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Personal Statement
Jane has over 30 years of experience of teaching in Secondary and Primary schools. She also worked as Care Manager for a children's charity supporting children experiencing disability and their families. Jane has a degree in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art. Her passion for the arts are very present in her work on Inclusive Education.
Jane current teaching leadership involves
Programme Leader: Post Graduate Certificate In Inclusive Education.
Module Lead: BA Childhood Practice Pahse 2 Deficit to Strengths-based Working in Multiprofessional Teams
Module Co-Lead: BA Joint Honours Year 1 (Education) 'Placement Learning: Children's Health and Well-Being In the Community'
Module Co-Lead: BA Joint Honours Year 2 (Education-Interdisciplinary Learning) 'Globally Connected Communities: An Arts-Based Approach to celebrating inclusion, culture, language and identity through multimodal literacy practicies'
Module Co-Lead: BA Primary Education Year 4 Inclusion through the Lens of Additional Support Needs
Jane has extensive experience in delivering CLPL across the education sector on Inclusion and Additional Support Needs as well as creativity and the visual arts. These sessions adopt a partcipatory approach and take a strengths-based veiw of children, families, communities, and our own capicities to better understand our own practices and conetxts.
She is a co-investigator for the AHRC research funder project Sustainable Designs For Learning and Living: Embedding Multilingualism in Learning for Sustainability. As part of this work she has completed 'Introduction to Permaculture' with Permaculture Scotland.
Keywords
- inclusion, additional support needs, inclusive practice, inclusive pedagogy
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning (SDLL): Embedding Multilingualism into Learning for Sustainability
Mackay, F. (Principal Investigator) & Catlin, J. (Co-investigator)
AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council)
7/05/25 → 6/05/28
Project: Research
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SDLL: Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning (SDLL): Embedding Multilingualism into Learning for Sustainability AHRC total fund £1,269,859-Starthclyde: £194,413
Catlin, J. (Research Co-investigator), Faulds, K. (Research Co-investigator), Mackay, F. (Principal Investigator), Hirsu, L. (Principal Investigator), Futro, D. (Research Co-investigator) & Aksu, P. (Research Co-investigator)
7/05/25 → 5/05/28
Project: Non-funded project
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Embracing materiality as a core element of Arctic pedagogy
Carsten Conner, L., Essex, J., Teal Sullivan, P. & Catlin, J., 19 Dec 2023, In: Education in the North. 30, 2, 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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National Framework for Inclusion
The Scottish Universities Inclusion Group, Alves, I., Barrett, L., Barnett, H., Cantali, D., Catlin, J., Darling-McQuistan, K., Dey, D., Essex, J., Florian, L., Foley, Y., Graham, A., Jaap, A., Jones, S., Watson, K. L., McAuliffe, L., McGill, C., Mercieca, D., Munro, A. & Mouroutsou, S. & 3 others, , 15 Jun 2022, 3rd ed. Aberdeen. 16 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Prizes
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Strathclyde Living Lab: Cocreating better lives (Public Engagement Impact Award, 2024)
Catlin, J. (Recipient) & Faulds, K. (Recipient), 13 Nov 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Tak tent ó sma things – Coming together through relational curiosity to change hearts and minds for inclusive education in the early years
Mevawalla, Z. (Invited speaker), Cologon, K. (Speaker), Catlin, J. (Contributor), Fulton, J. (Contributor) & Harper-Abdullah, M. (Contributor)
16 Jul 2026Activity: Talk or Presentation › Invited talk
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Embodied Experiences of Memories and Languages Through Plants: A Creative Exploration at the UNESCO RILA Spring School 2026
Catlin, J. (Contributor) & Aksu, P. (Contributor)
12 Jun 2026Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation