By Professor Scott Eacott

Journal articles

Eacott S, 2026, 'Housing and transport costs for school education staff in high growth areas: the case of Sydney, Australia', Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 41, pp. 1003 - 1022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10901-025-10256-4

Eacott S, 2026, 'The complexity of teacher housing policies: the case of Australia', Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2026.103023

Kidston N; Eacott S; Lin Z-H, 2026, 'Housing affordability and the teacher workforce: the case of Hobart, Australia', Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2026.1793407

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

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

Eacott S; Gilbert C; MacDonald K, 2025, 'Schools and the city: workforce distribution, housing and city schools', Australian Educational Researcher, 52, pp. 1181 - 1197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00758-5

Eacott S, 2025, 'The effect of abolishing the New Schools Policy on the provision of schools and enrolments in Australia', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 57, pp. 249 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2024.2353020

Eacott S, 2024, 'School provision, workforce distribution, housing, and the staffing of schools: The case of Sydney, Australia', International Journal of Educational Development, 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103110

Medlin L; Eacott S; Gilbert C; MacDonald K; Pettit CJ, 2024, 'Housing the Teacher Workforce: A Scoping Review', Education Sciences, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci14050537

Eacott S, 2024, 'The systemic implications of housing affordability for the teacher shortage: the case of New South Wales, Australia', Australian Educational Researcher, 51, pp. 733 - 755, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00621-z

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

Eacott S, 2023, 'The principled principal: the case of Australian Steiner schools', International Journal of Educational Management, 37, pp. 737 - 751, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-10-2022-0411

Eacott S, 2023, 'Schooling for equitable excellence: principles of systemic design', Journal of Educational Administration, 61, pp. 304 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JEA-10-2022-0173

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

Strnadová I; Eacott S; Danker J; Dowse L; Lenne B; Alonzo D; Tso M; Loblinzk J, 2023, 'Leading schools for specific purposes: a relational analysis of provision', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 55, pp. 146 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2022.2101989

Eacott S; Wainer C, 2023, 'Schooling on the margins: the problems and possibilities of Montessori schools in Australia', Cambridge Journal of Education, 53, pp. 551 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2189228

Eacott S, 2022, 'Pracademia: an answer but not the answer to an enduring question', Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 7, pp. 57 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JPCC-12-2020-0100

Eacott S, 2022, 'A relational enquiry into the provision of small schools', International Journal of Educational Research Open, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2021.100119

Buchanan RA; Forster DJ; Douglas S; Nakar S; Boon HJ; Heath T; Heyward P; D’Olimpio L; Ailwood J; Eacott S; Smith S; Peters M; Tesar M, 2022, 'Philosophy of education in a new key: Exploring new ways of teaching and doing ethics in education in the 21st century', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54, pp. 1178 - 1197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1880387

Eacott S, 2022, 'The principals’ workday: a relational analysis', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 25, pp. 258 - 271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2020.1725645

Heffernan T; Eacott S; Bosetti L, 2021, 'Higher education leadership and context: a study of university vice-chancellors and presidents', International Journal of Educational Management, 35, pp. 1063 - 1073, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-02-2021-0061

Eacott S, 2021, 'Regional secondary school consolidation: theorizing an innovative model', Discourse, 42, pp. 323 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2019.1636209

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

Eacott S, 2020, 'Australian educational leadership research', Leading and Managing, 26, pp. 77 - 83

Eacott S, 2020, 'François dépelteau and the generation of a relational intellectual community', Digithum, 2020, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i26.374154

Eacott S, 2020, 'Relational Approaches to Educational Administration Research', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.647

Eacott S; Freeborn A, 2020, 'Regional and rural school consolidation: a scoping study of research literature', International Journal of Educational Management, 34, pp. 477 - 491, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-08-2019-0318

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

Luan X; Eacott S; Vass G, 2020, 'Supplementary no more: a relational analysis of supplementary education in China', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 52, pp. 373 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2020.1726302

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

Eacott S, 2020, 'Educational leadership research, Twitter and the curation of followership', Leadership, Education, Personality: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2, pp. 91 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1365/s42681-020-00016-z

Eacott S, 2019, 'Ranting, raving and complaining: reflections on working against orthodoxy', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 22, pp. 774 - 782, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2018.1492025

Eacott S, 2019, 'Taking context seriously: a relational approach to school leadership', The Australian Educational Leader, 41, pp. 28 - 30

Eacott S, 2019, 'Regional secondary school consolidation: A rationale and study protocol', Issues in Educational Research, 29, pp. 678 - 694, http://www.iier.org.au/iier29/eacott.pdf

Eacott S, 2019, 'Starting points for a relational approach to organizational theory: An overview', Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 4, pp. 16 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.30828/real/2019.1.2

Eacott S, 2019, 'The problems and possibilities of the relational approach: An introduction to the special issue', Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 4, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.30828/real/2019.1.1

Eacott S, 2019, 'The relational approach and social epistemology in educational leadership: A rejoinder', Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 4, pp. 166 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.30828/real/2019.1.7

Eacott S, 2018, 'Social epistemology and the theory turn: a response to Niesche', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50, pp. 316 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2018.1508128

Eacott S, 2018, 'Theoretical notes on a relational approach to principals’ time use', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50, pp. 284 - 298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2018.1478804

Eacott S, 2018, 'Fluctuations in value: the shifting worth of journal articles in educational administration', Critical Studies in Education, 59, pp. 187 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2016.1186708

Eacott S, 2017, 'School leadership and the cult of the guru: the neo-Taylorism of Hattie', School Leadership and Management, 37, pp. 413 - 426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2017.1327428

Eacott S, 2017, 'A social epistemology for educational administration and leadership', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 49, pp. 196 - 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2017.1315380

Eacott S, 2016, 'Advancing the Relational Research Program', Journal of Educational Administration and Foundations, 25, pp. 59 - 70, http://jeaf.ca/index.php/jeaf/article/view/68/31

Eacott S, 2016, 'Methodological Notes on the Study of Educational Leadership Relationally', Journal of Educational Administration and Foundations, 25, pp. 3 - 14, http://jeaf.ca/index.php/jeaf/article/view/63/27

Asuga G; Scevak J; Eacott S, 2016, 'Educational leadership, management and administration in Africa: an analysis of contemporary literature', School Leadership and Management, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2016.1247042

Asuga GN; Scevak J; Eacott S, 2016, 'Bringing a ‘Local’ Voice to a ‘Universal’ Discourse: School Leadership Preparation and Development in Kenya', International Studies in Educational Administration, 44, pp. 25 - 39

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