Educational Leadership & Management

Staff working in this area have a broad interest in teaching and research related to the leadership and management of both schools and higher education institutions, including organisational culture, improvement and change management, teacher motivation and staff development. The teaching programmes are primarily focused on comparative and international themes of global significance in educational leadership and management. In addition to the popular MA in International Educational Management and the supervision of research degrees (both Ed.D and Ph.D) in related areas, specialist bespoke leadership and management short courses are also offered.

Recent and/or current examples include programmes for the training and continued professional development of senior Chinese university academics and managers, in partnership with the Tianjin Education Bureau (2005-2007); the Indonesian pesantren deputy headteacher school leadership and management programme, in partnership with the British Council and Nahdlatul Ulama (2004-2008); and a programme in leadership for school improvement for Chinese headteachers, planned for 2008 in partnership with Capital Normal University, Beijing.

Research

Research into educational leadership and management is wide ranging, covering international, comparative and intercultural issues, as well as policy and practice in the UK. Members of the educational leadership and management research group serve on the organising committee of the School of Education’s Centre for Policy Studies in Education.

Our work incorporates a very strong dimension focusing on the development of professionals, professionalism and professional cultures in the compulsory and post-compulsory education sectors and, indeed, in other professions. Current research includes work on: research cultures and research leadership in higher education; a theoretical model of the professional development process in individuals; conceptual and ontological analysis of professionalism; and, ethics in educational leadership and management. A particular feature of our research is micro-level analyses that highlight leadership and management issues from the perspectives of the ‘led’ or the ‘managed’, including morale, job satisfaction and motivation and workplace interpersonal relationships and collegial interaction http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/people/abstract.php?book=128.

We are happy to discuss research supervision, particularly in the areas of:

  • the morale, job satisfaction and motivation of education professionals
  • professional development
  • micropolitics in education workplace settings
  • professionality and professionalism
  • teacher recruitment and retention
  • ethics in educational leadership and management
  • international and comparative perspectives in educational leadership and management
  • educational leadership and management in any national context
  • teaching and learning in higher education
  • researcher development in HE

Please address inquiries to Dr Linda Evans.

Last updated by Ross Featherstone on 1st February 2008