Melissa Cain

Melissa is a Senior Lecturer, National Head of Discipline (Secondary ITE), and Course Coordinator in the National School of Education at Australian Catholic University. Melissa's teaching areas are inclusive education and creative arts education. Her current research centres on inclusive education and initial teacher education with a focus on supporting students with blindness or low vision in mainstream educational contexts. Melissa has managed three large-scale national Learning and Teaching projects and has produced an international MOOC 'Deep Learning for Transformative Pedagogies' through EdX and Microsoft. Melissa has received several higher education teaching awards and is the recipient of the Callaway Doctoral Award.