Professor Jonathan Glazzard

Professor Jonathan Glazzard is Professor of Inclusive Education in the Carnegie School of Education. In 2015 he was awarded National Teaching Fellow status by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and is a Principal Fellow of the HEA. He is Director of the Centre for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Education and he is Principal Researcher in the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools. Jonathan is a researcher, teacher educator and qualified teacher. His research focuses on a broad range of topics and disciplines, including mental health, LGBTQ+ inclusion, special educational needs, critical disability studies, critical psychology, sociology and early literacy development.

Jonathan is a qualitative researcher and uses a broad range of approaches, including narrative methodology, visual/participatory methodologies and more traditional interviews and focus groups. Jonathan’s recent projects include exploration of head teacher resilience, teacher mental health and the experiences of teachers who identify as LGBTQ+. He is deeply committed to research which advances inclusion and social justice for marginalised groups and individuals. Prior to his current role, Jonathan led the Primary Teacher Education courses at the University of Huddersfield (2005-15) and he led institutional wide learning, teaching and assessment at Leeds Trinity University (2015-17). He gained his professorship at Leeds Beckett University in 2017. Prior to his academic career, Jonathan was a primary school teacher and Assistant Headteacher (1995-2005).

Jonathan teaches on postgraduate and undergraduate primary and secondary initial teacher education courses and distance learning programmes in the Carnegie School of Education. He supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations across a range of courses. He is Course Leader for the MA in Leadership of School Mental Health and Wellbeing and is Director of Studies and supervisor for several MRes, EdD and PhD students.