Developing Collective Leadership in Higher Education Final Report

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the copywriter owner. The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education in funding this project. In particular we would like to thank Professor Robin Middlehurst, Ewart Wooldridge, Helen Goreham and Rob Robertson for their invaluable support and advice. We are also greatly indebted to the assistance of the leadership development managers in the 12 sample institutions although due to confidentiality agreements are unfortunately unable to name them. Without their help it would have been impossible to coordinate the extensive data collection process and their feedback on draft institutional profiles and input at two focus groups has been instrumental in the framing of the research and interpretation of findings. We would also like, of course, to thank the 12 institutions that willingly volunteered to participate in this research and the 152 people who were kind enough to spare their time to be interviewed. We hope that they found the process as interesting as we did.