Abu Dhabi - Sustainability and precarity, leading education into positive futures by Dr Alexander Gardner-McTaggart

The University of Manchester Middle East Centre is pleased to invite you to an exclusive in-person masterclass in Abu Dhabi with the MA Educational Leadership in Practice course director Dr. Alexander Gardner-Mctaggart, who will deliver a talk on sustainability and precarity and leading education into positive futures, expand on the programme details and lead an interactive Q&A session.

About Dr Alexander Gardner-McTaggart

Alex is the course director for the University of Manchester Masters in Educational Leadership in Practice, and a lecturer in educational leadership at the University of Manchester having joined as senior lecturer in leadership from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS). He has taught and researched internationally since 1995, and his research seeks to better understand globalising pressures on education and its leadership through the lens of equity, distinction and power.

Alex is a convenor of the International and Comparative Education Special Interest Group (SIG) of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and is an active member of the British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) and its Critical Education Policy (CEP) research interest group. His PhD on international educational leadership at the University of Nottingham was supervised by Tony Bush and Howard Stevenson and was the first of its kind to explore senior leadership in international schools, as well as has a keen interests in research around educational leadership, international education, and global citizenship education.