Outputs (30)

Facilitative leadership: Re-framing narratives to navigate conflict and difference (2024)
Journal Article

The current paper explores the facilitative role of leadership in the context of peacebuilding and conflict resolution. It highlights the importance of skilled facilitation in navigating complex, multi‐stakeholder environments characterized by diverg... Read More about Facilitative leadership: Re-framing narratives to navigate conflict and difference.

Antecedents and consequences of distributed leadership in Indian higher education (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose
The concept of distributed leadership (DL) has been widely advocated within higher education (HE). Yet, there have been few empirical investigations and little theory development outside Western contexts to date. This study presents a unique... Read More about Antecedents and consequences of distributed leadership in Indian higher education.

Monsters, metaphors and masks: Leadership insights from halloween (2024)
Digital Artefact

In this article for the International Leadership Association (ILA) blog on 'Leadership for the Greater Good' Drs. Neil Sutherland, Rachel Wolfgramm, and ILA Fellow Dr. Richard Bolden consider what we can learn about leadership from the traditions of... Read More about Monsters, metaphors and masks: Leadership insights from halloween.

The qualitative election study of Britain party leader evaluations database, 2010-2019 (2024)
Journal Article

We describe the Qualitative Election Study of Britain (QESB) Party Leader Evaluation Database, a database containing 4,119 words and phrases evaluating British political party leaders. The data were collected during pre-election focus groups and inte... Read More about The qualitative election study of Britain party leader evaluations database, 2010-2019.

Academic anomie: Implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education (2024)
Journal Article

The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has ignited a near universal rethink of what is tolerable or desirable in work settings. In higher education – where discontent has been exacerbated by the pandemic – the potential for a 'great resignation' is... Read More about Academic anomie: Implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education.

Making a difference: Opportunities and challenges for critical leadership studies (2024)
Book Chapter

Critical Leadership Studies (CLS) is founded on the premise that the leader-centrism that characterises traditional approaches to leadership theory, practice and development constrains the ability to work in more inclusive, collaborative and sustaina... Read More about Making a difference: Opportunities and challenges for critical leadership studies.

Pieces of Us (2023)
Book

Shops, churches, pubs, social clubs, libraries, parks, schools, streets, windowsills, gardens, pavements... These public spaces can have an extraordinary effect on well-being in a community. They bring people together and form the bonds that lead to... Read More about Pieces of Us.

Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system (2023)
Journal Article

In this paper, we draw on systems leadership, complexity and paradox theory to elucidate the tensions that organisational actors experience when practising multi-level leadership. We explore these issues through a study of the perceptions and experie... Read More about Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system.

Organisational leadership: Introduction to the special issue (2023)
Journal Article

In this special issue, we focus on the topic of organisational leadership. The call for papers was intentionally quite broad, recognising that what happens in organisations is influenced by societal trends and issues, as well as the particular charac... Read More about Organisational leadership: Introduction to the special issue.

Developing community leadership for action on affordable, healthy, and sustainable food issues (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the context of the current cost of living crisis, many activists are working within their communities to promote access to affordable, healthy, and sustainable food. Yet there are very few opportunities share experiences, ideas and resources betwe... Read More about Developing community leadership for action on affordable, healthy, and sustainable food issues.

Rise of the machines (2023)
Digital Artefact

ILA Fellow, Professor Richard Bolden (University of the West of England), asked ChatGPT-4 to identify the top implications of AI for leadership. Bolden shares the generative AI’s response as well as some general principles leadership professionals ca... Read More about Rise of the machines.

Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd Edition (2023)
Book

What is leadership and why does it matter?
Why do people willingly follow some leaders and not others?
How can we develop more inclusive and effective leadership?

Leadership is one of the most talked about yet least understood concepts in busine... Read More about Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd Edition.

Reflections from advances in global leadership's Emerald Literati award winners (2023)
Book Chapter

The book/journal editors of Emerald Publishing are asked to select the Outstanding Author Contribution in each volume, which is a difficult choice. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Emerald Literati Awards were handed out in a ceremony at the Academy... Read More about Reflections from advances in global leadership's Emerald Literati award winners.

Leadership and culture (2023)
Book Chapter

Interest in the relationship between leadership and culture first garnered attention during the ‘cultural turn’ in management and organization studies in the 1980s (Peters & Waterman, 1982; Smircich and Morgan, 1982; Morgan, 1986) and has grown consi... Read More about Leadership and culture.

Leaving Leadership (2023)
Digital Artefact

ILA Fellow Richard Bolden delves into what the surprise resignations of Nicola Sturgeon and Jacinda Ardern reveal about today’s toxic leadership contexts, what it means to be a “strong leader,” and how leaders transition out of their roles.

My Food Community: Summary evaluation findings from the first delivery of the programme in 2021–22 (2022)
Report

The Soil Association’s My Food Community is a community leadership programme intended to create ‘a network for good food champions to learn, connect and take action’. My Food Community forms part of Food for Life Get Togethers, a UK-wide National Lot... Read More about My Food Community: Summary evaluation findings from the first delivery of the programme in 2021–22.

My Food community: Full evaluation report on the first delivery of a community food leadership programme (2022)
Report

In the context of the current cost of living crisis, many activists are working within their communities to promote access to affordable, healthy, and sustainable food. Yet there are very few opportunities
share experiences, ideas and resources betw... Read More about My Food community: Full evaluation report on the first delivery of a community food leadership programme.

Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development (2022)
Journal Article

Whilst Day's (2000) description of leadership development as an investment in social capital has been widely cited, there has been little subsequent empirical or theoretical work to explore and articulate the nature and purpose of this ‘social capita... Read More about Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development.

A systems approach to tackling severe and multiple disadvantage (2022)
Digital Artefact

ILA Fellow Richard Bolden discusses his work leading an independent evaluation of Bristol Golden Key, a collaborative partnership project designed to transform services for people with multiple complex needs such as homelessness and substance misuse.... Read More about A systems approach to tackling severe and multiple disadvantage.

Leadership in global higher education: Findings from a scoping study (2022)
Report

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... Read More about Leadership in global higher education: Findings from a scoping study.