Career Summary
Prior to coming to the
University
of Tasmania, Neil was an Associate
Professor in the School
of Education, The
University of Queensland. Before joining the university sector, he held various
positions in the Queensland Department of Education at regional and central
office. He has been a Senior Research & Evaluation Officer, Senior Review
Officer and Coordinator of a School Support Centre and has taught science (Head
of Department) and mathematics in secondary schools.
Neil researches, consults and lectures in the
area of leadership, management and change. His interests include educational,
school leadership, the principalship, change, aspiring leaders, future leaders,
middle-level leaders, preparing future leaders
His expertise in the educational leadership
and management area has been acknowledged through invitations to present
conference key-note addresses, to guest edit leadership journals and act as
course moderator and program review member for leadership post-graduate
programs.
Neil is Fellow of the Australian College
of Educators (1996), Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders
(2002), Fellow of the Queensland Institute for Educational Administration (2001)
and he received the Nganakarrawa Award from ACEL in 2009. He is also an Adjunct
Professor, School of Education,
Unitec,
New Zealand.
Publications
Books
Cranston,
N. & Ehrich, L. (Eds.) (2009).
Australian school leadership today. Brisbane: Australian
Academic Press.
Cranston,
N. &
Ehrich, L. (2007) What is this thing
called leadership: Prominent Australian tell their stories. Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.
Journal articles
Cranston,
N. & Ehrich, L. (2009). Senior management teams in schools: Understanding
their dynamics for enhanced effectiveness.
Leading & Managing, 15(1), 14-25.
Cranston, N.
(2008) The use of cases in the leadership development of principals: A recent
initiative in one large education system in Australia. Journal of Educational
Administration, 46(1),
581-597.
Cranston, N.
(2008) .Leading Queensland schools: What some of the research
can tell us? International Studies
in Educational Administration, 36(2), 7-21.
Belmonte, A. & Cranston, N. (2007). Leading Catholic
schools into the future: Some challenges and dilemmas for resolution. Leading
& Managing, 13(2),
15-29.
Billot, J., Goddard, T. &
Cranston, N. (2007) How principals manage ethnocultural diversity:
Learnings from three countries.
International Studies in Educational Administration. 35(2), 3-19.
Cranston,
N. (2007).
Through the eyes of potential aspirants:
Another view of the principalship. School Leadership & Management, 27(2),
109-128.
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