Tobias Buchner

Buchner is Chair of the Austrian Monitoring Committee on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Chair of the Inclusive Education Special Interest Research Group of the International Association of the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD).

Next to these positions, Tobias Buchner serves on the board of directors of the competence network of communication technology to support the inclusion of persons with disabilities (KI-I): https://www.ki-i.at/en/home

Following positions at Trinity College Dublin/Ireland, University of Vienna/Austria and University of Halle/Germany, Prof. Dr. Tobias Buchner currently serves as Head of the Department of Inclusive Education at the University of Education Upper Austria. His main research interests are inclusive education, digitalization and space, ableism and education, learning biographies and inclusive research. Buchner won several research awards, such as the ‘Science Award of the German Society of Educational Research’ in 2018. He conducted various national and international projects on inclusive and special education – both as principal investigator and cooperation partner. Furthermore, he has published in the most important peer-reviewed international journals of his field - and is editor of the German Handbook of Inclusive Research as well as the Routledge Handbook on Space, Education and Inclusion.