Anthony Maher

Dr Anthony J. Maher is Director of Research and Professor of Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Anthony’s research, consultancy, and teaching expertise relate to centring the experiences and amplifying the voices of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. This is part of his commitment to trying to empower pupils with SEND, placing them at the centre of decisions that impact their lives, and recognising that they have expert knowledge because of their lived, embodied experiences.