Peter Gronn
Position/Status
- Professor of Education
E-mail Address
pg348@cam.ac.uk
Phone
(+44) 01223 767517
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) (Melbourne)
- DipEd (Melbourne)
- BEd (Monash)
- PhD (Monash)
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
- Fellow of Hughes Hall
- Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA)
- Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders (FACEL)
- Member, Academy of Management
- Member, British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society
Profile
Peter Gronn is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, where he is a member of the Leading Learning for School Improvement (LLSI) group. Previously, he was Professor in Public Service, Educational Leadership and Management, Department of Educational Studies, University of Glasgow (2007-8). Prior to his arrival in the UK, he held a personal chair appointment as Professor of Education, Monash University (2003-7). While at Monash, he served as Associate Dean (Teaching) (1999-2000), and as Associate Dean (Development) (2002-2004) in the Faculty of Education. He also co-ordinated the Masters coursework degrees in leadership, as part of which he developed and extended the Faculty's teaching profile to the FE, police and corporate sectors, and to public sector professionals in Singapore.
Peter Gronn has had extensive research experience in government and non-government school systems, and with public sector agencies in Australia and the UK. He is a leading international scholar in the general field of leadership, and specifically in educational and school leadership. He is the author of over 120 publications. A number of his recent writings have been on distributed leadership and new ways of mapping leadership practice. His most recent book is The New Work of Educational Leaders (London: Sage/Paul Chapman, 2003). In 2005-6 Peter Gronn acted as a consultant to the Australian Council for Educational Research on the project 'Standards for School Leadership' and in 2006-7 he co-authored the Country Background Report for Australia which formed part of the OECD international project on school leadership. He has participated in a number of invited seminars and think tanks on leadership succession and development planning, and future directions in the field (e.g., Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio; National College for School Leadership; Centre for Creative Leadership, Greensboro; Leadership Foundation for Higher Education; NYU Wagner, Research Center for Leadership in Action).
Peter Gronn is currently a member of the following refereed journal editorial boards and international advisory boards:
- Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability in Education
- Australian Journal of Education
- Educational Administration Quarterly
- Educational Management, Administration and Leadership
- International Journal of Leadership in Education
- Journal of Educational Administration and History
- Leadership and Organization Development Journal
- Leadership and Policy in Schools
- Leadership
- Leadership Quarterly
- School Leadership and Management
- Biographical Encyclopedia of Educational Thought (London: Continuum)
- Founding editor: Leading and Managing.
Academic Area/Links
Recent research topics have included:
- Leadership configurations
- Distributed leadership
- Distributed leadership in schools
- Hybrid leadership practice
- The cult of heroism in leadership
- Leadership development and succession
- Engagement with and disengagement from leadership
- Head teacher recruitment and retention
- Impact of school autonomy policies
- School improvement
Current Research Project(s)
- Autonomy in English secondary schools
- Distributed leadership practice
- Aspirant school principals
- Principal recruitment in Australia
- Recruitment and retention of Scottish head teachers
- Coaching for head teacher development in Scotland
Course Involvement
- M Ed: Educational Leadership for School Improvement
- M Phil: Educational Research
- Supervision of Ph D students
Principal Publications (2004-9)
Gronn, P. (2009) Leadership configurations, Leadership, 5(3): 1-13.
Gronn, P. (2009) Where to next for educational leadership?, in T. Bush, L. Bell and D. Middlewood (Eds), The Principles of Educational Leadership and Management (London: Sage). (in press)
Gronn, P. (2009) From distributed to hybrid leadership practice, in A. Harris (Ed.) Distributed School Leadership: Different Perspectives (Dordrecht: Kluwer). (in press)
Gronn, P. (2009) The educational leader's new work, in B. McGaw, E. Baker and P.P. Peterson (Eds), International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd edition (Oxford: Elsevier). (in press)
Gronn, P. (2009) Immaculate consummation: Learning meets leadership, International Journal of Leadership in Education, 12(3):311-318.
Gronn, P. (2009) Review of M. Brundrett & M. Crawford (Eds), Developing School Leaders: An International Perspective, British Journal of Educational Studies, 57(1): 96-98.
Woods, P. A. and Gronn, P. (2009) Nurturing democracy: The contribution of distributed leadership to a democratic organizational landscape, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, 37(4): 430-451.
Gronn, P. (2008) The state of Denmark, Journal of Educational Administration and History, 40(2): 173-185.
Gronn, P. (2008) The future of distributed leadership, Journal of Educational Administration, 46(2): 141-158.
Davidson, J., Forde, C., Gronn, P., MacBeath, J., Martin, M. and McMahon, M. (2008) Towards a 'Mixed Economy' of Head Teacher Development, Final Report of the Evaluation of the Flexible Routes to Headship Pilot (Edinburgh: Scottish Government), 78 pp.
Gronn, P. (2008) Hybrid leadership, in K. Leithwood, B. Mascall and T. Strauss (Eds) Distributed Leadership according to the Evidence (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum), pp. 17-40.
Gronn, P. (2008) Hayek, learning and leadership, in E. Samier (Ed.) The Politics of Educational Administration (London: Routledge), pp. 73-88.
