Core expertise
Educational leadership
Biography
Fiona is a lecturer in educational leadership. Her current research investigates interactions of school and system leadership with student engagement and agency. She explored this through her doctorate awarded by University of Melbourne in 2017, and is now interested in alternative settings for disengaged young people.
Other current research interests are leading high-needs schools, leadership for social cohesion, leading in times of crisis, and principal and teacher career development and retention.