Christopher Day is Professor of Education and member of the Centre for Research on Educational Leadership and Management (CRELM).

He is also Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Sydney, Australia; Chair Professor of Educational Leadership, Beijing Normal University, China.

 

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

During the last twenty years, he has led and continues to lead national, European and international research and development projects in the areas of teachers' work and lives and school leadership and to collaborate in these with colleagues in Europe, North and South America, China and Australasia, including invited keynote addresses at several national and international conferences.His abiding interests remain in teacher quality, school leadership, improvement and effectiveness; and, within these, understanding how schools, school networks and universities may provide effective management and support for teachers' and principals' long-term professional development, wellbeing and effectiveness through research and teaching.

 

EDITORSHIPS

He is Editor-in-Chief of 'Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice' (TTTP); and a member of the Editorial Boards of The British Educational Research Journal (BERJ), Teaching and Teacher Education (TATE), and the Journal of Educational Administration (JEA).

 

RESEARCH

His national research projects include research on variations in teachers' work, lives and effectiveness; the evaluation of school based continuing professional development; the impact of the leadership of improving and effective schools on pupil outcomes; leading schools in challenging urban contexts; effective classroom teaching; and teacher and school resilience. Recent international projects include a 9 country European project on the work of principals of successful schools in challenging urban contexts; a two country project on policy enactment; and an International Baccalaureate schools' project on the leadership of the primary years programme.He is currently directing an 20 country international research network on successful school principalship (ISSPP).

 

PUBLICATIONS

His books have been published in several languages and include:Teachers Worlds and Work: Understanding Complexity, Building Quality (2017);A Decade of International Research on School Leadership (2016);Successful School Leadership: Lessons from the Field (2014); Resilient Teachers, Resilient Schools(2014); The International Handbook of Teacher and School development (2012) ; New Understandings of Teachers' Work: Emotions and Educational Change (2011);Successful School Leadership: Linking with Learning and Achievement (2011); The New Lives of Teachers (2009) Teachers Matter (2007) Open University Press; Successful Principalship: International Perspectives (2007); A Passion for Teaching (2004); International Handbook of the Continuing Professional Development of Teachers (2004);. Effective Leadership for School Improvement (2003) ; Theory and Practice in Action Research (2002) (Co-edited) Oxford, Symposium Books; Developing Teachers: The Challenges of Lifelong Learning (Falmer Press, 1999).

His is Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University and Visiting Professor at the InHolland University, The Netherlands.

 

HONOURS

In recognition of his work internationally in the field of continuing professional development for teachers, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linkoping, Sweden, in 1993 and, in 2010, the Michael Huberman Award for Excellence in Research on Teachers by the American Educational Research Association.In 2009, he was awarded a D.Litt by the University of Nottingham and in 2012 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

 

RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION

Christopher Day supervises research students working for research degrees in these areas: School Leadership and Change; Teachers' Work and Lives; Continuing Professional Development; Leadership; Teacher Thinking; Reflection; Qualitative Research; Action Research; Biography and Narrative; School Development, Change and Improvement.

 

Email：christopher.day@nottingham.ac.uk

 

Personal Website：https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Education/People/christopher.day