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Academic anomie: Implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education (2024)
Journal Article
Watermeyer, R., Bolden, R., Knight, C., & Crick, T. (in press). Academic anomie: Implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education. Higher Education,

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
Bolden, R. (2024). Making a difference: Opportunities and challenges for critical leadership studies. In O. Smolović-Jones, S. Wilson, H. Liu, & D. Knights (Eds.), Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

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.

Three perspectives on leadership in higher education: Traditionalist, reformist, pragmatist (2024)
Journal Article
Macfarlane, B., Bolden, R., & Watermeyer, R. (in press). Three perspectives on leadership in higher education: Traditionalist, reformist, pragmatist. Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01174-x

There is a fragmented and complex literature about higher education leadership representing a diversity of ideological perspectives about its nature and purposes. Internationally, the literature has been strongly shaped by the importation of concepts... Read More about Three perspectives on leadership in higher education: Traditionalist, reformist, pragmatist.