Position/Status

Teaching Associate

E-mail Address

jb658@cam.ac.uk

Qualifications

• PhD in Education (University of Cambridge)
• MEd Psychology & Education (University of Cambridge)
• PGCE Secondary Geography (University of Oxford)
• BA (Hons) Geography (University of Cambridge)

Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

• Accredited Member of the National Association of Disability Practitioners (AMNADP)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS)

Profile

Julie is the route coordinator for the PPD TP Masters programme. She completed her MEd and PhD in the faculty focusing on neuroinclusion, followed by a research associate role on a project with the Department of Computer Science and Technology exploring AI-powered social robots supporting disabled students’ self-advocacy. Julie also teaches on educational dimensions of artificial intelligence for the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. She is a specialist learning mentor for the ADRC and was previously a head of sixth form and founding chair of governors for an autism special school.

Academic Area and Research Topics

• Neuro-inclusion
• Learning engagement and cognition
• Higher education
• AI in education
• Social robotics in education

Teaching

• TP Masters Programme
• PPD Masters Route
• Tripos student supervision

Principal and Recent Publications

Bailey, J., & Baker, S. T. (2022). Rethinking engagement with learning for neurodiverse students. The Psychology of Education Review, 46(2), 32–36

Bailey, J., Parsons, O. E., Baron-Cohen, S., & Baker, S. T. (2022). A pilot study of autistic and non-autistic adults’ systemizing in a learning task using observational measures of attention, misunderstanding, and reasoning. Cambridge Educational Research e-Journal, 9 1-16.

Bailey, J., & Baker, S. T. (2020). A synthesis of the quantitative literature on autistic pupils’ experience of barriers to inclusion in mainstream schools. Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 20(4), 291-307

Markelius, A., Bailey, J., Gibson, J. L., & Gunes, H. (pre-print). Stakeholder Perspectives on Whether and How Social Robots Can Support Mediation and Advocacy for Higher Education Students with Disabilities (Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2503.16499