Gronn, P. (2008) Emotional engagement with leadership, in E. Samier and M. Schmidt (Eds), Emotional Dimensions of Educational Administration and Leadership (London: Routledge), pp. 198-211.
Gronn, P. (2007) Global diffusion of knowledge, in K. Christensen and D. Levinson (Eds), Exploring Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations, vol 3 (Great Barrington, Mass: Berkshire Publishing Group), pp. 81-84.
Gronn, P. (2007) Grooming next-generation school leaders, in N. Dempster (Ed.), The Treasure Within: Leadership and Succession Planning,Yearbook of the Australian College of Educators (Canberra: ACE), pp. 7-19.
Gronn, P. (2007) Interviewing leaders: Penetrating the romance, in M. Coleman and A. Briggs (Eds) Research Methods in Educational Leadership and Management, 2nd edition (London: Sage), pp. 189-204.
Gronn, P. (2007) The principal and distributed leadership, Learning Matters, 12(2): 33-35.
Lacey, K. and Gronn, P. (2007) Letting go: Former principals reflect on their role exit. Centre for Strategic Education, Seminar series, no. 163 (CSE: Jolimont, Vic).
Anderson, M., Gronn, P., Ingvarson, L., Jackson, A., Kleinhenz, E., McKenzie, P., Mulford, B. and Thornton, N. (2007) Australia: Country Background Report - OECD Improving School Leadership Activity. A report prepared for the Australian Government, Department of Education, Science and Training (Camberwell: ACER), 79 pp.
Gronn, P. (2006) Aesthetics, heroism and the cult of 'the leader', in E. Samier and R.J. Bates (Eds), Aesthetic Dimensions of Educational Administration and Leadership (London: Routledge), pp. 191-205.
Gronn, P. (2006) The significance of distributed leadership, Educational Leadership Research, 7. http://slc.educ.ubc.ca/eJournal/Issue7/index7.html
Gronn, P. and Lacey, K. (2006) Cloning their own: Aspirant principals and the school-based selection game, Australian Journal of Education, 50(2): 102-121.
Lacey, K. and Gronn, P. (2006) Juggling crystal balls, Principia (February): 4-8; also published in Leadership in Focus, 2 (Winter): 20-24.
Day, D.V., Gronn, P. and Salas, E. (2006) Leadership in team-based organizations: On the threshold of a new era, Leadership Quarterly, 17(3): 211-216.
Ingvarson, L., Anderson, M., Jackson, A., Thornton, N. and Gronn, P. (2006) Standards for School Leadership: Final Report (Melbourne: ACER/Teaching Australia), 37 pp.
Ingvarson, L., Anderson, M., Gronn, P. and Jackson, A. (2006) Standards for School Leadership: A Critical Review of Literature (Melbourne: ACER/Teaching Australia), 143 pp.
Gronn, P. (2005) Questions about autobiographical leadership, Leadership, 1(4): 481-490.
Gronn, P. (2005) Corporal punishment, in Brown-May, A. and Swain, S. (Eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press), p. 174.
Gronn, P. (2005) Head of the river, in Brown-May, A. and Swain, S. (Eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press), p. 329.
Gronn, P. (2005) School sport, in Brown-May, A. and Swain, S. (Eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press), p. 677.
Allix, N. and Gronn, P. (2005) 'Leadership' as a manifestation of knowledge, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, 33(2): 181-196.
Ingvarson, L., Anderson, M., Gronn, P. and Jackson, A. (2005) Standards for School Leadership Project: Issues Paper and Consultation Questionnaire (Melbourne: ACER/NIQTSL), 23 pp.
Gronn, P. (2004) Review of A Great Australian School: Wesley College Examined, by A. Lemon, Victorian Historical Journal, 75(2): 251-253.
Gronn, P. (2004) Distribution of leadership, in G.R. Goethals, G.J. Sorenson and J. MacGregor Burns (Eds), Encyclopedia of Leadership, Vol 1 (Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage), pp. 351-355.
Gronn, P. (2004) Methodologies of leadership research, in G.R. Goethals, G.J. Sorenson and J. MacGregor Burns (Eds), Encyclopedia of Leadership, Vol 3 (Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage), pp. 995-1000.
Gronn, P. and Hamilton, A. (2004) 'A bit more life in the leadership': Co-principalship as distributed leadership practice, Leadership and Policy in Schools, 3(1): 3-35.
Gronn, P. and Lacey, K. (2004) Positioning oneself for leadership: Feelings of vulnerability among aspirant principals, School Leadership and Management, 24(4): 405-424.
Lacey, K. and Gronn, P. (2004) Watch this space: Forthcoming research on leadership aspirations of Australian teachers, Curriculum Leadership, 2(11): 1-2. http://cms.curriculum.edu.au/leader/newcms_articles.asp?item_id=12375
Day, D., Gronn, P. and Salas, E. (2004) Leadership capacity in teams, Leadership Quarterly 15(6): 857-880.
Gronn, P., Allix, N. and Penna, C. (2004) 'Part of a Wheel?': An Evaluation of the Police Schools Involvement Program, Contracted report presented to Crime Prevention Victoria (Monash University: Faculty of Education), 105 pp.