Dr Charmaine Agius Ferrante

Charmaine Agius Ferrante, Ph.D, Assistant professor in Education, Children and Young People, Northumbria University.

She is currently Head  of Education for Programmes in the Department of Social work, Education and Community Wellbeing. She is Senior teaching Fellow HEA and the Programme Lead for MA & BA Childhood and Early Years Studies. She is also a consultant Developmental Educationist and has advised policy around inclusive education in Malta where she was involved in supporting the development and provision of inclusive practice. 

She is a visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta. Her research interests are the politics, policy and practices of inclusive education with respect to the education of disabled children. Her research themes include developmental education, early intervention, early years teaching and learning, creating spaces and places for all children, sexuality and relationships in young disabled people, the relationship between disability theory and the local and global disability movements together with the possible connections between inclusive education and disability studies.

She is a committed advocate for inclusive education, assisting parents, individuals, schools and communities to work towards building inclusive communities of Practice.