Prof Adam Boddison is an innovative leader of education with a broad portfolio of experience both in the UK and overseas.
Professor Adam Boddison
Education & Leadership
Adam is CEO at nasen and Chair of Whole School SEND. He is a National Leader of Governance and Trustee at a Multi-Academy Trust, spanning primary, secondary and specialist settings. Adam is a Trustee of the Potential Trust, a member of the National SEND Forum and a Fellow of the RSA. Prior to this, Adam was Director of the Centre for Professional Education at the University of Warwick and Academic Principal for IGGY (a global educational social network for gifted teenagers). He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, a published author and a qualified clinical hypnotherapist.
Adam is also:
- National Leader of Governance – Department for Education
- Chief Executive – National Association for Special Educational Needs
- Trustee – Active Learning Trust
- Chair – Whole School SEND Consortium
- Trustee – Potential Trust
- Director – Leading Learning SEND CiC
- Director – ABC Learning
- Partner – Seventh Wave Training
- Visiting Professor – University of Wolverhampton
- External Examiner – Manchester Metropolitan University
- Member of Editorial Advisory Board for Open University Press
- Member of Editorial Advisory Board for Wiley-Blackwell
- Fellow of the RSA
Notable experience includes:
– Former Director of the Centre for Professional Education (CPE) at the University of Warwick, where Adam secured Ofsted Outstanding judgements for both primary and secondary teacher training provision and ran a number of international education projects
– Former Academic Principal for the global educational social network: IGGY
– Chief External Examiner for the Undergraduate Secondary Education Degree at Edge Hill University
– 10 years experience in the Residential Life Team at the University of Warwick, including five years as Warden of the Heronbank and Lakeside Student Village
– Author of The Maths behind the Magic
– Series Editor for a suite of A-level Maths and Further Maths text books (Harper Collins, Cambridge International Education)
– Public profile through the media and through research/conferences
– Qualified clinical hypnotherapist (Institute of Clinical Hypnosis)
Adam’s other notable memberships:
– Special Schools Voice – a collaborative assembly, offering a voice to special schools
– National SEND Forum – a politically neutral forum of providers, champions and commissioners of SEND, facilitated by FLSE (Federation of Leaders of Special Education)
– DfE SEND Advisory Group
– GT Voice
– All Souls Group
– Special Education Consortium.