Select Publications
Journal articles
2008, 'Leading, managing and motivating staff towards achieving of school goals', The Australian Educational Leader, 30, pp. 28 - 31
,2008, 'Teaching educational leadership and administration in Australia', JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND HISTORY, 40, pp. 149 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620802210913
,2007, 'Strategy and the school principal', Journal of Catholic School Studies, 79, pp. 3 - 18
,2007, 'Developing a framework for professional learning programs in schools', The Australian Educational Leader, 29, pp. 40 - 43
,2006, 'Strategy in schools: from direction to plan', The Australian Educational Leader, 28, pp. 24 - 26
,2006, 'Strategy: an educational leadership imperative', Perspectives on Educational Leadership, 16, pp. 1 - 2
,2006, 'Strategic leadership and planning for universities in the global economy', Education and Society, 24, pp. 49 - 65
,2004, 'Leading towards excellence: a model for implementing effective school-wide change', The Practising Administrator, 26, pp. 7 - 9
,Conference Presentations
2023, 'Housing and transport affordability for school staff and its impact on systemic workforce planning', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 27 November 2023 - 30 November 2023
,2023, 'Systemic design for equitable excellence: testing the New South Wales context', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 27 November 2023 - 30 November 2023
,2022, 'Estimating the effect of choice and autonomy reforms on school systems in Australia', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 27 November 2022 - 01 December 2022
,2022, 'The operational and strategic impact of a teacher shortage on school leadership', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 27 November 2022 - 01 December 2022
,2022, 'Introducing relational analysis into the provision of education', presented at International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement, 05 January 2022 - 11 January 2022
,2022, 'Pracademia: a answer but not the question most think', presented at International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement, 05 January 2022 - 11 January 2022
,2021, 'Entrepreneurship, not all its cracked up to be', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education, 28 November 2021 - 02 December 2021
,2021, 'Building education systems for equity and inclusion', presented at Australian Social Policy Conference, 25 October 2021 - 05 November 2021
,2021, 'Small schools for equity and inclusion', presented at World Educational leadership Summit, 27 September 2021 - 29 September 2021
,2021, 'Small schools as vital pillars of the educational ecosystem', presented at Canadian Sociological Association Annual Congress, 19 July 2021 - 23 July 2021
,2019, 'Overcoming substantialism through methodology not methods', presented at The 88th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 01 June 2019 - 07 June 2019
,2019, 'Recasting the image of ‘the school’ through a relational analysis', presented at The 88th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 01 June 2019 - 07 June 2019
,2018, 'Educational leadership researchers, (social) scientific credibility, and the Kardashian index', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, 02 December 2018 - 06 December 2018
,2018, 'Empowering educators through flipped school leadership', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, 02 December 2018 - 06 December 2018
,2018, 'Twitter tagging cartels, social science Kardashians, and the cult of the guru', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, 02 December 2018 - 06 December 2018
,2018, 'Beyond leadership: a relational approach to organizations', presented at XIX International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, 15 July 2018 - 21 July 2018
,2017, 'A case study of principals' experiences of time', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia, 03 December 2017 - 07 December 2017
,2017, 'Beyond leadership: a relational approach to organizational theory in education', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education, Canberra, Australia, 03 December 2017 - 07 December 2017
,2017, 'Principals' exepriences of temporality', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia, 03 December 2017 - 07 December 2017
,2017, 'Ranting, raving and complaining: reflections on speaking outside the orthodoxy', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education, Canberra, Australia, 03 December 2017 - 07 December 2017
,2017, 'The Principals Experiencing Time (PET) work: project design', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia, 03 December 2017 - 07 December 2017
,2017, 'The Principals' Experiencing Time (PET) work: theoretical resources', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia, 03 December 2017 - 07 December 2017
,2016, 'Outlining the research design of a relational project on principals' time use', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, 27 November 2016 - 01 December 2016
,2016, 'Problems and possibilities of a relational approach', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia, 27 November 2016 - 01 December 2016
,2016, 'Sketching a relational approach to principals' time use', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Melbourne, Victoria, 27 November 2016 - 01 December 2016
,2016, 'Theoretical notes on a relational approach to principals' time use', presented at American Educational Research Association - Principals' Time Use, Canberra, Australia, 31 July 2016 - 03 August 2016
,2015, 'Debunking 'leadership' through theory', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, 29 November 2015 - 03 December 2015
,2015, 'Thinking beyond 'leadership': towards a relational approach', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, 29 November 2015 - 03 December 2015
,2015, 'Building professional learning networks virtually: the growth of #acelchat', presented at Australian Council for Educational Leaders Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, 30 September 2015 - 02 October 2015
,2015, 'We need to talk about 'leadership'', presented at Australian Council for Educational Leadership Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, 30 September 2015 - 02 October 2015
,2014, 'Bringing a 'local' voice to a 'universal' discourse: school leadership preparation and development in Kenya', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 30 November 2014 - 04 December 2014
,2014, 'The principalship, autonomy and after', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 30 November 2014 - 04 December 2014
,2014, 'Beyond entity thinking: opening up educational leadership through relations', presented at Autonomy, School Leadership and Social Justice Symposium, 04 November 2014
,2014, 'Towards a relational approach to scholarship in educational leadership, management and administration', presented at 2nd Annual Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Theory Workshop, 03 July 2014 - 04 July 2014
,2013, 'School leadership preparation and development in Kenya', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 01 December 2013 - 05 December 2013
,2013, 'Using Indigenous management research to construct, deconstruct and reconstruct school leadership in Kenya', presented at Australian and New Zealand International and Comparative Education Society Conference, 27 November 2013 - 30 November 2013
,2013, 'Navigating the contemporary policy terrain: speaking back through our identity', presented at 6th Catholic Educational Leadership Conference, 16 August 2013
,2013, 'Leadership research as a political activity: the problems of 'letting the data speak for themselves'', presented at 1st Untested Ideas Center Conference, 18 June 2013
,2012, 'Educational administration and science: problematizing the intellectual gaze', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 02 December 2012 - 06 December 2012
,2012, 'Evaluating school leadership preparation and development in Kenya', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 02 December 2012 - 06 December 2012
,2012, 'Is it worth it? Investigating the return on school leadership preparation and development programmes', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 02 December 2012 - 06 December 2012
,2012, 'Leadership and the circulation of power in building capacity to improve pedagogy', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 02 December 2012 - 06 December 2012
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