Third International Handbook of Educational Change

A. Lin Goodwin  (葛文林) is the Thomas More Brennan Chair of Education at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston, USA. Prior to joining Boston College, she was Dean of the Faculty (School) of Education at the University of Hong Kong (2017-2022) and Vice Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University (TCCU) in New York (2011-2017), where she also held the Evenden Foundation Chair in Education. Professor Goodwin served as Vice President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)—Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education (2013-2016), and is a Senior Research Fellow of the Learning Policy Institute. She received the 2022 Spencer Foundation Mentor Award honoring her work with emerging academics and doctoral students. She is the recipient of several multi-million-dollar U.S. federal grants to support TR@TC, an innovative teaching residency program at TCCU that she designed and launched in 2009, a program that has prepared 13 cohorts—and counting—of exceptional teachers for NYC schools.

Andy Hargreaves  is Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada and Research Professor at Boston College in the USA. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Education, former President of the International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement (2018-2020), former Adviser in Education to the Premier of Ontario (2015-2018), and current adviser to the First Minister of Scotland. Andy is co-founder and president of the ARC Education Collaboratory.  Andy has published more than 30 books and has 8 Outstanding Writing Awards. An exceptional keynote speaker and workshop leader, he has delivered invited addresses in more than 50 countries, 47 US states, and all Australian and Canadian states and provinces. He has been honoured in Canada, the US, and the UK for services to public education and educational research and is ranked by Education Week (US) as the #15 scholar with the most influence on the US education policy debate. 

Victoria Showunmi  is an Associate Professor at University College London, UK, in the Faculty of Institute of Education. Her research interests are gender, identity, race and class through the lens of intersectionality, focusing on identity & leadership and the lived experience of Black women and girls. Her work develops fresh conceptual frameworks focusing on equity and social justice, especially the interplay between people and the sophistication of behaviours which lead to disengagement with the promotion of equality. Her work shows how culture and cultural background have the potential to disrupt power structures and lead to transformational change. She has an international profile based on the dissemination of her research through publication and teaching. Her experience as an international scholar includes collaborative teaching, research & publications with colleagues (USA, Africa, Brazil, Pakistan & Europe); European COST Action -Gender Voices Early researchers, FIERCE Advisory Board and DAAD scholarship awards. Recent publications include Showunmi & Tomlin (2022)  Understanding and Managing Sophisticated and Everyday Racism: Implications for Education and Work , and Showunmi et al. (Eds.) (2022)  The Bloomsbury Handbook of Gender and Educational Leadership and Management . She is an executive member of the Gender and Education Association (GEA), Conference Chair for British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society, Chair of the International studies SIG.

Corrie Stone-Johnson  is a Professor of Educational Administration at University at Buffalo, USA, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Educational Change. Previously, she was the Associate Editor of the journal Leadership and Policy in Schools published by Taylor & Francis. Her research in educational change and leadership examines the social and cultural aspects of change, highlighting the ways in which people interact to foster or impede reform in a context of accountability. She is particularly concerned with understanding the social contexts and organizational cultures within which teachers, leaders, and school support staff experience change. She is the author of the book  Generational Identity, Educational Change, and School Leadership published in 2016. She holds degrees from Boston College Lynch School and Tufts University.

Jennie Weiner  is a Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her scholarship focuses on issues of leadership and organizational change, including the impact of gender and racial discrimination in educational leadership. She is affiliated with UConn’s Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research and Evaluation and previously serves as the co-director of the school’s EdD program. Her scholarship focuses on issues of educational leadership and organizational change, including teacher leadership and capacity building the impact of gender and racial discrimination in educational leadership. She appears as an expert on issues of women, leadership, and care work for a variety of events and on media outlets, such as  Good Morning America  and  NPR , as well as on a variety of podcasts and is the co-author of the book  Education Lead(her)ship: Advancing Women in K-12 Administration  with Monica Higgins. She is also the co-author of  The Strategy Playbook for Education Leaders with Isobel Stevenson. She holds degrees from Harvard University and Amherst College.