Meet your trainer

Dr Brian Irvine

Dr Brian Irvine works at UCL at CRAE, the Centre of Research in Autism and Education. There he works as an Early Career Researcher on the ESRC funded Superior Perceptual Capacity in Autism, SUPER. For his doctoral thesis at the University of Birmingham he investigated Specialist (Autism) Mentoring in UK Higher Education. Over the last decade he was a mentor himself, where he had had the pleasure of regular meetings with many brilliant students as they journeyed through their university life. He has a background as a teacher in a primary school inclusion provision and – last century – was Head of Philosophy and Religious Education at a secondary modern school.

For fun, he keeps bees, as it guarantees not being interrupted for a few hours. Twitter: @BigBadBee