berkshire Local Authorities.
- Presentations to two Local Authorities on Autism.
- Member of the Bracknell Forest Adult Autism group.
- Assistant editor for Early Child Development and Care.
- External Examiner for University of Chester (2008-2011); Leeds Metropolitan (2010-2014).
- Trustee, Prior's Court School.
- Governor, Thames Valley Free School.
- Member of AERA, BERA.
