Research centre

Leadership, Effective Education and Policy (LEEP)

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We bring together colleagues to research the areas of leadership, school improvement, educational effectiveness and policy.

Part of Education

About

We aim to influence policy, practice and research methodology across a range of educational contexts and sectors. This includes schools, further education and higher education.  

With the support of government agencies, charities and research councils, we have had leading roles in advising policy-makers across the world.
 
LEEP's main research interests are:  

  • educational effectiveness
  • management, leadership and improvement
  • employment policy, lifelong learning and the labour market
  • teacher training and teacher effectiveness
  • equity, equality and competition

  
Our research is informed by our focus on:  

  • advanced quantitative methods
  • qualitative approaches, including case-studies of educational organisations
  • policy
  • social network analysis
  • randomised control trials
  • conceptual testing

Members perform roles including journal editing, serving on editorial boards and taking leadership roles within the academic community.

People, projects and publications

People

Dr James Hall CPsychol, AFBPsS, FHEA, FRSA

Associate Prof. Psychology of Education

Research interests

  • Early Childhood Education and Care
  • Developmental Psychopathology
  • Educational Effectiveness

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Miss Jiayi Cen

Research interests

  • Creativity
  • Educational measurement and evaluation
  • Game-based assessment and learning
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Professor John Schulz PhD, BA (Hons), Assoc Dip Bio.

Professorial Fellow-Education

Research interests

  • e-Learning
  • Video-based learning
  • Online learning

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Maria Kaparou

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Educational leadership and management, particularly focused on instructional leadership/Leadership for Learning; leadership and management for school improvement within MATs;
  • Education policy;
  • School improvement;

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Martin Dyke PhD, MSc, BA (hons), PGCE.

Professorial Fellow Education

Research interests

  • Lifelong Learning and Work-related Learning
  • Experiential Learning
  • Technology Enhanced Learning

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Michael Tomlinson

Professor

Research interests

  • Education, employment and employability
  • Transitions from education to work
  • Career capitals and resources

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Nicola Pensiero

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Educational inequalities
  • Social stratification
  • Social Theory

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Nora McIntyre PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Educational effectiveness
  • Educational technology
  • Innovative research methods: eye-tracking, big data

Accepting applications from PhD students

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My research interests include educational effectiveness and improvement, and the development and use of value-added progress measures in education.
Professor of Education