Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Verity Ward
Lecturer
Verity is a Lecturer within Interdisciplinary Studies at the Carnegie School of Education. She teaches modules relating to academic and professional development, research methods, autism, and inclusive education.
Verity has an interdisciplinary background, spanning education, human-computer interaction, psychology, computer science, and linguistics. Prior to joining the university, she was a research assistant and doctoral candidate within the Education School at University of Southampton, and worked as an Artificial Intelligence Engineer.
Verity adopts a values-based approach to both her teaching and research, which aims to promote students' agency within learning by embracing diversity and building on their strengths. She teaches undergraduate modules across Early Years, Childhood Studies and Teaching and Education, as well as the Autism and Learning module for Master's students.
Current Teaching
- BA Early Years: Academic Skills, Research Methods and Ethics, Current Issues in the Early Years, Personal Professional Development 3
- BA Teaching and Education: Inclusive Education
- BA Childhood Studies: The Academic Self
- MA in Education: Autism and Learning
Research Interests
Verity completed her doctoral research within the Autism Community Research Network @ Southampton (ACoRNS). She conducts collaborative research based within research-practice partnerships, which brings together lived-experience, and practice-based knowledge to transform educational practice. Her research focuses on neurodivergent children and young people's educational experiences of co-production using creative and participatory digital methods.
Ask Me About
- Neurodiversity
- Inclusion
- Co-production
- Participatory Design
- Digital Stories
- Artificial intelligence
- Autism
- Computing
- Creative technologies
- Early years
- Education
