Alvyra Galkienė. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1920-6944 Current positions - Professor and Chief Researcher and leader of the cluster “Transformative educational research” of the Academy of Education, at Vytautas Magnus University. Education background: 1976 – M.Ed., Special Needs Education Teacher and Speech therapist at Šiauliai University; 2001 – Ph.D. of Social sciences (Education) at Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. Research interests: Inclusive education, Special needs education, Universal design for learning. Memberships of professional societies: European Educational Research Association (EERA), Lithuanian Educational Research Association (LERA), UNITWIN/UNESCO Network on Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity in Education.