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Melanie Nind began her teaching career as a special schools teacher for students with severe and complex learning difficulties. She developed and evaluated a teaching approach known as Intensive Interaction and has taught at further education colleges, coordinating support for students with learning difficulties and disabilities. In higher education, she worked as an associate research fellow at the Centre for Autism Studies at the University of Hertfordshire and later became a senior lecturer in special education at Oxford Brookes University and the Open University, where she developed teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate distance learning courses in inclusive education. She joined the University of Southampton as a Reader in 2004 and gained a personal chair in 2007. Her research interests include inclusive research, research methods, and pedagogy, particularly in relation to learning disabilities and autism within a broad social justice framework. Melanie has held key editorial roles and has been involved in various research projects aimed at enhancing the field of education and research methods.