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It is with great pleasure that I can announce details of the sixth in the 2009/10 Educational Research Seminar Series, hosted by Educational and Staff Development. If you have already booked onto this seminar, please ignore this email. This seminar is presented by Professor Stephanie Marshall, Director of Programmes, at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and will be on the subject of Academic Leadership. The seminar takes place on Monday 24th May at 3pm. Academic Leadership: What's it all about? In this presentation, Stephanie Marshall, visiting Professor of Leadership and Management Development at QMUL, sets out her views on the leadership of higher education. She argues for a unique brand of leadership: academic leadership. The presentation will explore this concept: what it is, how it compares to other models of leadership (to include that of the NHS), and how it can bring about a culture in which all - academic and support staff - can thrive. Professor Stephanie Marshall Director of Programmes, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) Stephanie has almost 20 years experience of researching, designing and delivering leadership development programmes and interventions. Prior to taking up her post as Director, Programme Development at the Leadership Foundation, she worked at the University of York. At York she held a range of roles and responsibilities (encompassing both educational and leadership development) including College Provost, Senior Management Development Consultant in the Department of Management Studies, Director of Staff Development, and lecturer in Educational Studies. At the Leadership Foundation she initiated the LF Fellowship Programme, designed and delivered three executive leadership development programmes (Head of Department (HoDs), Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership (PSSL) and Senior Strategic Leadership SSL)) and oversaw the LFHE's engagement of the 31 universities of the north. Since becoming the Director of Programmes in 2007, she now is responsible for overseeing the quality, standards and impact of all the LF's open programmes. Additionally, further to the Oakleigh review of the HEFCE LGM fund in the same year, she was invited to join the HEFCE LGM Internal Panel. Along with numerous articles and book chapters, she is co-editor (with Steve Ketteridge and Heather Fry) of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Enhancing Academic Practice (RKP, now in 3rd edition) and The Professional Academic: Enhancing Academic Practice (RKP), and editor of Strategic Leadership of Change in HE: What's New? (2007, RKP). In 2007, she was made visiting professor of leadership and management development at QMUL. The seminar will take place at 3pm in Room 602 on the sixth floor of the G. O. Jones Building (formerly known as the Physics Building) on the Mile End campus of the College. As spaces are limited, I would be grateful if you could email me to let me know if you wish to come along to this seminar. The final two seminars for this year will be: 17th June Dr Chris Trevitt, Director of Studies, Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford Research supervision at Oxford: tales from the development experience coalface (rescheduled form April) 28th June Dr Matthew Williamson, Education Adviser, QMUL, and Dr Giles Martin, Learning and Teaching Development Adviser, QMUL Transitions to Higher Education: reflections on a three-year study All the best Matthew Dr Matthew J. Williamson Education Adviser Educational and Staff Development Queen Mary, University of London E1 4NS Tel: 020 7882 2813 www.esd.qmul.ac.uk