Kate is a senior lecturer in inclusion and disability and is the Graduate Research Coordinator within the Faculty of Education. She has been researching and teaching in higher education within the Faculty of Education at Monash University for eleven years, focusing her research on:

• Evidence-based instruction and intervention in reading, writing and behaviour
• Universal Design
• Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
• Disability legislation, policy and funding

Kate has completed research for the Commonwealth and State Education Departments as well as Catholic Education Melbourne. She is a member of the Tasmanian Literacy Panel and was called as an expert witness for the Royal Commission into Violence, Neglect, Abuse and Exploitation of Persons with Disability where she spoke about barriers experienced by children and young people with disability in accessing safe, quality and inclusive education.

Kate regularly provides professional learning to school teachers, and she writes for both academics as well as readers from the general public. She is a co-convenor for the Inclusive Education Special Interest Group in the Australian Association of Research in Education

Kate's research focuses on schoolwide and classroom practices that support all students to participate, engage and make progress in learning. Her current projects explore differentiated teaching and learning interventions that fit within Tiers 1 and 2 of multi-tiered systems of support. 

Teaching Commitment

EDF5656 - Practising Inclusion

EDF5692 - Professional Practice in Special and Inclusive Education

EDF5667 - Positive Behaviour Support