Tony Bush

Contact

• workRoom C7 Dearing Building
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 951 4494
• Tony.Bush@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Tony Bush is Professor of Educational Leadership at Nottingham, with responsibilities in the UK and Malaysia. He is President and a Council member of the British Educational Leadership Society (BELMAS) and has been the editor of the SSCI-listed international journal, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership (EMAL) since 2002. His previous experience includes professorial appointments at the universities of Leicester, Reading, Lincoln and Warwick. He was presented with the BELMAS Distinguished Service Award in 2008 and appointed as a Fellow of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM) in the same year. He has been a consultant, external examiner, invited keynote speaker or research director in 27 countries.

Expertise Summary

All aspects of educational leadership, including leadership theory, leadership development, instructional leadership, and comparative and international school leadership..

Teaching Summary

Educational leadership and management

Research Summary

1. School leadership theories and the Malaysia Education Blueprint (Ministry of Education, Malaysia)

2. Evaluation of Governor Mark (GLM Partnership)

3. Implementation of Educational Reform in Malaysia (HEAD Foundation)

4. Instructional leadership in sub-Saharan Africa (British Council)

5. Systematic literature review of school leadership in Africa (VVOB)

6. Evaluation of the Leading Learning for Gender Equality programme in Zaimbabwe (British Council).

Recent Publications

• 2020. Theories of Educational Leadership and Management: Fifth Edition FIFTH. SAGE.
• MASOUMEH KOUHSARI, 2020. Coming on board: Problems facing novice principals in Iran International Journal of Leadership in Education. (In Press.)
• TONY BUSH, 2019. Distributed leadership and the Malaysia Education Blueprint: From prescription to partial school-based enactment in a highly centralized context Journal of Educational Administration. 57(3), 279-295
• 2018. Moving the school forward: Problems reported by novice and experienced principals during a succession process in Chile International Journal of Educational Development. 62, 201-208

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Tony is a member of the Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management. His research supervision areas include:

School leadership and management

Leadership preparation and development

Leadership theory

Instructional leadership

Diversity and school leadership

International and comparative school leadership

Past Research

** = Project Director

2013 Gauteng Department of Basic Education (£4,000)

Evaluation of School Improvement Agencies (MGSLG and Sci-Bono) **

High H

2013 National College (£4,950)

Desk research on School Leadership: Concepts and Evidence **

2013 University of Warwick (£12,000)

Evaluation of the Warwick in Africa programme **

2013 Zenex Foundation (£6,500)

Desk research on school leadership in South Africa **

2013 Zenex Foundation (£3,500)

Review of PSA (South Africa) leadership development programme **

2013 Unesco (£3,000)

Review of school leadership in West Africa **

2015-2016 Unesco (£3200)

Review of inclusion in Asia **

• 2020. Theories of Educational Leadership and Management: Fifth Edition FIFTH. SAGE.
• MASOUMEH KOUHSARI, 2020. Coming on board: Problems facing novice principals in Iran International Journal of Leadership in Education. (In Press.)
• TONY BUSH, 2019. Distributed leadership and the Malaysia Education Blueprint: From prescription to partial school-based enactment in a highly centralized context Journal of Educational Administration. 57(3), 279-295
• 2018. Moving the school forward: Problems reported by novice and experienced principals during a succession process in Chile International Journal of Educational Development. 62, 201-208
• 2018. Framing the roles and responsibilities of excellent teachers: Evidence from Malaysia Teaching and Teacher Education. 73, 14-23
• 2018. Preparation and induction for school principals: Global perspectives Management in Education. 32(2), 66-71
• MARIA KARAMANIDOU AND TONY BUSH, 2017. Women primary school principals in Cyprus: Barriers to progression International Studies in Educational Administration. 45(1), (In Press.)
• JAVADI, V., BUSH, T. & NG A.Y.M., 2017. Middle Leadership in International Schools: Evidence from Malaysia
• TONY BUSH AND DEREK GLOVER, 2016. School leadership and management in South Africa: Findings from a systematic literature review International Journal of Educational Management. 30(2), 211-231
• TONY BUSH, 2016. School leadership and management in England: The paradox of simultaneous centralization and decentralization Administracio Educacional. 9, 42-53
• TONY BUSH, 2016. School improvement through government agencies: Loose or tight coupling IMPROVING SCHOOLS.
• TONY BUSH AND DEREK GLOVER, 2016. School leadership in West Africa: Findings from a systematic literature review Africa Education Review.
• BUSH, T., GLOVER,D., NG, A.Y.M. & ROMERO, M.J., 2016. Master teachers as teacher leaders: Evidence from Malaysia and the Philippines International Studies in Educational Administration. 43(2), 81-102
• MARIA KAPAROU AND TONY BUSH, 2016. Instructional leadership in Greek and English outstanding schools International Journal of Educational Management. 30(6), 894-912
• KAPAROU, M. and BUSH, T., 2015. Instructional Leadership in Centralised Systems: Evidence from Greek High Performing Secondary Schools School Leadership & Management.
• TONY BUSH, 2015. Organisational theory in education: How does it inform school leadership? Journal of Organizational Theory in Education. 1(1), 35-47
• TONY BUSH AND DEREK GLOVER, 2014. School leadership models: What do we know? School Leadership and Management. 34(5), 553-571