All Outputs (38)

Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems (2024)
Journal Article

This article sets out an original conceptual framework for place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems. High quality Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CDPL) by teachers is associated wi... Read More about Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems.

The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times (2024)
Journal Article

The COVID 19 pandemic created new challenges for school leaders. They worked very long hours in difficult circumstances. Improvising and responding quickly to poorly timed central guidelines had an adverse effect on their health and wellbeing. Our mi... Read More about The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times.

Leadership across partnerships and networks (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter focuses on leadership across inter-school partnerships and networks. It argues that existing research and policy has prioritised a focus on leadership within individual schools, but that this is insufficient in the context of contemporar... Read More about Leadership across partnerships and networks.

Storytelling With Networks: Realizing the Explanatory Potential of Network Diagrams Through the Integration of Qualitative Data (2023)
Journal Article

Network visualizations are alluring yet deceptively difficult to interpret. This article demonstrates several strategies for integrating qualitative data into interactive network diagrams for the purposes of providing contextual information about act... Read More about Storytelling With Networks: Realizing the Explanatory Potential of Network Diagrams Through the Integration of Qualitative Data.

Do informal networks become formalised over time? Analysing school networks and multi-academy trust membership in England using ego-centric analysis (2023)
Journal Article

Recent decades have seen a global shift in educational policy and practice towards various forms of ‘joining-up’, through partnerships and networks. These networks have differing aims but are broadly geared towards increasing quality and/or innovatio... Read More about Do informal networks become formalised over time? Analysing school networks and multi-academy trust membership in England using ego-centric analysis.

Local learning landscapes: exploring coherence, equity and quality in teacher professional development in England (2023)
Report

Ensuring that all teachers engage in high-quality Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CPDL) has long been a policy priority in school systems worldwide, given evidence that this can lead to improvements in teaching quality and, thereby,... Read More about Local learning landscapes: exploring coherence, equity and quality in teacher professional development in England.

School to school collaboration through Teaching School Alliances in England: ‘system leadership’ in a messy and hybrid governance context (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores school-to-school collaboration via Teaching School Alliances (TSAs) in one locality in England, drawing on governance theory (Bevir, 2011) - specifically hierarchy, markets and networks (Tenbensel, 2015). It focuses on three TSA... Read More about School to school collaboration through Teaching School Alliances in England: ‘system leadership’ in a messy and hybrid governance context.

Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England (2022)
Journal Article

Inter-school networks have been promoted in many school systems globally to facilitate: knowledge generation and dissemination; responsiveness to increasingly diverse student and societal needs; and emotional and practical peer support for educationa... Read More about Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England.

Networking Small Rural Schools in the Pandemic (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter draws on findings from an evaluation of two regional networks developed by the Church of England Foundation for Educational Leadership to support senior leaders in small rural schools in England. The networks were launched in September 2... Read More about Networking Small Rural Schools in the Pandemic.

Leading Educational Networks: Theory, Policy and Practice (2022)
Book

This book offers a global perspective on educational networks, reviewing theory and practice before setting out four lenses: educational effectiveness and improvement; governance theory; complexity theory; and Actor-Network Theory. Using these lenses... Read More about Leading Educational Networks: Theory, Policy and Practice.

Vox Poetica: bringing an arts-based research method to school leaders’ lockdown experiences (2022)
Journal Article

The work of school leaders during lockdown has been emotionally charged and emotionally draining, affecting immediate well-being and longer term career plans. In order to communicate the emotions that we were told about and which were obvious during... Read More about Vox Poetica: bringing an arts-based research method to school leaders’ lockdown experiences.

Networked Improvement in the US and England: A New Role for the Middle Tier (2022)
Book Chapter

As education systems across the globe confront increasingly lofty demands for rigor and equity, there is a growing need to investigate the ways in which practice-based knowledge is generated, shared, and used by teachers and school leaders across div... Read More about Networked Improvement in the US and England: A New Role for the Middle Tier.

Editorial for Special Issue - Leadership in Multi-School Organisations (2021)
Journal Article

This special issue focusses on governance, leadership and improvement in Multi-School Organisations (MSOs). Three types of MSO are examined across the five articles - Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in England, Boards of Multiple Schools (BMSs) in the Ne... Read More about Editorial for Special Issue - Leadership in Multi-School Organisations.

The trust deficit in England: emerging research evidence about school leaders and the pandemic (2021)
Journal Article

Limited research has assessed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on school leaders specifically. Working together with England's two leader associations, we designed and conducted a national survey of almost 1500 leaders in summer 2021 to assess th... Read More about The trust deficit in England: emerging research evidence about school leaders and the pandemic.

Leading Curriculum Development (2021)
Book Chapter

The importance of leadership in shaping and developing the curriculum in schools is widely recognized. However, despite this recognition of the need for school leaders to be, inter alia, curriculum leaders, there is surprisingly little robust resear... Read More about Leading Curriculum Development.

Introduction: School leadership and education system reform (2021)
Book Chapter

This second edition of School Leadership and Education System Reform includes contributions from a range of academics, policy makers and practitioners. It focuses on developments in England and addresses four questions: i) how can school leaders sha... Read More about Introduction: School leadership and education system reform.

Leadership And School Improvement In Multi-Academy Trusts (2021)
Book Chapter

The focus in this chapter is on leadership and improvement in Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in England, informed by findings from a mixed methods study by the authors (Greany, 2018). The chapter aims to: • Summarize the key features and evolution of... Read More about Leadership And School Improvement In Multi-Academy Trusts.

School System Governance And The Implications For Schools (2021)
Book Chapter

Conservative-led governments in power since 2010 have introduced a range of reforms in England, including a rapid expansion in the number of academies and Multi-Academy Trusts, the roll back of Local Authorities and the encouragement of new school-to... Read More about School System Governance And The Implications For Schools.

Structural integration and knowledge exchange in multi-academy trusts: comparing approaches with evidence and theory from non-educational sectors (2021)
Journal Article

This article analyses the ways in which leaders in Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in England work to develop shared improvement practices across the schools they operate. It draws on case study evidence gathered as part of a larger mixed methods study b... Read More about Structural integration and knowledge exchange in multi-academy trusts: comparing approaches with evidence and theory from non-educational sectors.

Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work? (2021)
Book Chapter

Networks, collaborations and partnerships between schools can take multiple forms and achieve multiple objectives. This can make them hard to make sense of – and even harder to lead and manage. Nevertheless, this chapter argues that policy makers sho... Read More about Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work?.