ICEP Europe

Over the past year, the ICEP Europe research team have been working on the Erasmus+ funded AIRED project, along with partners Haikara, ICN Business School (France), and AEG (Spain), with the central aim of investigating the pedagogical, ethical, and inclusive use of artificial intelligence (AI) across the education sector in Europe. Through this work, it has become evident that […]

The history of autism research is, in large part, a history of studying boys. When Leo Kanner first described autism in 1943, his case studies were predominantly male. Hans Asperger’s research followed the same pattern. The diagnostic criteria that emerged from their work were built on male presentations – and those criteria have shaped clinical

By Dr Miriam Twomety, Module lead for Understanding Autism on the MA/ PG Dip in Inclusive and Special Education  ( A collaborative programme with Hibernia College)  Historically, special education positioned students with a wide range of needs at the margins of education systems; however, the margins may now represent the true centre of educational transformation. As systems struggle to accommodate diversity,