Professor Liz Todd is a distinguished international scholar whose work in in the relationships between young people, schools and their communities and on what is needed for inclusive education to become a reality. Passionate about ECER, she has given much time to the co-ordination and development of ECER’s network 4, inclusive education, including increased international collaboration through encouraging use of symposia; improved links with other networks; and the embedding in the culture of network 4 an inclusive social event. She has attended virtually every ECER for the last 20 years.