Staff Profile:Professor Cathy Tissot

Name:

Professor Cathy Tissot

Job Title:

Head of Institute

Responsibilities:

Update 9 May 2017: Dr Catherine Tissot was promoted to Professor.

University responsibilities:

• Senate
• Risk Management Committee
• Staffing Committee
• Senate Arts Committee
• University Teaching Fellow Community of Practice

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
• Learners with Special Educational Needs (EDM 088)

Areas of Interest:

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:

• All topics listed above.

Current Research Students:

• Manar Alarfaj: Provision for students with autism in Saudi Arabia.
• Abdulsalam Alfadhel: Social inclusion for students with hearing impairments in Saudi Arabia
• Sufang Li: Student Teachers' Perspectives of the Impact of Inclusive Education Training on their Teaching Practice.
• Tricia McAfee: Outdoor learning
• Ruth Moyse: Autistic girls missing from education
• Muna Muqaibal: Effectiveness of CALL in Teaching and Learning English Vocabulary: The Case of Oman
• Hayley Sae-Kang: Professional Identity, Team Work and School Culture.

Recent Research Students:

• 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.
• Eileen Hyder: Reading grouups for visually impaired readers completed in 2011.
• Chui Ling Liu: Inclusion in Taiwan.
• Budor Saigh: Quality of life for children with autism in Saudi Arabia.

Current and recent Research Projects:

• 2010-2011: Service Families with children with SEN (with Georgina Lovett).
• 2009-2013: 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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Jump to: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2009 | 2006 | 2003

Number 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

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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.
• Member of the Bracknell Forest Adult Autism group.
• Assistant editor for Early Child Development and Care.
• External Examiner for University of Gloucester (2015-present), University of Chester (2008-2011); Leeds Metropolitan (2010-2014).
• Trustee, Prior's Court School.
• Past Governor, Thames Valley Free School.