Leadership, Education and Development

Enhancing local, national and international connections to co-create and capture the impact of leadership, education and development interventions within organisation contexts.

LEAD research group is located in Liverpool Business School and was established in November 2017. We are an inclusive group of experienced Business School academics, early career researchers, doctoral students, visiting research fellows and alumni.

Our mission is to create, develop and inform leading–edge theories and practices by engaging in co-operative research initiatives and consultancy interventions. We seek to promote wide discussion and debate about leadership, education and development from a range of perspectives; individual; group; and organisational.

Our expertise

We have a broad range of activities taking place within the following key topics:

Human Resource Development & Leadership
Leadership Development
Fair Work
Professional Practice and Education

Find out more about each of our areas of expertise including current projects, group members and Doctoral students by searching under ‘our people’.

Our People

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Our activities

LEAD Research Forums

We organize regular LEAD Research Forums creating a ‘safe’ space for discussion and dialogue. These Forums take place on Wednesdays from 12.00noon – 2.00pm. They are open to all LEAD members and others who would welcome contributing to our research community.

Dates and topics agreed for 2018-19 are:

Date	Topic	Keynote
26 September 2018	Rethinking leadership research: towards a theory of leadership as material micro-practices of the self	Professor Jackie Ford Durham University Business School, Durham University.
31 October 2018	Creativity in methods: digital methods and smartnograph.	Professor Shona Bettany Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University
28 October 2018	LBS: School of Clinical Practice What has Action Learning Learnt to become Now?	Tim Nichol Dean, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University Mike Pedler Founding Editor of Action Learning: Research & Practice journal Cheryl Brook In coming Editor of Action Learning: Research & Practice journal
30 January 2019	Impact case studies	Professor Jim Stewart Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University Adam Shore Academic Director, Liverpool Business School Liverpool John Moores University Lucy Day Impact officer, Research & Innovation Services, Liverpool John Moores University
27 February 2019	Publishing Literature Reviews: Tips for Success	Mina Beigi Southampton Business School, University of Southampton
13 March 2019	Developing your research career: teaching and scholarship	Professor Lisa Anderson Associate Dean Postgraduate: University of Liverpool Management School, Liverpool University
8 May 2019	Collaborative Research: Tales from the field	Vivienne Griggs Deputy Director (Student Education), University of Leeds Aileen Lawless Reader in HRD, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University Jan Rae Senior Lecturer, Greenwich University

Our connections:

We have established links to other areas of the University involved in leadership, education and development research:

We also have established links to our external communities; co-creating and capturing the impact of leadership, education and development interventions within a business context.

Action Learning: Research and Practice journal

Contact us

The research group is led by Dr Aileen Lawless, Reader in HRD. We welcome enquiries related to:

Doctoral applications in the area of Leadership, Education and Development;
Organisation based research, evaluation and consultancy projects;
Participation in our developing research community.

In the first instance, please get in touch via a.lawless@ljmu.ac.uk

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