Select Publications
Conference Presentations
, 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
, 2012, 'Principled principals: leading large-scale equity reforms in schools', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 02 December 2012 - 06 December 2012
, 2012, 'The consecration of experience in the field', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 02 December 2012 - 06 December 2012
, 2012, 'Beyond value and values: interrogating school leadership through Boltanski's economies of worth', presented at 17th Annual Values and Leadership Conference, 03 October 2012
, 2012, 'School leadership, public intellectualism and future schooling', presented at Australian Council for Educational Leaders Annual Conference, 01 October 2012
, 2011, 'School leadership practice: a Bourdieusian perspective', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 27 November 2011 - 01 December 2011
, 2010, 'Disrupting educational leadership discourse: bringing a critical edge', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 28 November 2010 - 02 December 2010
, 2010, 'Learning across boundaries: a partnership between the University of Newcastle and the Association of Teacher Education Institutions, Mindanao', presented at Australian Council for Educational Leaders Annual Conference, 29 September 2010 - 01 October 2010
, 2010, 'School leadership: Engaging in the conversation of the world?', presented at Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration Conference, 29 September 2010 - 01 October 2010
, 2009, 'New look leaders or a new look at leadership? Re-conceptualising the principalship for the future of Australian education', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 29 November 2009 - 03 December 2009
, 2008, 'Contemporary educational leadership as a panoptic process', presented at Australian Council for Educational Leaders Annual Conference, 30 September 2008 - 02 October 2008
, 2008, 'Sources for teaching leadership and administration: the Australian experience', presented at British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 03 September 2008 - 06 September 2008
, 2007, 'Strategy and the practising educational leader', presented at Directions for Catholic Educational Leadership in the 21st Century: The Vision, Challenges and Reality, 29 July 2007 - 01 August 2007
, 2007, 'Demographic proxies, strategy and educational leadership', presented at NSW Institute for Educational Research Conference, 01 June 2007
, 2007, 'An analysis of contemporary literature on strategy in education', presented at The University of Newcastle, School of Education Research Conference, 29 March 2007
, 2006, 'The strategic leadership behaviours of public primary school principals', presented at The University of Newcastle, School of Education Research Conference, 23 March 2006
, 2005, 'A framework for programming using quality teaching', presented at Pedagogy in Practice, 20 January 2005
Reports
, 2025, A socio-economic analysis of teacher housing in NSW, Housing Affordability and the Teacher Shortage (HATS) Research Program
, 2025, Public school education in Victoria. What the profession needs now for the future: housing affordability
, 2024, Building for the profession: teacher housing in NSW, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/30792
, 2024, Leading for equity and excellence through systemic design, UNESCO, http://dx.doi.org/10.54676/PYPF4493, https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000391684
, 2024, Options for essential worker housing in New South Wales, NSW Legislative Assembly Select Committee on Essential Worker Housing, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/30638, https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/ladocs/submissions/87599/Submission%2023%20-%20Professor%20Scott%20Eacott.pdf
, 2023, Rural and Regional Education Project: Final Report, Department of Education, https://www.gie.unsw.edu.au/rural-and-regional-education-project-final-report
, 2022, Building education systems for equity and inclusion, Gonski Institute for Education, Sydney, NSW, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28359
, 2022, Evaluation of Griffith Secondary School Reform - Final Report, Gonski Institute for Education, UNSW Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28400, https://murrumbidgee-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/doe/sws/schools/m/murrumbidgee-h/news/2022/7/final-report/Evaluation_of_Griffith_Secondary_School_Reform_-_Final_Report.pdf
, 2022, Montessori education in Australian schools: charting a path, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28143
, 2021, Steiner 2021: The curation of contemporary education, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28094, https://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/permalink/f/5gm2j3/unsworks_modsunsworks_77171
, 2021, High-impact school leadership in regional, rural and remote schools, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28010, https://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/permalink/f/5gm2j3/unsworks_modsunsworks_75297
, 2021, High-impact school leadership: case study 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28011
, 2021, High-impact school leadership: case study 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28009
, 2021, High-impact school leadership: case study 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28007
, 2021, High-impact school leadership: case study 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28014
, 2020, Attracting and retaining high impact school leaders and educators in regional, rural and remote schools. Report 1: Barriers and Challenges, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28006
, 2020, Attracting and retaining high impact school leaders and educators in regional, rural and remote schools. Report 3: Non-monetary Incentives, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28012
, 2020, Attracting and retaining high-impact school leaders and educators in regional, rural and remote schools. Report 2: High-Impact Leadership, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28008
, 2020, Evaluation of Griffith Secondary School Reform: Interim report year 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28013
, 2017, Evaluation of the UNSW Sydney, Beverly Hills Girls High School and South Sydney High School Professional Experience Hub School Program