Developing Leadership

Martin Coles and Geoff Southworth are both at the National College

for School Leadership (NCSL), Nottingham.

Raymond Bolam 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. H has also held Chairs in Education at Cardiff and Swansea Universities, 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. His research and publications have focused on school leadership, professional development, school improvement and the management of change. He is currently co-directing a nationally funded study on 'Creating and Sustaining Effective Professional Learning Communities' in schools.

Gary M. Crow is Professor and Chair in the Department of Educational Leadership at The University of Utah (USA). His research interests include work socialization of school site leaders and school reform. His most recent, co-authored, book is Being and Becoming a Principal. He is president-elect of the University Council for Educational Administration.



Clive Dimmock is Professor of Educational Leadership and Director of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management, University of Leicester. He has published extensively in the areas of cultural and cross-cultural approaches to leadership and school improvement, and has an abiding interest in Asian education and the leadership of multi-ethnic schools in both Anglo-American and Asian contexts.

Dean Fink is a former superintendent and principal in Ontario, Canada, an associate of the International Centre for Educational Change at the University of Toronto, and a visiting a fellow of the International Leadership Centre at the University of Hull. His most recent book is It's About Learning and It's About Time (with Louise Stoll and Lorna Earl).

Dr. Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at

the Lynch School of Education, Boston College. Prior to that, he was

Professor of Educational Leadership and Change at the University of

Nottingham, England and Co-director of and Professor in the

International Centre for Educational Change at the Ontario Institute

for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is holder

of the Canadian Education Association/Whitworth 2000 Award for

outstanding contributions to educational research. Andy Hargreaves is

the author and editor of more than twenty books in the fields of

teacher development, the culture of the school and educational change.

His most recent book, Teaching In The Knowledge Society: education in

the age of insecurity, was given the 2004 Outstanding Book Award in curriculum studies by the American Educational Research Association.

Bill Mulford, Professor and Director of the Leadership for Learning Research Group in the Faculty of Education at the University of Tasmania. Bill is a former teacher, school principal, Assistant Director of Education and Past President and of both national and international professional associations in educational administration,. He is an adviser to state and national Departments of Education and a consultant to international organisations.

Dr. Fred Paterson is Senior Research Officer for the National College for School Leadership and 'lead enquirer' for the New Visions programme. Previously, Fred worked as an educational researcher at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, an advisory teacher and a primary practitioner in Nottinghamshire.

Tony Richardson, Director of Online Learning. The National College for School Leadership (NCSL). Tony has been a primary headteacher, an education adviser specialising in Information and Communications Technology, a senior primary adviser an