- Experienced External Expert and Advisor in the validation and revalidation of higher education programmes and periodic review processes.
- Experience collaborating with and providing consultancy to public and private organisations.
- Organisations: Welsh Government, Plymouth City Council, NHS Leadership Academy, Chartered Management Institute, Institute of Leadership and Management, Open University, Eton College
- Former Guest Editor of Journal Administrative Sciences
- Journal reviewer.
- Reviewer of major grants e.g. UKRI.
Karen Jones
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Associate Professor
- Director of the EdD Programme
- Member of the Senior Management Group (SMG)
- Lead for Staff Wellbeing
- Member of the Research committee
- Member of the Post Graduate Research Committee
- Member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee (IoE)
- Member of Ethics Review Committee
- Member of Promotions Committee
Areas of interest
- Women’s careers
- Gender and intersectionality, particularly relating to ethnicity
- Identity, identity work, identity regulation
- Sexism and gender stereotypes
- Postfeminism
- Neoliberal institutions, organisational control, and neoliberal subjectivity
- Feminist and critical perspectives.
Postgraduate supervision
PhD and EdD Level Supervision offered in these areas:
- Women’s careers
- Gender and intersectionality, particularly relating to ethnicity
- Identity, identity work, identity regulation
- Sexism and gender stereotypes
- Postfeminism
- Neoliberal institutions, organisational control, and neoliberal subjectivity
- Feminist and critical perspectives.
Current PhD / EdD Students, with Topics/Titles of their Research:
As first supervisor
- Hailz Osborne: The Golden Ticket – a study of masculinities in an elite boys’ school (with Dr Alison Silby) PhD
- Lara Wilkinson: The impact of performance accountability and marketization on secondary school leaders in the independent sector (with Dr Anthony Zhang) EdD
- Wasilatu Harruna-Adam: A Phenological study of the Lived Experience of Children with A Disability in Ghana (with Professor Billy Wong) EdD
- Mourouhan Arifoglu: Women and Leadership: Examining the opportunities and challenges in UK Higher Education (with Dr Jo Anna Reed Johnson) EdD
- Madeline Best: Teacher mothers of pre-school children - experiences working in schools in England (with Professor Grace James) PhD
As second supervisor
- Millicent Thomas: ‘Fit in’, ‘Get on’ or ‘Get out’? Exploring the experiences of (new) Black Middle Leaders in Secondary Schools (with Professor Billy Wong) EdD
- Aseel Alsharif. Female Teachers’ and Principals’ Experiences and Perceptions of Primary School Educational Reform in Saudi Arabia (with Professor Alan Floyd) PhD
Doctoral completions:
- Emad Alotaibi: Experiences of Leadership in Rural schools in Saudi Arabia: Opportunities and Challenges (with Professor Alan Floyd) PhD
- Sarah Marston: Female headteachers in UK secondary education: leadership identities and authenticity (1st supervisor, with Dr Elizabeth Holden) EdD
- Fatima Zhara Abbou: Women’s leadership in Higher Education in Algeria (1st supervisor, with Professor Billy Wong) PhD
- Jiayi Zhao: Women’s career strategies and motivations in the pursuit of higher education leadership in China (1st Supervisor, with Professor Carol Fuller) PhD
- Clare McCullagh: A kind of currency or just a quiet pride? Exploring career journeys, academic prestige and impact of senior teaching fellowships for women in HE (1st supervisor, with Dr Catherine Foley) EdD
- Meliha Sakin: Exploring Leadership practice in secondary schools in Turkey (1st supervisor, with Professor Alan Floyd) PhD
- Sarah Sherwood: Emotion Work: the impacts when leading schools for young people with autism (1st supervisor, with Professor Cathy Tissot) EdD
- Charmaine Lynch: An investigation into the perceptions of the barriers and enablers for deputy and assistant head teachers when considering a primary headship, within Hampshire (1st supervisor, with Dr Chris Turner) EdD
- Areej Makki M Al-Jahani: Empowerment, gendered identities and leadership: A study of Female Educational Leaders in Universities in Saudi Arabia (1st supervisor, with Dr Chris Turner) PhD
- Nasreen Majid: Exploration of the metamorphosis of identities of teachers who become mathematics specialist teachers in England (1st supervisor, with Professor Alan Floyd) EdD
- Azzah Alsubaie: The experience and perceptions female headteachers and teachers of School Performance Evaluation in Primary Schools in Saudi Arabia (1st supervisor, with Dr Chris Turner) PhD
- Kafa Alenezi: Leadership learning and development for administrators in Kuwait (2nd supervisor, with Dr Chris Turner). Awarded 2019. PhD
- Husain Almalki: School principals' experiences and perceptions of autonomy and decision making in Saudi Arabia (1st & 2nd supervisor, with Professor Alan Floyd) PhD
- Ahmad Alsewiket: The perspectives of male academic staff and postgraduate students on the effects of globalisation on higher education and cultural identity: A case study at a college of education in Saudi Arabia (2nd supervisor, with Professor Alan Floyd) PhD
Teaching
- PhD and EdD supervision
- Educational Leadership & Management (EDM173)
- Leadership in Education (ED2BLE)
- Contribute to Post Graduate Research Methods modules and the Doctoral training programme
Research centres and groups
- Prosperity and Resilience Theme
- Improving Equity and Inclusion through Education Research Group
- Accommodating diversity in the workplace
Research projects
- Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Funded project: ‘Leadership and Diversity in Higher Education’. Involved research to support UoR goals and targets for equality in leadership, specifically the gender and BAME balance in professorial, senior grade roles and university committees
- Women Academic’s maternity leave experiences in academia
- Post-doctoral career precarity arising from career breaks
Funding:
- Principal Investigator: Developing a co-designed research agenda to inform policy on Violence Reduction Research England. Policy Support Grant (£6,971). 2021-22.
