Network conveners: Liya Kalinnikova Magnusson, Riikka Sirkko and Edda Óskarsdóttir
Liya Kalinnikova Magnusson
Liya Kalinnikova Magnusson
Associate professor in education; PhD in special education
Guest researcher at the Institute of Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES), Uppsala University, Sweden;
liya.kalinnikova@ires.uu.se
Liya Kalinnikova Magnusson: a senior lecturer in special needs education [SNE], responsible for the SNE subject in the Faculty of Education and Business Studies at the University of Gävle, Sweden; graduated as a special teacher and speech therapist from the faculty of defectology at Irkutsk Teacher Training Institute of Russia; defended her PhD dissertation in SNE at the Research Institute of Defectology at the Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Moscow; affiliated researcher of the Institute of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University; she is a docent in psychology (according to the Russian research academic grades). International experience includes research and teaching activities mainly in Eastern European countries, which was granted by prestigious Swedish (VR, STINT, Linnaeus Palme, SI), Nordic, Russian Academic Funds. Scientific interests lie in the field of development of SNE towards inclusion and how this developmental process is contextualised by political choices in educational reforms internationally; comparative studies; dynamics of change of SNE targets, etc.
Riikka Sirkko
University Lecturer of special education, PhD, Docent of Education
University of Oulu
Finland
riikka.sirkko@oulu.fi
Riikka Sirkko works as a university lecturer of special education at the University of Oulu, Finland. Riikka’s research interest deals with inclusion and inclusive education at all school levels, from preschool to higher education. Riikka has also researched special education teachers and school assistants’ work.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5794-3665
Edda Óskarsdóttir
Professor, EdD
University of Iceland
Edda completed an MA degree in special needs education at the University of Oregon and an EdD from University of Iceland. She has 20 years of experience as a special needs educator and coordinator for support in compulsory schools. She also has experience as a project assistant at the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education. Her research field covers inclusive education and in that context teacher education, teacher development, policy and practice that supports education for all.