By Professor Richard Niesche

Book Chapters

Niesche R, 2013, 'Combating role discontinuity for principals of remote Indigenous schools', in Jorgensen R; Sullivan P (ed.), Pedagogies to Enhance Learning for Indigenous Students: Evidence-Based Practice, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 61 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4021-84-5

Niesche R; Mills M, 2013, 'Creating 'temperamental artistes': A longitudinal study of leadership capacity building in disadvantaged schools', in Eacott S; Niesche R (ed.), Empirical Leadership Research: Letting the Data Speak for Themselves, Untested Ideas Research Centre, New York, pp. 143 - 164

Eacott S; Niesche R, 2013, 'Empirical leadership research: letting the data speak for themselves', in Eacott S (ed.), Empirical Leadership Research: Letting the Data Speak for Themselves, Untested Ideas Research Centre, New York, pp. 1 - 11

Eacott S; Niesche R, 2013, 'Empirical leadership research: letting the data speak for themselves', in Eacott S; Niesche R (ed.), Empirical leadership research: letting the data speak for themselves, Untested Ideas Center, Niagara Falls,, pp. 1 - 14

Jorgensen R; Grootenboer P; Niesche R, 2013, 'Teachers' beliefs and practices in teaching mathematics in remote Aboriginal schools', in Pedagogies to Enhance Learning for Indigenous Students: Evidence-Based Practice, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 75 - 88

Niesche R, 2011, ''Doing' leadership differently', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 136 - 139, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Niesche R, 2011, 'A Foucauldian toolbox for educational leadership', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 17 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Niesche R, 2011, 'Disciplinary regimes under self-governance', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 64 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Niesche R, 2011, 'Discourses of educational leadership', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 41 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Niesche R, 2011, 'Foucault and Educational Leadership Disciplining the principal Introduction', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 1 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Niesche R, 2011, 'Leading and managing as ethical work', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 104 - 135, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Niesche R, 2005, 'Disengaging leadership: educational administration and management as a field of scientific knowledge', in Yamanashi J (ed.), Researching Identity, Diversity & Education: Surpassing the Norm, Post Pressed, Teneriffe, pp. 20 - 35

Edited Books

Steven C; Gunter H; Niesche R; Trujillo T, (eds.), 2021, Understanding Educational Leadership: Critical Perspectives and Approaches, Bloomsbury, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/understanding-educational-leadership-9781350081819/

Niesche R; Heffernan A, (ed.), 2020, Theorising subjectivity and identity in educational leadership research, Routledge, https://www.routledge.com/Theorising-Identity-and-Subjectivity-in-Educational-Leadership-Research/Niesche-Heffernan/p/book/9780367145293

Wilkinson J; Niesche R; Eacott S, (eds.), 2018, Challenges for public education: Reconceptualising educational leadership. policy and social justice as resources for hope, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, https://www.routledge.com/Challenges-for-Public-Education-Reconceptualising-Educational-Leadership/Wilkinson-Niesche-Eacott/p/book/9781138348226

Journal articles

Mifsud D; Niesche R, 2026, 'Editorial', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 58, pp. 1 - 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2026.2620202

Niesche R; Mifsud D, 2026, 'Editorial', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 58, pp. 125 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2026.2644056

Gobby B; Wilkinson J; Keddie A; Blackmore J; Eacott S; MacDonald K; Niesche R, 2026, 'Managerial, professional and collective school autonomies: using material semiotics to examine the multiple realities of school autonomy', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 29, pp. 258 - 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2022.2108507

Mifsud D; Campbell P; Niesche R, 2026, 'School leadership and artificial intelligence: A framework for critical and reflexive engagement and enactment', Management in Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08920206261475462

Mifsud D; Campbell P; Niesche R, 2026, 'The Impact of AI on School Leadership Practices and Policy Enactment: A Scoping Literature Review', Leadership and Policy in Schools, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2026.2679510

Niesche R; Mifsud D, 2025, 'Introduction: Bringing the Work of Michel Foucault to Educational Leadership and Policy', Thinking with Michel Foucault in Educational Leadershipthinking with Michel Foucault in Educational Leadership Methodological and Conceptual Challenges, pp. 1 - 12

Gobby B; Blackmore J; Eacott S; Keddie A; MacDonald K; Niesche R; Wilkinson J, 2025, 'Principals and the careless erosion of employment standards in the context of school autonomy and marketisation: a case study of school support staff', Journal of Industrial Relations, 67, pp. 687 - 706, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00221856241299246

Niesche R, 2025, 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism By: Anthony Thorpe and Jean Pierre Elonga Mboyo', RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION & LEADERSHIP, 10, pp. 1156 - 1161, http://dx.doi.org/10.30828/real.1829155

Wilkinson J; MacDonald K; Keddie A; Gobby B; Eacott S; Niesche R; Blackmore J, 2024, 'School transformation in minoritized settings: a practice architectures lens', International Journal of Leadership in Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2024.2342296

