Are school leaders thriving, surviving or sinking during the pandemic?
The third research project
In mid 2022 we obtained funding from CAPE to run ten roundtables with key stakeholders. We asked what could be done to improve school leaders work and well being.
what can we do?
The roundtable generated a number of examples of good practice. We followed some of these up. These examples show that it is possible for people to take some constructive actions at the local and national levels.
We also conducted a literature review which focused on international literatures on school leader recruitment, retention and sustainability.
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new school leader research project
In December 2022 we were informed that we had won a large ESRC to continue to research leaders work and well being. The new project runs until end November 2025, and is called Sustainable School Leadership: Comparing Approaches to the Training, Supply and Retention of Senior School Leaders Across the UK. Project summary You can…
Thriving, surviving or sinking? ‘Leading after Lockdown’ 2022 survey results
In the summer term 2021 we surveyed school leaders in England, asking about their experiences of the pandemic. At that time, just over a third (35%) said they had been ‘mostly’ or ‘sometimes’ thriving, including 11% who had been ‘mostly thriving’. The largest group, just over two in five (42%), said they had been ‘mostly…
Does the school system have long Covid?
We are currently finalising the report for the second phase of our Leading in Lockdown research. Integral to this stage of the research were interviews with 42 Assistant and Deputy Headteachers in primary and secondary schools. We asked them about their experiences of the pandemic and how it has impacted on their workload, well-being and…
What do we know about the current school leadership labour market?
We are currently finalising the report for the second phase of our Leading in Lockdown research, due for launch in early June. Our project partners, the NAHT, released figures provided by the DfE based on the School Workforce Census (SWC) this week. These show that the number of headteachers under 50 who left the profession…
School Leaders' Work and Well Being 