Professor Jacky Lumby's main interests are in leadership and management, particularly in 14-19 and post-compulsory education. Her research has encompassed studies of the practice of school and college leader/managers at all levels in the UK and internationally. She is concerned to explore how leaders can establish relationships, systems and processes which support all learners and staff to succeed in the context of living a life they value.Partnership and diversity issues are particular interests within the broad field of leadership and management. International and diversity issues are particular interests within the broad field of leadership and management. She has researched and published widely on leadership and management in schools in the UK and South Africa and on the leadership and management of further/technical education in the UK, China, Hong Kong and South Africa. She is also interested in adopting an international perspective, challenging the assumption in much writing on educational leadership and management of the appropriateness of Western-derived concepts, theories and suggested practice to different cultures and within an increasingly diverse UK culture.

Her most recent book (with Dr Marianne Coleman) published by Sage, explores diversity and leadership. She has written (with Professor Nick Foskett) on 14-19 education, also published by Sage.

Professor Lumby entered higher education after a long and varied involvement with education, having taught and led in secondary schools, adult and community and further education She also worked in a Training and Enterprise Council with responsibility for the development of managers in both business and education, managing a network which allowed the cross-fertilisation of skills and experience from education into business and vice versa.

She is co editor of International Studies in Educational Administration, an editor of two international handbooks on leader preparation and development and a member of the Execuitive Council of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Association.

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  Higher education in Palestine
  Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness
• Allen, Clifford
  Identifying leadership development needs and requirements in senior local authority staff
  Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness
• Churcher, Julie
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• Dadgostar, Afsaneh
  Being a mature student on a Primary PGCE course - emotional, social and academic issues
  Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness
• El-Hakim, Yassein
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  Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness
• Elsbury, Sally
  High attrition rates in operating department practice - what are the influences for students embarking on this course?
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• Finch, Stephen
  The influence of background and demographic factors on the leadership of further education principles
  Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness
• Horswell, Michael
  Raising your peoples' aspirations
  Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness
• Joyce, Penelope
  Professional confidence in DipHE Operating Department practice Students
  Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness
• Lueddeke, Jill
  The nature and impact of language use of female leaders in further education
  Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness
• Meakin, Stephanie
  Leadership training for nursing students
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• Mills, Anne
  Health legacy of a major games event
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• Ryall, Steven
  Internationalising the curriculum in professional health services
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• Wee, Eng
  Communication styles of principals in Malaysia
  Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness
• Winch, Junko
  An investigation into the cultural influence of Japanization for Japanese language learning in an international context
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• Significant Publications
• Lumby, J. and Coleman, M. (2007) Leadership and diversity: challenging theory and practice in education, London, UK, Sage
• Books
• Lumby, Jacky, Crow, Gary and Pashiardis, Petros (eds.) (2008) International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders, New York, USA & Abingdon, UK, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 512pp
• Lumby, J & Foskett, N. (2005) 14-19 Education in Schools and Colleges: Policy, leadership and learning, London, Paul Chapman.
• Foskett, N. & Lumby, J. (2003) Leading and Managing Education: International Dimensions, London, Paul Chapman.
• Foskett, Nick and Lumby, Jacky (2003) Leading and managing education: international dimensions , London, UK, Sage Publications, 240pp.
• Lumby, Jacky (2001) Managing further education: learning enterprise, London, UK, Sage Publications, 224pp.

