Throughout my educational career I have been involved in researching policy, practice and reform in school communities as an educational leader, diagnostic school review evaluator, teacher, researcher and bureaucrat. I have worked in partnership with international, national and state educational organisations including:

• The Coaliton of Essential Schools (CES);
• The Australian Education Union (AEU);
• The University of South Australia (UniSA);
• Research Fellow on two Australian Research Council (ARC) projects in partnership with DfE and UniSA;
• Big Picture Education Australia (BPEA);
• The Department for Education (DfE) and;
• The Australian National Schools Network (ANSN).

In these partnerships I have led and facilitated professional development for new and experienced school leaders and managed and designed research projects with university academics, principals, preschool directors, departmental bureaucrats and teacher-leaders.

I work within the research traditions of phenomenology and critical policy sociology, foregrounding educational research in Leadership and Management: Policy, Politics and Practice.