Megan Crawford

Position/Status

Reader

E-mail Address

mpc52@cam.ac.uk

Phone

01223 767699

Qualifications
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

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Profile

Dr Megan Crawford is a member of the Leadership for Learning academic group in the Faculty of Education. Megan’s teaching and research within the educational leadership field encompasses the areas of professional development e.g. leadership preparation, culture, and emotion and leadership, as well as school governance, e-learning development in HE, and assessment. She co-directed the evaluation of the London Leadership Strategy, and the evaluation of the NPQH Pilot (both for the National College), and was a member of the Staff Development Outcomes Project team. She is on the national committee on school governance for the Education and Employers Taskforce, and has set up a specialist research group on school governance with Prof Chris James from the University of Bath. Current research activity includes the ongoing International Study of the Preparation of Principals Project (ISPP); the effects of academies and free schools policy on local governance of education; and sustainability and educational leadership.

Megan is an Associate Editor of the international, ISI indexed journal ‘Educational Management, Administration and Leadership’ and is on the Editorial Board of’ Primary 3-13’. She was formerly Deputy Editor of ‘School Leadership and Management’. Megan is very involved in governing Schools, and was the Teaching Awards Governor of the Year, East of England, in 2009/10. She has been a governor of five schools, and is Chair of Governors at Oakgrove School, Milton Keynes. She was on the Board of Governors of the IOE, London and Oxford Brookes University. Her work in Higher Education builds on these current experiences as well as previous experiences as a teacher and leader in primary education.

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Research Topics

Prospective PhD Applications

Megan would welcome informal contact from prospective PhD or EdD students on any of the research topics mentioned above. She teaches on the Masters and doctoral programmes, and has worked extensively on the professional doctorate in previous posts. She particularly enjoys working with doctoral students. Previous doctoral students have completed theses in the areas of:

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Course Involvement

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Recent Publications

Crawford, M (2009) ‘Getting to the heart of leadership: emotion and the educational leader’ (2009) Sage/Paul Chapman

Crawford, M (2011) ‘Why Affect matters in leadership’ in Robertson, J, and Timperley, H. Issues in School Leadership, Sage, London

Crawford, M (2011) ‘Not what I bargained for’, in New Primary Leaders, (2011)Cowie, M (ed), Continuum

Crawford, M (2011) Emotion and the leader in ‘Educational Leadership and Management:  Developing Skills and Insights’, Coleman, M and Glover D.(eds),(2010) Open University Press

Crawford, M (2011) ‘Rationality and Emotions’ in Day, C and Chi-kin Lee (eds) (2011)‘New Understandings of Teacher education: Emotions and educational change’, Springer

Crawford, M (2009) ‘Emotional Coherence and the Team' , in Samier E. et al, ‘Emotions in Education, RoutledgeFalmer

Cowie, M. and Crawford, M. (2009) Perspectives on ‘becoming’ and ‘being’ a headteacher, Confluences of identity, knowledge and practice: building interpersonal social capital: ESCRC Seminar 4 proceedings. Research Paper 20, School of Education, University of Aberdeen.

Crawford, M., Earley, P., Weindling, D. and Jones, J. (2009). 'An Evaluation Study of the Redesigned NPQH: A powerful guiding vision for the program'. National College.

Cowie, M. and Crawford, M. (2009) ‘Being a new principal in Scotland’, Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 46 : 6, pp.676 – 689

Brundrett, M. and Crawford, M (eds) (2008) 'Developing School Leaders: an International Perspective', London RoutledgeFalmer

Cowie, M. and Crawford, M. (2007) ‘Principal preparation: still an act of faith?’ School Leadership and Management, 27 (2), pp. 129-146