• Peer Reviewed Journal Papers
• Lumby, Jacky and Morrison, Marlene (2010) Leadership and diversity: theory and research. School Leadership and Management, 30, (1), 3-17. (In Press)
• Samier, Eugenie and Lumby, Jacky (2010) Alienation, servility, and amorality: relating Gogol’s portrayal of bureaupathology to an accountability era. Educational Management and Administration, 38, (3) (In Press)
• Lumby, Jacky and Coleman, Marianne (2010) Editorial. Leadership and diversity. School Leadership and Management, 30, (1) (In Press)
• Lumby, J. (2009) Collective leadership of local school systems power, autonomy and ethics. Educational Management Administration & Leadership (In Press)
• Lumby, Jacky and Morrison, Marlene (2009) Youth perspectives: schooling, capabilities frameworks and human rights. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 16 pp. (doi:10.1080/13603110801995920)
• Lumby, Jacky (2009) Enjoyment and learning: policy and secondary school learners’ experience in England. British Educational Research Journal (In Press)
• Morrison, Marlene and Lumby, Jacky (2009) Is leadership observable? Qualitative orientations to leadership for diversity. A case from FE. Ethnography and Education, 4, (1), 65 -82. (doi:10.1080/17457820802703515)
• Lumby, Jacky and English, Fenwick W. (2008) From simplicism to complexity in leadership identity and preparation: exploring the lineage and dark secrets. International Journal of Leadership in Education (In Press)
• Lumby, J. (2008) Performativity and identity: mechanisms of exclusion. Journal of Education Policy. (In Press)
• Morrison, M. and Lumby, J. (2007) Equality audits in education : exercises in compliance or frameworks for Inclusion? Ethnography & Education, 2, (3), 327-348. (doi:10.1080/17457820701547369)
• Lumby, J. (2007) Leaders’ orientations to diversity: two cases from education. Leadership(In Press)
• Lumby, J. (2006) Conceptualising Diversity and Leadership: Evidence from Ten Cases, Educational Management and Administration Vol. 34, No. 2. pp. 151-165.
• Lumby, J. & Morrison, M. (2006) Partnership, Conflict and Gaming, Journal of Education Policy, Vol. 21, No.3, pp. 323-341.
• Lumby, Jacky (2006) "Conceptualizing diversity and leadership: evidence from 10 cases". Educational Management & Administration, 34, (2), 151-165. (doi:10.1177/1741143206062487)
• Lumby, J., Foskett, N. & Fidler, B (2005) Editorial: Researching educational leadership and management, Educational Management and Administration, Vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 135-137.
• Foskett, Nick, Lumby, Jacky and Fidler, Brian (2005) Evolution or extinction? Reflections on the future of research in educational leadership and management. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 33, (2), 245-253.
• Lumby, Jacky, Foskett, Nick and Fidler, Brian (2005) Editorial. Researching educational leadership and management. Educational Management Administation & Leadership, 33, (2), 135-137.
• Lumby, Jacky (2003) "Distributed leadership in colleges: leading or misleading?" Educational Management & Administration, 31, (3), 283-293. (doi:10.1177/0263211X03031003005)
• Lumby, Jacky and Wilson, Michael (2003) "Developing 14-19 education: meeting the needs and improving choice". Journal of Education Policy, 18, (5), 533-550. (doi:10.1080/0268093032000124884)
• Lumby, Jacky (2003) "Culture change: the case of sixth form and general further education colleges". Educational Management and Administration, 31, (2), 157-172. (doi:10.1177/0263211X030312005)
• Research Reports
• Morrison, Marlene, Lumby, Jacky, Maringe, Felix, Bhopal, Kalwant and Dyke, Martin (2007) Diversity, identity and leadership. Lancaster, UK, Lancaster University, 41pp.
• Book Chapters
• English, F.W., Lumby, J.G., Papa, R., Samier, E.A. and Walker, A.D. (2009) Best of the best: the most influential international writing in educational administration in the last forty years. In, English, Fenwick W. (ed.) Educational Leadership and Administration [four volume set]. London, UK, Sage, xxi-xlvii. (Sage Library of Educational Thought & Practice, 1).
• Lumby, Jacky and Foskett, Nick (2008) Leadership and Culture. In, Lumby, Jacky, Crow, Gary and Pashiardis, Petros (eds.) International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders. New York, USA & Abingdon, UK, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 42-59
• Lumby, Jacky, Crow, Gary and Pashiardis, Petros (2008) Epilogue. In, Lumby, Jacky, Crow, Gary and Pashiardis, Petros (eds.) International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders.. New York, USA & Abingdon, UK, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 458-460
• Crow, Gary, Lumby, Jacky and Pashiardis, Petros (2008) Introduction. In, Lumby, Jacky, Crow, Gary and Pashiardis, Petros (eds.) International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders.. New York, USA & Abingdon, UK, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1-17
• Lumby, Jacky, Bryant, Miles, Walker, Alan, Bush, Tony and Bjork, Lars (2008) International perspectives on leadership education. In, Young, Michelle, Crow, Gary, Murphy, Jo and Ogawa, Rodney (eds.) Research on Leadership Preparation in a Global Context. USA, Routledge. (In Press) - HERE
• Lumby, J. (2008) Disappearing gender: choices in identity. In, Sobehart, Helen C. (ed.) Women Leading Education Across the Continents: Sharing the Spirit, Fanning the Flame. Lanham, USA, Rowman and Littlefield, 29-38.
• Conference Presentations
• Samier, Eugenie and Lumby, Jacky (2008) Corruption, futility and madness: relating Gogol’s portrayal of bureaupathology to an accountability era. In, Biennial Conference of the Commonwealth Council for Education Administration, Durban, South Africa, 8-11 Sep 2008. , 14pp.
• Lumby, Jacky and Heystek, Jan (2008) Race, identity and leadership in South African and English schools. In, Biennial Conference of Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management. Think Globally Act Locally: a Challenge to Education Leaders, Durban, South Africa, 8-12 Sep 2008. , 12pp.

2005-06 Consultant to Aim Higher project North Lincolnshire and Humberside. Investigating the nature and effect of work-based and work-related teaching and learning in schools.

2005 Consultant to North Torfaen Local Education Authority, Review of level 3 provision.