Professor of Educational Policy, Democracy and Leadership, University of Hertfordshire, UK.

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Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2020).

 

Distinguished Service Award, British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS); former Chair of BELMAS. ​

 

Author of more than 130 publications, my work focuses principally on education, democracy, leadership, policy and governance, with special attention to democratic and distributed leadership, equity, and change towards more democratic and holistic organisational environments.

 

Projects include European Arts-based Development of Distributed Leadership and Innovation in Schools (ENABLES, 2019-2021); Developing Collaborative and Democratic Leadership; Philosophical Investigations of Partnership (PIP); European Methodological Framework for Facilitating Collaborative Learning for Teachers (EFFeCT, 2015-2018); and European Policy Network on School Leadership (EPNoSL, 2011-2015).