Christine Nightingale

Dr Christine Nightingale is NIACE’s Development Officer for Inclusive Learning and Senior Adviser to the Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning.

Christine’s work has typically centred around wider strategic and policy issues in lifelong learning. Recent work at NIACE has focussed on the mechanisms and strategies that promote inclusion for disabled learners. These include work with partners on the Disability Discrimination Act and Disability Equality Duties, transport to learning for disabled learners, safeguarding vulnerable groups and enabling technology.

Christine has worked in healthcare, further education, adult and community learning, and taught and researched for fourteen years in higher education in three British universities.

Christine has had M.E. for over 15 years and so has experienced and still experiences difficulties in managing the condition and working in the lifelong learning sector.

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