Critical Education Policy Researcher
I am Professor Emerita in The Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK. I undertake research in education policy and educational leadership. I am a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2010), and recipient of the BELMAS Distinguished Service Award (2016).
My research focuses on the knowledge production and the politics of education policy, with particular attention to the field of educational leaders, leading and leadership.
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/helen.gunter.html
2021: Understanding Educational Leadership
2020: reporting research into Arendtian scholarship and education
2020: reporting comparative research into consultants.
2018: reporting research into reforms of public education using Arendtian scholarship.
2018: reporting research into theorising in educational leadership.
2017: reporting research that maps consultants and their impact on education.
2017: reporting research into the impact of corporate elites on public education
2016: reporting research into the meaning and practice of educational leadership
2016: reporting research into NPM in education.
2014: reporting research into educational leadership
2014: reporting accounts of undertaking research
2012: reporting research into how and why educational leadership became so important
2012: reporting research on the reforms to higher education
2011: reporting research into academies
2010: reporting research into inequality in higher education
2010: reporting research into poverty and education
2009: reporting research about the field
2009: reporting research into educational reforms
2007: reporting research into the reforms of educational professionals
2005: reporting research into teachers as leaders
2001: reporting researching into school leadership
1999: reporting research by headteachers about doing their job
1997: reporting research into the state of the field
Knowledge production and education policy
Knowledge production, schools, professionals and children
Knowledge production and educational leadership
Knowledge production and research
Knowledge production and segregated education
Education Blogs 2020
2020: Could Dido Harding move into education next? https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/could-dido-harding-move-into-education-next With CEPOL Team 2020: Five education myths that Covid-19 shatters https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/five-education-myths-that-covid-19-shatters With CEPOL Team
2019: Five ways in which Edu-Exit was the test run for Brexit https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/five-ways-in-which-edu-exit-was-the-test-run-for-brexit
2017: Anarchist Tendencies in Distributed Leadership? http://blogging2.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/mie/anarchist-tendencies-in-distributed-leadership/ 2017: Thinking about Education Policy Research https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/thinking-about-education-policy-research
2016: Grammar schools and Downton Abbey politics http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2016/09/grammar-schools-and-downton-abbey-politics/ 2016: A mimicry of the public school: grammar schools never went away, but they should have. With Steven J Courtney. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-mimicry-of-the-public-school-grammar-schools-never-went-away-but-they-should-have/
019: Five ways in which Edu-Exit was the test run for Brexit https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/five-ways-in-which-edu-exit-was-the-test-run-for-brexit 2017: Anarchist Tendencies in Distributed Leadership? http://blogging2.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/mie/anarchist-tendencies-in-distributed-leadership/ 2017: Thinking about Education Policy Research https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/thinking-about-education-policy-research 2016: Grammar schools and Downton Abbey politics http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2016/09/grammar-schools-and-downton-abbey-politics/ 2016: A mimicry of the public school: grammar schools never went away, but they should have. With Steven J Courtney. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-mimicry-of-the-public-school-grammar-schools-never-went-away-but-they-should-have/ 2015: Post 2015 general election thoughts… https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/post-2015-general-election-thoughts
Editing: Journal of Educational Administration and History
Editing: Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education