Leadership in global higher education: Findings from a scoping study

Watermeyer, Richard; Bolden, Richard; Knight, Cathryn; Holm, Jonas

Abstract

This scoping study was commissioned by Advance HE to inform the development of a higher education (HE) leadership survey, with the aim of investigating what works for leadership in higher education and related organisations. The timing of this study is particularly significant given turbulence in the sector caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the need for individuals and institutions around the world to reflect on what they have learnt and what they need to do next. Based on this study we propose a number of recommendations that should be considered when developing the Advance HE global leadership survey, including the need to: take a contextualised approach; explore values and purpose; collate demographic profiling data; engage with a broad cross-section of HE staff and stakeholders; secure responses from a wide range of countries; capture experiences of both ‘being led’ and ‘leading others’; consider informal, emergent and bottom-up leadership; capture evidence and experiences of collective and collaborative leadership; gather a combination of quantitative and qualitative indicators; and to produce a survey that is quick and engaging to complete.

• Report Type: Research Report
• Acceptance Date: Aug 26, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Sep 6, 2022
• Publication Date: Sep 6, 2022
• Deposit Date: Sep 6, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 8, 2022
• Pages: 58
• Keywords: Leadership, Higher education, Education, Teaching
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9953172
• Publisher URL: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/