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Teacher Professionalism During the Pandemic: Courage, Care and Resilience (2023)
Book

This insightful book uniquely charts the events, experiences and challenges faced by teachers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic including periods of national lockdowns and school closures. Research-based and evidence informed, this key title... Read More about Teacher Professionalism During the Pandemic: Courage, Care and Resilience.

Commentary – Research on successful school principalship: progress on a secure front (2022)
Journal Article

Policymaking in disruptive times: the development and impact of School Trust-designed policies on teacher and student outcomes (2021)
Report

Research funded by the ESRC IAA and conducted by the University of Nottingham in collaboration with the Confederation of School Trusts, has tracked the leadership of 14 School Trusts from some of the most deprived areas in the Northern region of Engl... Read More about Policymaking in disruptive times: the development and impact of School Trust-designed policies on teacher and student outcomes.

Australian teachers' perceptions of effectiveness in a performative culture (2021)
Journal Article

Teachers' perceptions of effectiveness are shaped by myriad factors, including broad-based national education policy, personal values, and the demands of particular schools and students. Previous research has not investigated the shifting impact of i... Read More about Australian teachers' perceptions of effectiveness in a performative culture.

Developing, Sustaining and Retaining Teacher Quality: Factors That Count (2021)
Book Chapter

Traditionally, teachers’ quality has been understood to rely upon their levels of subject, pedagogical content knowledge and classroom management skills. These are provided initially through a period of pre-service education and training; and may be... Read More about Developing, Sustaining and Retaining Teacher Quality: Factors That Count.

System leadership in disruptive times: robust policy making and enactment in School Trusts (2021)
Report

The research discussed in this report is based upon a project, funded and conducted by the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with the Confederation of School Trusts and the CEOs of 15 Trusts in the Midlands region. This is part of larger sca... Read More about System leadership in disruptive times: robust policy making and enactment in School Trusts.

The new professionalism? how good teachers continue to teach to their best and well in challenging reform contexts (2021)
Book Chapter

Teacher professionalism has long been defined as being composed of a strong technical culture, service ethic, professional commitment, and autonomy. They have been regarded as the pillars which have defined teachers’ professionalism. In recent years,... Read More about The new professionalism? how good teachers continue to teach to their best and well in challenging reform contexts.

School-University Partnerships in Action: The Promise of Change (2021)
Book

How teachers’ individual autonomy may hinder students’ academic progress and attainment: Professionalism in practice (2019)
Journal Article

This article reports a 3-year case study of a primary school in England, in which a recently appointed principal attempted to build ‘collegial professional autonomy’ (Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2, 2015, 20) within a push to impr... Read More about How teachers’ individual autonomy may hinder students’ academic progress and attainment: Professionalism in practice.

How Successful Secondary School Principals in England Respond to Policy Reforms: The Influence of Biography (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article examines how values embedded in the biographies of principals of successful schools influence their responses to systemic policy reforms. Drawing on examples from two secondary principals with simila... Read More about How Successful Secondary School Principals in England Respond to Policy Reforms: The Influence of Biography.

Professional Identity Matters: Agency, Emotions, and Resilience (2018)
Book Chapter

I will take as given that: (1) a core defining feature of teacher professionalism is a positive sense of professional identity; (2) identity is an amalgam of the personal and professional selves, and is represented through the dynamic interplay betwe... Read More about Professional Identity Matters: Agency, Emotions, and Resilience.

The construction of early career teachers’ identities: coping or managing? (2017)
Journal Article

This paper examines how early career teachers cope with or manage the challenges that they experience during the transition from pre-service to the first and then the second year of teaching as they seek to establish stable, positive, professional id... Read More about The construction of early career teachers’ identities: coping or managing?.

Teachers' Worlds and Work: understanding complexity, building quality (2017)
Book

Understanding what influences the quality of teachers’ work across a career is key to building and sustaining their on-going commitment and effectiveness. Teachers’ Worlds and Work provides a new, research-informed consideration of key elements which... Read More about Teachers' Worlds and Work: understanding complexity, building quality.

Influences on the capacities for emotional resilience of teachers in schools serving disadvantaged urban communities: challenges of living on the edge (2016)
Journal Article

This paper investigates how teachers in one school in a socio-economically disadvantaged urban setting draw upon their capacities for resilience to maintain a sense of positive professional identity, commitment and moral purpose. It identifies the dy... Read More about Influences on the capacities for emotional resilience of teachers in schools serving disadvantaged urban communities: challenges of living on the edge.

The impact of leadership on student outcomes: how successful school leaders use transformational and instructional strategies to make a difference (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose: This article illustrates how successful leaders combine the too often dichotomized practices of transformational and instructional leadership in different ways across different phases of their schools’ development in order to progressively s... Read More about The impact of leadership on student outcomes: how successful school leaders use transformational and instructional strategies to make a difference.

Framing research on school principals’ identities (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper provides a basis for a tentative framework for guiding future research into principals’ identity construction and development. It is situated in th... Read More about Framing research on school principals’ identities.

Research priorities for public mental health in Europe: Recommendations of the ROAMER project (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved. Background: The ROAdmap for MEntal health Research in Europe project aimed to create an integrated European roadmap for... Read More about Research priorities for public mental health in Europe: Recommendations of the ROAMER project.

Sustaining the turnaround: what capacity building means in practice (2014)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to show how successful, sustained school improvement in schools in urban settings which serve highly disadvantaged communities relies upon the qualities and skills of their principals to engage, simultaneously, in capacit... Read More about Sustaining the turnaround: what capacity building means in practice.

Using mixed methods to investigate school improvement and the role of leadership: an example of a longitudinal study in England (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to discuss the use of mixed methods research in a major three year project and focuses on the contribution of quantitative and qualitative approaches to study school improvement. It discusses the procedures and mu... Read More about Using mixed methods to investigate school improvement and the role of leadership: an example of a longitudinal study in England.

Teacher quality in the twenty first century: new lives, old truths (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter is based upon a keynote address to the first global teacher education summit, organised by Beijing Normal University in 2011, in which research across the world about influences which affect teachers' sense of professional identity, capa... Read More about Teacher quality in the twenty first century: new lives, old truths.