Dunlop Aline-Wendy Prof

Biographical Summary

Professor Aline-Wendy Dunlop has taught in the university sector since 1993: first at Moray House Institute of Education in Edinburgh and from 1996 at the University of Strathclyde. Her work lies in two key areas: one of which is early education and the other which is autism. Until July 2005 she was Course Director of the Certificate, Diploma and Masters in Early Education, and the Certificate, Diploma and Masters in Autism. Her very varied teaching experience over 23 years in schools and the community included a headship, home visiting, training education staff in residential childcare, teaching SNNEB students, working with parents, special educational needs and mainstream early education. Aline-Wendy serves on the reconstituted Scottish Government ASD Reference Group, and was a member of the Scottish Government Education Autism Working Group. She was a member of the Faculty of Education Board of Study. She has been an international research conference chair, is an invited keynote speaker at a range of conferences, and has published both in early education and in autism. She has been an External Examiner for the Autism Programmes at the University of Birmingham; External Examiner for the Masters in Early Education, and the Masters in Primary Education at the Institute of Education, University of London (2004-2007), and is currently External Examiner for the BA(Hons) Early Childhood Studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology. She is a member of the European Masters in Early Childhood Education and Care (EMEC) Course Team. She is a Vice-President of the British Association of Early Childhood Education, a member of the ESRC Peer Review College and is a Steering Group member for the Growing up in Scotland (GUS) Longitudinal Study. She is the 2010 SERA conference group convener. In July 2010 Aline-Wendy was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Human Development and Counselling at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, following an award by Waikato Graduate Women Charitable Trust’s Visiting Scholar Award 2009 for women scholars of outstanding academic achievement

Responsibilities

Upon retiral from her full time post in September 2010 Professor Aline-Wendy Dunlop takes up appointment as Emeritus Professor in the School of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She will continue to contribute through research, publication and student supervision.

Research Interests

Aline-Wendy's main areas of current research interest are transitions in education, positive behaviour in the early years, leadership in early education, social interaction and understanding in autism, the empowerment of families of very young children and training for professionals in the field of autism. Aline-Wendy is continuing to support four research projects: A policy based functional analysis of the Children’s workforce for Scottish Government; a Scoping Study of the Implementation of the Early Years Framework for Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People; The Adult Autism Health and Wellbeing Project and the Starcatchers Action Research Project. She was Project Leader for: the SEED funded Positive Behaviour in the Early Years Research Project (reported 2008); the Scottish Autism Service Network Development Project (2005-2007) and funded by the Scottish Executive Health Department, The Scottish Autism Toolbox Project and The Autism Training Accreditation Project. She has been a Principal Investigator for a number of Literature Reviews.

Teaching Interests

Aline-Wendy contributes to supervision for PhD students, and a number of Masters students.

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Vice-President of the British Association of Early Childhood Education - Early Education
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Executive Committee member of the Scottish Educational Research Association
• Co-Convenor Transitions SIG - European Educational Research Association
• British Educational Research Association

External Responsibilities

• Membership of the Scottish Government Autistic Spectrum Disorders Reference Group
• Membership of the Board of Studies for the European Masters in Early Childhood Education and Care
• External Examiner- Dublin Institute of Technology
• Member of the ESRC Peer Review College