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Irvin Crawford

Irvin is a qualified teacher and has 21 years experience in the education sector, occupying a number of leadership roles – as a special needs co-ordinator, senior manager, deputy head and consultant in special needs. He initially trained as a secondary teacher, working in secondary education and FE for some years before re-training and moving into the primary sector, specialising in special needs education, and gaining post-graduate qualifications in special needs and management. He has worked in a number of inner-city schools and has first-hand experience of the pressures and demands that teachers and educationalists face. He continues to teach part-time.

Irvin has a particular interest in disability issues, both in education and at work, and has experience of working with disabled children and their families and also in mentoring adults with disabilities in the workplace.

He has always had a keen interest in how people develop, grow and adapt to their immediate environments, and in particular, how people behave within systems and organizations. This, together with a long-standing interest in philosophy, his interest in and experience of special needs, disability and education led him to study psychology, and he gained his MSc in occupational and organizational psychology from the University of East London, graduating with distinction.

Irvin’s particular interests within occupational psychology include coaching, counselling and organizational development, and he is currently enrolled on a post-graduate course in coaching for leadership and organizational development, in order to extend his skills still further.