- Principal Investigator: Evaluation of the Mentors in Violence Prevention programme to tackle gender-based violence in secondary schools. Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit (£5,000). 2022.
- Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Project (UROP), °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼. Higher Education Leadership gaps - understanding the underrepresentation of women and BAME groups in professorial and senior leadership roles (£1,320). 2020.
- Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Project (UROP), °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼. Using Graphic Research Methods in Diversity and Inclusion research (£1,320). 2020.
- Applicant and Principal Investigator: ‘Leadership and Diversity in Higher Education’, funded by Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Fund, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ (£987.10). 2019-20.
- EERA funded international seminar - Academic Careers: PhD graduates and Employability in- and outside Academia (£275). 2019
- Co-Investigator: Two Projects - Gender Equality and Gender Intelligence. Eton College (£27,000). 2017-18.
- Co-applicant: Community outreach project, funded by Widening Participation, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ (£4,000). 2017.
- Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Project (UROP), °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼. Taking a maternity break from academia: the perceptions, implications and experiences of women returning to academia (£1,320). 2017.
- Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Project (UROP), °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼. Academic Career Breaks: post-doctorate hell – rhetoric or reality (£1,320). 2017.
- Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Tackling stereotypes, sexism and unconscious biases in teaching and learning. Teaching and Learning Development Fund (TLDF), with Institute of Education, Department of Economics, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (£500) 2016-18.
- Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: NHS ‘Organisational Leadership Development (OD) Training’, Post Graduate Certificate and Post Graduate Diploma in Organisational Leadership. (£150,000) Funded by NHS Leadership Academy South West. 2013-15.
- Community and Primary Care Workforce Development Tender. Co-ordinated Lot 7- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Lot 10 Leadership. (circa £500,000) Funded by Health Education South West. 2015.
- Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: ‘Learning to Lead in the Public Sector’ (£2,500) Funded by Plymouth University Seed Corn Fund. 2014.
- LEAD Wales Expansion - ‘Leadership Wales’ (£600,000): Made a significant contribution to bid awarded to Swansea University (partner to Bangor University in ‘LEAD Wales’) funded by the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO). 2013.
- Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Developing Strategic links between Higher Education and the Third Sector in Wales, Strategic Insight Programme (£7,000). Funding awarded by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW). 2013.
- Co-Applicant and Co-Investigator: Determining the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People Living with a Parent or Guardian with a Chronic Condition (£10,000). Funding awarded by the Office of the Chief Social Research Officer, Welsh Government. 2009.
Background
I am an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, with specific interests in two key areas: first, women’s leadership, second, the learning of leadership through lived experience and taught interventions.
I am experienced in:
- Qualitative research - lived experience, autobiographical narrative and storied accounts, semi-structured interviews, focus groups.
- Quantitative research – longitudinal studies, surveys, secondary analysis of national survey data and other large-scale surveys.
Academic qualifications
BA Hons (First Class), PhD, Cert Ed, HEDip
Personal Achievements:
Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
Professional bodies/affiliations
- International Leadership Association (ILA)
- ILA Woman and Leadership Affinity Group
- British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society (BELMAS)
- Member BELMAS Gender and Leadership Interest Group
- Gender and Education Association (GEA)
- British Academy of Management (BAM)
Websites/blogs
Selected publications
Recent Conference and Symposia Presentations:
- Chair and contributor: International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR), The reality of a maternity Career Break from Academia - evidence from a global survey with female academics, July 2020.
- Invited Speaker: Dasein Leadership, Diversity & inclusion in Higher Education Leadership, Oxford, 2019.
- Invited Panel Speaker: Open Research Conference, Reading, UK, April 2019.
- International Conference on Gender Research, Gender Stereotyping and Unconscious Bias in Education, Rome, Italy. Apr 2019.
Enterprise Activity, External Roles and Consultancy: