Professor Roger Slee is the Diamond Jubilee Professor of Disability and Inclusion in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at The University of Leeds. Roger was formerly the Deputy Director General of Education in Queensland, Australia with responsibility for Strategic Policy, Curriculum Reform, and Workforce Development. He has also been a Dean of Education at The University of Western Australia, Goldsmiths College – University of London, and McGill University. He also held the Chair of Inclusive Education at the Institute of Education, UCL.
Roger has been engaged as an advisor to governments around the world and wrote the scoping technical paper for UNESCO’s 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report and works with the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education advising on inter-governmental policy development in inclusive education. Roger has been appointed as a senior adviser for Deloitte Access Economics on state-wide government reviews of education for disabled students (Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, Northern Territory & Federal Department of Education).
Roger is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Inclusive Education and the Journal of Disability Studies in Education. He has written and edited numerous books and has been a CI on Australian Research Council “Discovery” and “Linkage” grants as well as research grants with UNICEF, Save the Children, and the Open Society Foundation. Roger was the Chair of the Board of Directors of Children & Young People with Disabilities Australia. Most recently Roger was awarded an Honorary Doctorate and had a Chair established in his Name at the Bernardo O’Higgins University in Chile.
Keynote Presentation: Wellbeing in an unwell world.
This presentation considers the state of the world in an era of what Manuel Castells records as multiple simultaneous crises. Central to this consideration will be an interrogation of the knowledge and dispositions required to generate the character and scope of social reform pursuant to being and living well.
