CEL Research Summaries

 

The following are Research Summaries currently available in hard copy from the Centre for Excellence in Leadership. The summaries are available here in PDF format:

Explicating Leadership - introductory research summary on ethnography, ethnomethodology and how our project has ‘explicated’ leadership in the learning and skills sector.

Storytelling and Leadership – summary on the value of stories and storytelling for doing leadership research and building bridges between research, CEL programme design and the working lives of practitioners within the sector.

Leadership and Emotional Labour - summary draws attention to the valuing practices of leaders – the day-to-day actions and words through which they seek to demonstrate the value they attach to the work of their staff.

Leadership as Mundane Work – uses the rich data from the project to provide detailed descriptions of mundane leadership work as it occurs in the daily life of a college.

Technologies of Leadership – examining the role of technologies and systems in the everyday accomplishment of leadership work and the impact of the audit culture on the everyday practices of senior managers in FE.

Bureaucracy and Leadership – summary describes and comments on the policy and practice surrounding the recent the ‘war on bureaucracy’ in the Learning and Skills Sector.