Special Educational Needs and Inclusion MA Welcome Pack
Welcome to Special Educational Needs and Inclusion MA – September 2026.
Welcome, and congratulations on taking this step toward advancing your skills and impact. Whether you are a teacher, a specialist practitioner, a health or social care professional, or someone working across those boundaries, you have chosen a course that values your expertise and empowers you to develop it further.
The MA Special Educational Needs and Inclusion is built on the premise that inclusive practice is not a set of techniques to be applied, but a way of thinking to be developed. Across your studies, you will be invited to question assumptions, including your own, about disability, behaviour, and wellbeing. You will engage with current research and policy, while continually considering how your learning applies to your professional context.
You will study alongside practitioners from education, health and social care, and that diversity of experience is one of the programme’s greatest assets. Sessions are delivered in person with some online elements, providing the benefits of community and discussion while offering flexibility around your professional commitments.
Assessment across the programme is varied, designed to develop the kinds of skills that matter in employment: critical writing, reflective practice, leadership thinking, and applied research. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, you will find that different modules play to different strengths, and the assessments you complete are ones you can draw on directly in your career.
We are delighted to have you with us. You are now part of a community of people who care deeply about inclusion.
Your Course Leader
Tereza Aidonopoulou-Read
Senior Lecturer in Education (SEN and Inclusion)
Tereza.aidonopoulou@northampton.ac.uk
Additional staff
- Dr Julian Brown
- Dr Alexia Achtypi
- Dr Cristina Devecchi
- Mrs Abbie Deeming
- Ms Korrin Smith-Whitehouse
- Dr Brenna Farrow
Welcome and Induction
In preparation for your course starting in September, we hold an online session so you can meet your Academic Team and other students studying the same course. This will be held on Wednesday, 23 September. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Tereza: tereza.aidonopoulou@northampton.ac.uk.
Wednesday 23 September
Session: An Introduction to the MA SEN and Inclusion
- Time: 10 – 11am (BST)
- Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/396079280529338?p=23fBlmkZBBpMLflvPc
Please email Tereza tereza.aidonopoulou@northampton.ac.uk
to introduce yourself before the event. Knowing who we will be expecting and how many of you might join us will help us plan.
Monday 28 September
Session: Welcome to the MA SEN and Inclusion
- Time: 4 – 5pm (BST)
- Location: LH123, Learning Hub, Waterside campus
Please email Tereza (email address: tereza.aidonopoulou@northampton.ac.uk) to introduce yourself before the event. Knowing who we will be expecting and how many of you might join us will help us plan.
Thursday 15 October
Session: Delayed Arrival Welcome Session
- Time: 1 – 2:30pm (BST)
- Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/395482897959991?p=xpDuUxTFde9X6lk3TS
This is a session for those students that had a delayed arrival to the course to help introduce them to the university teams and familiarise them with our processes.
Please email Tereza (email address: tereza.aidonopoulou@northampton.ac.uk) to introduce yourself before the event. Knowing who we will be expecting and how many of you might join us will help us plan.
