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Karen is a lecturer in education leadership at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. Her teaching is focused around contemporary issues in educational leadership policy and practice in the pursuit of socially just societies. Her research interest are education governance and its relationship to configurations of leadership and school – community interactions.
Karen is also a Trustee for BELMAS and a member of BELMAS Blog editorial team. She was awarded best ECR Paper for BELMAS 2024 and Social Theory SIG commendation BERA 2024
We live in an era when the old-world order has passed but a new world order is yet to fully take shape: evocatively described by Antonio Gramsci as a time of monsters. Marked by profound global...
Internationally, the marketisation of schooling has re-imagined schools as businesses (Ball, 2017) calling for those with business skills take on the role of school governance (Wilkins, 2015)....
Continue reading blog postA recent National Governance Association (NGA, 2023a) report suggests that governor workload and lack of time are key contributors to the current crisis in the recruitment and retention of school...
Continue reading blog postA meeting place for the critical exploration of educational leadership – research, policy and practice - in the pursuit of social justice.
