Nidhi Singal is a Professor of Disability and Inclusive Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and the Vice President of Hughes Hall College.
Her research examines the educational experiences of persons with disabilities, the quality of teaching and learning in mainstream classrooms, and the impact of schooling. She is particularly interested in the development of culturally-sensitive methodological approaches in educational research. Her work addresses unequal power relations in North-South research partnerships, and advocates a greater focus on the ethics of research dissemination.
Nidhi works closely with international donor and bilateral agencies and international non-governmental organisations assisting them in developing research projects, undertaking programme evaluations and providing evidence-based policy advice on a wide range of issues aimed at fulfilling commitments towards inclusive education. She has served as a member of the Technical Advisory Council of the World Bank’s Inclusive Education Initiative, contributed as the Disability Expert on The Education Workforce Initiative. She was part of the Technical Advisory Review Team for the Global Education Monitoring Report on Inclusive Education.
In 2022, Nidhi was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences for her outstanding contributions to educational research.