Professional Learning & Leadership

Research Activity

Currently Funded and In Progress

Osborne, M. and Townsend, T. University Leadership for Community Response to the European Green Agenda (ULCREGA).  Funding source European Union – Tempus project (1,144,105 €)

Townsend, T., Pisapia, J and Pang, N. A comparison of Strategic Thinking and Strategic Leadership in the Public and Private Sector in the United Kingdom. ESRC Small Grant (£100,000)

Future Plans

Townsend, T., Mountford, M. and Alsbury, T. International Survey on School Governance (surveys of members of Local Authorities and Chief Education Officers)

Recent Publications

Bogotch, I., Townsend, T. and Acker-Hocevar, M. (2010) ‘Leadership in the Implementation of Innovations’ in The International Encyclopaedia of Education, 3rd Edition, Elsevier, New York.

Townsend, T. (2009) ‘Third Millennium Leaders: Thinking and Acting both Locally and Globally’, Leadership and Policy in Schools, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp.355-379.

Townsend, T. (2008) ‘Towards a worldclass education system: accountability and responsibility’, International Journal of. Management in Education, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp.249–270.

Townsend, T. and Bogotch, I. (2008) The Elusive What and the Problematic How: The Essential Leadership Questions for School Leaders and Educational Researchers, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam and Taiwan, 240p.

Townsend, T and Bogotch, I. (2008) ‘Change Over Time: From Knowing to Doing’ in Townsend, T. and Bogotch, I. The Elusive What and the Problematic How: The Essential Leadership Questions for School Leaders and Educational Researchers, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam and Taiwan, p 215-229.

Bogotch, I. and Townsend, T (2008) ‘What are the essential leadership questions in a rapidly changing world?’ in Townsend, T. and Bogotch, I. The Elusive What and the Problematic How: The Essential Leadership Questions for School Leaders and Educational Researchers, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam and Taiwan, p 3-15.