Professor Jacky Lumby CertEd, MA, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Professor Lumby is an Emeritus Professor of Education with a primary focus on leading for equity in all parts of the education system worldwide.
Professor Lumby's main interests are in educational leadership and management, particularly focused on how some learners and staff may be excluded. This has led her to engage with issues of diversity, gender and power. She is concerned to explore how leaders can be supported to lead people, systems and processes which offer success to all learners and staff in the context of living a life they value. Her work encompasses a range of perspectives, including critical theory and comparative and international perspectives. She is interested in challenging the assumption of the appropriateness of Western-derived concepts, theories and practice in different cultures and in an increasingly diverse UK culture. She has researched and published widely on the leadership and management of schools and colleges in the UK, Ireland, China, Hong Kong and South Africa.
She has published books on equality, diversity and leadership (with Dr Marianne Coleman), on the way language is used to describe and develop leadership (with Professor Fenwick English) and on the language of policy (with Professor Daniel Muijs).
Professor Lumby entered higher education after a long and varied involvement with education, having taught and led in secondary schools, adult and community and further education She also worked in a Training and Enterprise Council with responsibility for the development of managers in both business and education, managing a network which allowed the cross-fertilisation of skills and experience from education into business and vice versa.
She is co editor of two international handbooks on leader preparation and development.
Awards and Memberships
- Distinguished Service Award, British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society
- EMAL Best New Paper Award, Winner 2019 Best Overall Paper Lumby, J. (2017) Distributed leadership and bureaucracy. Educational Management Administration & Leadership. 47 (1): 5-19.