Rate My Professor Foteini Pasenidou

Dr. Foteini Pasenidou serves as a Lecturer in Disability and Education within the School of Education, College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. She is also a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion (CRESI). Her research agenda centers on advancing inclusive education as a systemic change, focusing on the conceptualization and experience of school settings as inclusive whole school communities. Key areas of investigation include identifying enablers and challenges to students' inclusive education, particularly for those with disabilities, across early childhood, primary, and secondary school contexts. Pasenidou actively incorporates perspectives from diverse stakeholders such as students, parents/carers, educators, paraprofessionals, architects, and policymakers, empowering them as agents of change. Her work employs whole school, intersectional, and interdisciplinary lenses, notably exploring the role of architecture in fostering inclusive education through participatory and transformative inquiries.

In her scholarly contributions, Pasenidou co-authored the award-winning paper "A Qualitative Meta-Study of Youth Voice and Co-Participatory Research Practices: Informing Cyber/Bullying Research Methodologies," which received the Best Paper Award 2023 from the International Journal of Bullying Prevention. Notable publications include "A co-designed by students ‘architecture of schooling’ framework: Informing a novel architecture lens within the field of inclusive education" published in the International Journal of Educational Research in 2024, "The emerging intersection: the role of architecture in promoting inclusive education" in the Oxford Review of Education in 2024, and "Building accessibility in mathematics: Supporting primary students who are Hard of Hearing or D/deaf in mathematics" in the Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom in 2025. She has produced significant reports such as "Reimagining leadership for school inclusion: empowering opportunities provided by school leaders to staff to drive change" (2025) and "Trinity College learning inclusion practices review" (2024). Pasenidou teaches courses including EDUC 3055 Inclusive Education and EDUC 4100 Teaching Children with Disabilities. Eligible to co-supervise Masters and PhD students, she currently co-supervises a doctorate candidate exploring the perspectives of school-aged students on the autism spectrum about their inclusion and educational experiences in Saudi Arabia mainstream schools. Her ongoing projects include "Reimagining leadership for school inclusion: school community members driving change" at Holy Family Catholic School (2024-2025) and the "Naturally Brave Project," Growing With Gratitude (2024).