Gender and Leadership in Education Women Achieving Against the Odds

Kay Fuller is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and course leader of the MA in Educational Leadership and Management at the School of Education, University of Nottingham. She is a member of the Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management (CRELM). She has published internationally in the area of gender and educational leadership. Kay is an elected member of the British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) Council and Co-Convenor of the BELMAS Gender and Leadership Research Interest Group. She is also an invited member of the worldwide network Women Leading Education.

Judith Harford is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Professional Master of Education (PME) at the School of Education, University College Dublin. She has published internationally in the areas of history of women’s education, teacher education and education policy. She is Co-ordinator of the Teacher Education Policy in Europe Network and a Convenor of the Teacher Education Research Network of the European Educational Research Association (EERA). She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London) and an International Clinical Practice Fellow of the American Association of Teacher Educators.