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Robin Middlehurst, Director: Strategy, Research and International at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) and Professor of Higher Education at Kingston University, UK. She is seconded half-time from Kingston University to LFHE where her role involves establishing a research programme in support of the Leadership Foundation's work, reviewing and co-developing its overall strategy and ensuring that its activities reflect international practice and perspectives.
Her personal areas of research, teaching and consultancy include the nature and impact of change in higher education policy and practice with a particular focus on leadership and leadership development; governance and management; quality assurance and enhancement at national and international levels; ‘borderless higher education' and international HE strategy.
Robin has been influential in the establishment of both the LFHE and the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education. She co-directs the successful Top Management Programme for Higher Education, and contributes to leadership development programmes for a number of UK universities. Her consultancy and research clients include UNESCO, OECD, UUK, SCOP and the UK funding bodies.
'Transforming University Leadership: Concepts and Practice'
This session will explore different ways of conceptualizing leadership in Higher Education, based on newly published research commissioned by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education in the UK and the existing HIgher Education (and wider) literature on leadership. It will be linked to experiences of the practice of leadership in a range of HE contexts. A key question to be answered will be: "Are current models of leadership fit for purpose?"
Presentation: Robin Middlehurst - iPED2008