Re-imagining feminist leadership praxis in higher education
About the Speaker
Kay Fuller is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Nottingham.
Before becoming a higher
education teacher and researcher, Kay worked for 15 years teaching in five mixed
community comprehensive schools in three local authorities. She was a teacher
of English, head of English and deputy headteacher during that time.
Kay is
an elected member of BELMAS National Council. She is co-convenor (with Drs
Pontso Moorosi, Saeeda Shah, Victoria Showunmi and Joan Smith) of the BELMAS
Gender and Leadership Research Interest Group. Kay is also a member of the
international Women Leading Education network that covers five continents. She
is a member of the International School Leadership Development Network. This
network involves researchers from over 20 countries engaging in a common
project and is co-sponsored by BELMAS and UCEA.
Kay is book reviews editor of Educational Review, sits
on the editorial board of the Journal of Educational Administration and History
and is Associate Editor for Frontiers in Education.
In addition to published papers and books Kay has shared her
research with a range of bodies including local schools and events organised by
the network #WomenEd. Kay is a regional lead for the East Midlands region. Kay
was interviewed recently by the Times Educational Supplement and the BBC about
her research into the distribution of women secondary school headteachers in
England.
Her current
research focuses on women, gender and feminism in educational leadership. In
particular, she is currently working on an intersectional feminist exploration
of contemporary educational leadership with a new book due for publication in
2021. In the book, she draws together a number of research projects undertaken
during the last five years to theorize about fourth wave feminism. She draws on
feminist theories to think about leadership including intersectionality theory,
Black British feminism and queer theory. She looks at gender and Islam, digital
feminism, men's pro-feminism and femonationalism.
Having completed a
critical auto-ethnography to re-narrate her life history and refresh her
worldview, she has developed an intersectionality life grid designed to support
the reflexivity of scholars and education professionals alike. Her work is
underpinned by a commitment to working for social justice and takes an
explicitly feminist stance. Even so, she recognises resistance to feminism in
some contexts. She works with colleagues in schools and universities to support
them in their work.
She is founding
co-convener of the BELMAS Gender and Leadership Research Interest Group
(committed to an intersectional perspective) and member of scholarly network
Women Leading Education across Continents.
This lecture will take place on campus, in Lecture Theatre 003, Business and Law Building, City Campus East (full address at the bottom of the page).
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