We are publishing the report of the UK Leadership Survey today. You can read and download the full report on our Publications page. The findings reveal the intense pressures faced by school leaders, for example almost half of senior school leaders across the UK say they feel burned out “often”, making more urgent questions about … Continue reading UK Leadership Survey Report Published
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Project Progress – Surveys, Case Studies and a lot of thinking.
Closing the Sustainable School Leadership Survey at the end of January marked a significant milestone for our project. We have now completed all our planned data collection. The survey received a good response from leaders across the UK with over 1600 completing it and we’re now looking in detail at the responses with analysis well … Continue reading Project Progress – Surveys, Case Studies and a lot of thinking.
Introducing the UK Sustainable School Leadership Survey
In this post we introduce the UK Sustainable School Leadership Survey and why it’s important. What do school leaders in each UK nation spend most time on during their working weeks? What professional development and support do they receive and how well do they think it prepares them for their roles? How do they describe … Continue reading Introducing the UK Sustainable School Leadership Survey
Locality Case Study: Scotland – City
Mike Collins and Tom Perry summarise what they heard when they visited Scotland-City Our discussions with educational leaders in Scotland-City took place in the early part of 2024 and the visit was the first of our Locality Case Studies in Scotland. We interviewed 16 leaders who were a mixture of Local Leaders, Heads and Deputes, … Continue reading Locality Case Study: Scotland – City
Locality Case Study: England – City
Mike Collins and Tom Perry summarise what they heard in interviews with Educational Leaders in England - City We visited England-City in late Autumn 2023 and the early part of 2024. In total, we interviewed nearly 30 Local Leaders, headteachers and senior leads in City, either individually or in small groups. We also observed several … Continue reading Locality Case Study: England – City
Our first Locality Case Study: Northern Ireland – Coast
Mike Collins and Toby Greany summarise the themes they heard in interviews with educational leaders in Northern Ireland -Coast Introducing Northern Ireland Coast Northern Ireland – Coast is overall one of the more affluent of the 11 Local Council areas in NI, although there are deprived communities within it. The coastline is dotted with villages … Continue reading Our first Locality Case Study: Northern Ireland – Coast
Looking at Localities
This post discusses our approach to using case studies to explore sustainable school leadership. Understanding the realities of school leadership in the UK now, together with how it is being sustained in practice, is at the heart of our research. In this post, we want to introduce our case studies of local areas. We’re … Continue reading Looking at Localities
Developing our thinking tools: time
Our research is concerned with sustainability....We will make sense of the term sustainability by reading the literatures to see what other people have said, through our empirical case studies and interviews, and through doing targeted analyses of data. One of the issues we’ve been grappling with is time.
Getting underway with the Researching Sustainable School Leadership project
Getting started on any large and complex research study means grappling with strategic and conceptual questions. Our questions include: How should we conceptualise leadership? What makes leadership sustainable? How should we assess and compare the experience of leaders within and between the four UK nations? But we also have more prosaic but equally important questions, … Continue reading Getting underway with the Researching Sustainable School Leadership project
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