Postgraduate

Postgraduate study in History Education

Academic Staff

Course Director

Marianne Coleman
Marianne is the Course Director and a Senior Lecturer in Education Leadership and Management. She has written extensively in the field of leadership and management in education and has taken part in research projects in China and South Africa. Her main interest is in leadership, particularly women in leadership and management and also in practitioner research. Her research has also focused on school-based management and mentoring, particularly the mentoring of new head teachers.

Course Team

Peter Earley
Peter is Reader in Education Management and Head of the Management and Leadership Development Section at the Institute of Education. He is also a member of the International School Effectiveness and Improvement Centre at the Institute. A central research interest is leadership and he has recently completed studies of school leaders for the government, independent schools sector, and the National College for School Leadership. As well as school leadership and management, his research interests include school governing bodies, school inspection and self-evaluation, and professional development. He is also an external adviser to governing bodies, an area he is currently researching.

Jennifer Evans
Jennifer is a Senior Lecturer in Education Policy and Management. She is also co-director of the DFES ‘Diversity Pathfinders’ Project which is evaluating projects to encourage collaboration between specialist and non-specialist schools in 6 LEAs. Her interests include special educational needs policy and practice and she has worked on national and international projects.

Anne Gold
Anne is a Senior Lecturer in Education Management. Her teaching, research and consultancy interests are all in the area of educational management. She is concerned with developing management with people who work in schools and universities as middle managers or as senior managers. Her particular interest is women and management, and she works at encouraging more women into management in schools and higher education. Anne works nationally and internationally with schools, universities and boards and directorates of education.

Rosalind Levacic
Rosalind is Professor of Economics and Finance of Education. Her main research interests are school funding systems, financial and resource management of schools, and the relationships between school resourcing and student outcomes. Specific topics include school-based management, education production functions, school quasi-markets, specialist schools and cost effectiveness analysis applied to educational provision. Her work with the Centre for the Economics of Education is concerned with the relationship between school resources and student outcomes. She has worked as a consultant on school finance for internationally funded projects in Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and China.

Contributors

Lesley Anderson
Lesley is Director, Postgraduate Professional Development and Lecturer in History Education at the Open University. Her main research interests are policy and practice relating to the organisation of schools, and finance and resource management including human resource management.

Eileen Carnell
Eileen is a Senior Lecturer in Pastoral Care and Personal-Social Education. Her particular expertise is in effective learning, action research, professional development, consultation, group work, team and institutional development. She has contributed to a range of publications including research reports, journal articles, professional development materials and authored books.

Megan Crawford
Megan is a Senior Lecturer in the Leadership, Policy and Improvement Unit at the Institute of Education (University of Warwick). Her research interests include leadership, emotion, and online interaction for professional development.

Derek Glover
Derek is Course Director, MBA (Education) at Keele University and a research associate at the Institute of Education for development of distance learning for international audiences. He has written extensively in the areas of History Education .

Caroline Lodge
Caroline is a Senior Lecturer in School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Her special interests are learning in schools, teacher enquiry into learning in schools and school discourses of learning improvement.

David Oldroyd
Formerly a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol, David is a Polish-based Educational Development Consultant. He specialises in leadership and teacher development in transition countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Jon Pickering
Jon is a Lecturer in the School of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education and an Associate Director of the International School Effectiveness and Improvement Centre (ISEIC). He is also module leader for the Research and Professional Practice module on the Master of Teaching, an innovative Masters course for newly and recently qualified teachers. Formerly a secondary deputy head teacher and an adviser in the London Borough of Southwark, he is particularly interested in the relationship between leadership and the managing of educational change and the impact of leadership on the development of learning communities in schools.

Pamela Sammons
Pam is Professor of Education, Co-ordinating Director and Research Project Director at The International School Effectiveness and Improvement Centre, Institute of Education. Her main areas of research are in the two related fields of school effectiveness and improvement. During the last 20 years she has been involved in school effectiveness and improvement research at both the primary and secondary level. Consultancy work has been conducted for the National Education Agency in Sweden (Skolverket), the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED), the Department of Education Northern Ireland and a number of UK LEAs.

Marian Shaw
Marian is a Consultant in Educational Management, mainly working in international contexts. Her main area of interest (practical, writing and research) is in the transference of management theories and models across cultures. She recently developed and led the Policy, Planning and Management track on the MA for International Schools at Oxford Brookes University.

External Advisor

Raymond Bolam
Ray is Course External Adviser and is Emeritus Professor of Education in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University and a Visiting Professor in the Departments of Education at the Universities of Bath and Leicester. His research and publications have focused on school leadership, professional development, school improvement and the management of change. He is currently co-directing a study on 'Creating and Sustaining Effective Professional Learning Communities' in schools. He has acted as consultant to the UNESCO, the OECD, the British Council, and the European Commission as well as to governments and national and international agencies in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.