| Activity | Date of Birth: 14 November 1931
Education and qualifications:
1950-1953 Cambridge University, MA
1955-1958 University of Bristol PhD
Professional Career:
1953-1955 National Service (2nd Lieutenant/Lieutenant; 6th Royal Tank Regiment).
1955-1958 University of Bristol demonstrator, Department of Psychology.
1958-1960 Research Psychologist, South West Regional Hospital Board, Barrow Gurney Psychiatric Hospital.
1960-1964 Educational Psychologist (City of Bristol)
1964-1965 Senior Psychologist, City of Hull. Responsible for Child Guidance and School Psychological services.
1965-1979 Birmingham University- lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader
1979-1995 London University, Institute of Education, First holder: Chair in Education and Psychology (Children with Special Educational Needs).
1995- Retired - Appointed Emeritus Professor, Institute of Education.
Other activities:
1976 Elected Chairman, Division of Educational Psychologists (DECP), British Psychological Society.
Continuing: Member or chair of various Universities' SEN research project steering groups: Institute of Education; Universities of Warwick, Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter.
1995 (continuing) member: steering group SEND Policy Options Group
1995 - 2014 Chair: SENCo Forum Advisory Group (BECTA then DFE) - then continuing as member.
1995-1997 Voluntary learning support assistant, Longtown Community Primary School.
1996 onwards: Herefordshire Council:
Member: various Council Special Educational Needs working groups.
1997- 2005 (approx.) Longtown School: Chair of Governors - later continuing as associate governor for special educational needs to 2016 onwards.
1998-2016 onwards: start of 'Points from the SENCo Forum' quarterly regular column in British Journal of Special Education.
1997-2007 (approx)Visiting academic, University of Birmingham School of Education.
1997--2001(approx.)British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA): Chair, Special Education Expert Reference Group.
1998 Convenor: Herefordshire Consortium of Special Educational Needs Parent Organisations.
1999-2004 Chair, Herefordshire Education Action Zone
2000 International Special Educational Needs Conference (contributor)
2004-2012 Chair, Herefordshire Early Years Forum.
2008 Evidence to House of Commons Childrens, Schools and Families Select Committee: Sure Start Children's Centres.
2010 Learning and Technology World Forum (contributor).
Honours and awards:
Commander of the British Empire (CBE), HM Government, 1993?
Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, no date.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre
Sources: Klaus Wedell's CV |
| PublishedWorks | Selected publications:
Putting inclusion into practice 2 Klaus Wedell, British Journal of Special Education , vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 55-56, 2009
Can test scores answer SENCos' questions? Klaus Wedell, British Journal of Special Education , vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 222-222, 2009
Confusion about inclusion: patching up or system change? Klaus Wedell: British Journal of Special Education , vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 127-135, 2008
Policies and real life Klaus Wedell: British Journal of Special Education , vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 117-118, 2008
Seeing each other's points of view – SENCos and parents Klaus Wedell: British Journal of Special Education , vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 57-58, 2008
Music lessons and inclusion Klaus Wedell: British Journal of Special Education , vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 181-181, 2008
Ten years of ‘Points from the SENCo-Forum’ Klaus Wedell: British Journal of Special Education , vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 247-247, 2008
Points for the SENCo-Forum Klaus Wedell, Chris Stevens, Terry Waller: British Journal of Special Education , vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 243-243, 2007
Points from the SENCo-Forum.: SENCos' role in implementing inclusion policy Klaus Wedell: British Journal of Special Education , vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 220-220, 2006
Dilemmas in the quest for inclusion Klaus Wedell: British Journal of Special Education , vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 3-11, 2005
Concepts of special educational need Klaus Wedell: Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs , vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 104-108, 2003
Points from the SENCo-Forum Klaus Wedell, Chris Stevens, Terry Waller, Lydia Matheson: British Journal of Special Education , vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 41-42, 1998
Putting the Code of Practice into Practice: Meeting Special Educational Needs in the School and Classroom Paperback, Klaus Wedell, K. Wedell, IoE London, 1998
SENCos Sharing Questions and Solutions: How to Make a More Convenient Phone Call Klaus Wedell, Chris Stevens, Terry Waller, Lydia Matheson: British Journal of Special Education , vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 167-170, 1997 |