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Direct linkCrawford, Megan – Educational Review, 2023
This article takes the author's personal experience of being a Head of Department (HOD) in an English University, and frames this experience as a transition narrative. The format draws on the work of Sandra Acker, who framed her own experience as a Head of Department in Canada, in three areas. Utilising literature both on Higher Education…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Universities, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Administration
Murphy, Mark; Curtis, Will – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
This study is based on interviews with 25 programme leaders at two universities in England. Programme leadership is ubiquitous and essential to effective university operations, yet there is surprisingly little research on the role. It is an ambiguous and complex form of leadership, existing as it does in the space between standard academic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Department Heads, Leadership, Leadership Role
Williams, Gareth Mark; Williams, Dean – School Leadership & Management, 2013
Utilising the labour ideas of Adam Smith and Emile Durkheim as a theoretical basis, the main objective of this study was to investigate the perception that Heads of Physical Education (HoPE) face unique management and leadership challenges. Results showed that HoPE believe that they are overburdened with tasks primarily involving the delegation of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Physical Education, Department Heads, School Administration