MacDonald K; Keddie A; Eacott S; Wilkinson J; Blackmore J; Niesche R; Gobby B, 2024, 'The spatiality of economic maldistribution in public-school funding in Australia: still a poisonous debate', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 56, pp. 180 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2023.2174952

Niesche R; Eacott S; Keddie A; Gobby B; MacDonald K; Wilkinson J; Blackmore J, 2023, 'Principals’ perceptions of school autonomy and educational leadership', Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 51, pp. 1260 - 1277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17411432211034174

MacDonald K; Keddie A; Blackmore J; Mahoney C; Wilkinson J; Gobby B; Niesche R; Eacott S, 2023, 'School autonomy reform and social justice: a policy overview of Australian public education (1970s to present)', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 307 - 327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-021-00482-4

Eacott S; Niesche R; Keddie A; Blackmore J; Wilkinson J; Gobby B; MacDonald K, 2023, 'Autonomy, Instructional Leadership and Improving Outcomes–The LSLD Reforms in NSW, Australia', Leadership and Policy in Schools, 22, pp. 811 - 824, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2022.2081212

Blackmore J; MacDonald K; Keddie A; Gobby B; Wilkinson J; Eacott S; Niesche R, 2023, 'Election or selection? School autonomy reform, governance and the politics of school councils', Journal of Education Policy, 38, pp. 547 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2021.2022766

Torrance D; Mifsud D; Niesche R; Fertig M, 2023, 'Headteachers and the pandemic: Themes from a review of literature on leadership for professional learning in complex times', Professional Development in Education, 49, pp. 1103 - 1116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2023.2229333

Eacott S; Macdonald K; Keddie A; Blackmore J; Wilkinson J; Niesche R; Gobby B; Fernandez I, 2020, 'COVID-19 and inequities in Australian education - insights on federalism, autonomy, and access', International Studies in Educational Administration, 48, pp. 6 - 14

Keddie A; Claire MacDonald K; Blackmore J; Eacott S; Gobby B; Mahoney C; Niesche R; Wilkinson J, 2020, 'School autonomy, marketisation and social justice: the plight of principals and schools', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 52, pp. 432 - 447, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2020.1818699

Keddie A; MacDonald K; Blackmore J; Wilkinson J; Gobby B; Niesche R; Eacott S; Mahoney C, 2020, 'The constitution of school autonomy in Australian public education: areas of paradox for social justice', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 25, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2020.1781934

Niesche R, 2020, 'Critical perspectives in educational leadership', Leading and Managing, 26, pp. 40 - 45, http://www.acel.org.au/acel/ACELWEB/ACELWEB/Publications/Leading___Managing.aspx

Gobby B; Niesche R, 2019, 'Community empowerment? School autonomy, school boards and depoliticising governance', Australian Educational Researcher, 46, pp. 565 - 582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-019-00303-9

Niesche R, 2018, 'Foucault and School Leadership Research: Bridging Theory and Method', BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, 66, pp. 418 - 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2018.1443724

Kabgani S; Niesche R; Gulson K, 2017, 'Psycho-politicising educational subjectivity: A post humanist consideration of Ranciere and Lacan', Educational Philosophy and Theory, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1402677

Niesche R, 2017, 'Critical perspectives in educational leadership: A new 'theory turn'?', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2017.1395600

Niesche R, 2015, 'What use is Foucault in education today?', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2015.1034575

Niesche R; Gowlett C, 2015, 'Advocating a Post-structuralist Politics for Educational Leadership', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 372 - 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2014.976930

Niesche R, 2015, 'Guest Editorial', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 113 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.793923

Niesche R, 2015, 'Governmentality and My School: School Principals in Societies of Control', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 133 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.793925

Niesche R, 2015, 'Guest Editorial', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 113 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.793923

Niesche R; Keddie A, 2014, 'Issues of Indigenous representation: White advocacy and the complexities of ethical leadership', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27, pp. 509 - 526, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2013.771223

Mills M; Niesche R, 2014, 'School reform and the emotional demands of principals: Lorna's story', School Leadership and Management, 34, pp. 120 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2013.856295

Niesche R, 2013, 'Deploying educational leadership as a form of governmentality', Discourse, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2013.805018

Niesche R, 2013, 'Politicizing articulation: Applying Lyotard's work to the use of standards in educational leadership', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 16, pp. 220 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2012.688874

Niesche R, 2013, 'Foucault, counter-conduct and school leadership as a form of political subjectivity', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 45, pp. 144 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2013.768968

Niesche R, 2013, 'Guest Editorial', Educational Philosophy and Theory, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.793923

Niesche R; Mills M, 2013, 'Creating ‘temperamental artistes’: A longitudinal study of leadership capacity building in disadvantaged schools', Leadership and Policy Quarterly, 2, pp. 181 - 197, http://www.untestedideas.com/journals.php?journal=LPQ

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