Professor Howard Stevenson

Professor Howard Stevenson is Deputy Director of the Centre for Educational Research and Development and Director of CERD's Doctoral Programmes (PhD/EdD). Prior to joining Lincoln in 2007 he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester, Centre for Educational Leadership and Management. Before that Howard was a teacher in secondary education for 15 years. His research interests focus on both the school andhigher education sectors. These include understanding the formation and development of education policy processes, educational management, school and HE sector labour relations/teacher unions and the investigation of teachers' work/academic labour through labour process analysis.

Howard was co-researcher (with Professor Bob Carter, De Montfort University) on the ESRC funded project ‘Workforce remodelling, teacher trade unions and school-based industrial relations’ (RES-062-23-0034A). He is currently involved in research projects focusing on industrial relations issues in the UK higher education sector (funded by SRHE) and Academy schools (funded by BELMAS).

Howard is an editorial board member of several journals (including Education Administration Quarterly, and Forum) and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Professional Development in Education. He is currently co-editing (with Professor Les Bell) a four-volume reference collection entitled ‘Organizing Public Education’, to be published by Sage in 2013.

Contact Details

Room:MC3114
Address: See below
e-mail: hstevenson@lincoln.ac.uk
blog: https://howardstevenson.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/
Tel: +44(0)1522 837333
Skype: howard.stevenson1

Selected recent publications:

Peer-reviewed journals

Stevenson, H. and Carter, B. (2009) Teachers and the State: Forming and Re-Forming ‘Partnership’ Journal of Education Administration and History. 41 (4) 311-326.

Stevenson, H. (2008) Challenging the orthodoxy: union learning representatives as organic intellectuals in Journal of In-Service Education, 35 (4) 455-466.

Stevenson, H., Carter, B. and Passy, R. (2007) ‘New professionalism’, workforce remodelling and the restructuring of teachers’ work in International Electronic Journal of Leadership for Learning , volume 11 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/~iejll/)

Stevenson, H. (2007) Restructuring teachers’ work and trade union responses in England: Bargaining for Change, in American Educational Research Journal, Summer issue 44 (2) 224-251.

Stevenson, H. (2007) A case study in leading schools for social justice: when morals and markets collide, in Journal of Educational Administration, 45 (6) 769-781.

Stevenson, H. (2006) Moving towards, into and through Principalship: developing a framework for researching the career trajectories of school leaders, in Journal of Educational Administration, 44 (4) 408-420.

Books:

Carter, B., Stevenson, H. and Passy, R. (2010) Industrial Relations in Education: Transforming the School Workforce, London, Routledge.

Bell, L., Stevenson, H., and Neary, M., (2009) (editors) The Future of Higher Education, London: Continuum.

Bell, L. and Stevenson, H. (2006) Education Policy: Process, themes and impact London: RoutledgeFalmer.

Conference and invited presentations:

Weiner, L., Pastrana, J. and Stevenson, H. (2010) Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Exploring Connections and Contradictions Amidst a Global Economic Crisis AERA Social Justice Action Committee Invited Presentation, at AERA Annual Meeting, Denver, 29th April-3rd May.

Stevenson, H. (2009) The Future of Higher Education: Changing Universities in a Changing World, presented at Heibei Polytechnic University, Tangshan, PRC, 1st December.

Stevenson, H. (2009) Union Learning Representatives as the Organisers of Ideas. Seminar organised by TUC/Routledge, 3rd April 2009, TUC, Congress House, London.

Stevenson, H. (2006) Restructuring school sector education in England: learning lessons from 20 years of reform, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, PRC, 19 June.

Stevenson, H. (2006) Values-driven leadership: managing multi-ethnic schools in times of change, Barking and Dagenham LA headteachers’ conference, Barking, 16 May.

Stevenson, H. (2005) ‘Values-driven leadership’ under pressure: managing multi-ethnic schools in a market context National Union of Teachers, Leadership Convention, London, 7 October.

Stevenson, H. (2005) ‘Not competitors-just rivals’ Developing teacher leadership through cross-school collaboration Chinese University of Hong Kong 40th Anniversary Conference, Shatin, Hong Kong, 3 December.