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Conference Presentations
, 2025, 'Housing and the teacher workforce', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, University of Newcastle, 30 November 2025 - 04 December 2025
, 2025, 'Influencing policy with data and evidence from education research', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, University of Newcastle, 30 November 2025 - 04 December 2025
, 2025, 'Housing Affordability and the Teacher Shortage: Evidence from Australian Cities', presented at International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Melbourne, 10 February 2025 - 14 February 2025
, 2024, 'Housing affordability and the teacher shortage in Australian capital cities', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), 01 December 2024 - 05 December 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/30816
, 2024, 'Introducing the Housing Affordability and the Teacher Shortage (HATS) lab', presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), 01 December 2024 - 05 December 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/30817
, 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
, 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