All Outputs (10)

Editorial: Ways of Seeing Women’s Leadership in Education—Stories, Images, Metaphors, Methods and Theories (2021)
Journal Article

Gender and educational leadership remains a focus for scholarly interest precisely because gender inequalities remain. That is the case 30 years on from the publication of seminal works that established gender and women in educational leadership as a... Read More about Editorial: Ways of Seeing Women’s Leadership in Education—Stories, Images, Metaphors, Methods and Theories.

The “7 Up” Intersectionality Life Grid: A Tool for Reflexive Practice (2020)
Journal Article

Feminist epistemology ensures women’s ways of seeing are central to research purpose and process. In particular, feminist standpoint theory, including Black feminist standpoint theory, recognizes epistemic privilege. Situated knowledge, what is known... Read More about The “7 Up” Intersectionality Life Grid: A Tool for Reflexive Practice.

"That would be my red line": an analysis of headteachers' resistance of neoliberal education reforms (2018)
Journal Article

Leadership and intersectionality: Constructions of successful leadership among Black women school principals in three different contexts (2018)
Journal Article

Using intersectionality theory, the article presents constructions of successful leadership by three Black women school principals in three different contexts: England, South Africa and the United States. The article is premised on the overall shorta... Read More about Leadership and intersectionality: Constructions of successful leadership among Black women school principals in three different contexts.

New lands, new languages: navigating intersectionality in school leadership (2018)
Journal Article

In the global context of deepening social and political divisions and at a time of growing forced displacement of people due to conflict, there is an ever increasing need for educators and school leaders to understand issues relating to equality and... Read More about New lands, new languages: navigating intersectionality in school leadership.

Secondary school leadership preparation and development: Experiences and aspirations of members of senior leadership teams (SLTs) (2018)
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In England, school leadership preparation has shifted from the National College and local authorities to teaching schools, their alliances and multi-academy trusts. Against this changing educational landscape, we investigate opportunities presented t... Read More about Secondary school leadership preparation and development: Experiences and aspirations of members of senior leadership teams (SLTs).

Women secondary head teachers in England: where are they now? (2017)
Journal Article

The underrepresentation of women in secondary school headship in England and elsewhere is an early and longstanding theme in the women and gender in educational leadership literature. The purpose of this article is to report findings from a statistic... Read More about Women secondary head teachers in England: where are they now?.

Women's leadership preparation within the senior leadership team (2015)
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In England, despite making up 60% of the secondary school teaching workforce, women continue to be underrepresented in secondary school headship. In this paper, we focus on the experiences of women working in the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) as a sit... Read More about Women's leadership preparation within the senior leadership team.

Looking for the women in Baron and Taylor's (1969) Educational administration and the social sciences (2014)
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A search for women in Baron and Taylor's (1969) Educational administration and the social sciences [London: The Athlone Press] using feminist poststructural discourse analysis (FPDA) has revealed a changing discourse about gendered educational admini... Read More about Looking for the women in Baron and Taylor's (1969) Educational administration and the social sciences.

Gendered educational leadership: beneath the monoglossic façade (2014)
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Recent gender retheorisation has drawn on Mikhail Bakhtin's literary and linguistic theories of monoglossia and heteroglossia to reconcile seemingly contradictory gender discourses. Thus, girls/women and boys/men as they are biologically sexed might... Read More about Gendered educational leadership: beneath the monoglossic façade.