About the Authors

Ira Bogotch is a Professor at Florida Atlantic University in the Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology. His primary research areas are leadership for social justice and critical social theories applied to K12 public schooling. His most recent publications include critiques of educational leadership research methods and the welcoming and integration of immigrant newcomers. Ira has co-edited handbooks published by Springer and Wiley. He continues to support scholarly journals through board memberships and peer-review.

Dr Denise Mifsud is Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, Management and Governance in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. She has many years of practitioner experience in education settings in both teaching and top-level leadership roles within the Ministry for Education, Malta. She previously held a full-time lecturing post at the University of the West of Scotland as well as being a Part-Time Lecturer at the University of Malta. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research at the same university. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Stirling in 2015. Research areas of interest include educational policy analysis, generation, reception and enactment; critical leadership theories, with a particular interest in educational leadership, especially distributed forms; school networks and educational reform; teacher education; teacher leadership; power relations; Foucauldian theory; Actor-Network theory, as well as qualitative research methods, with a particular focus on narrative, as well as creative and unconventional modes of data representation. She is a member of several professional organizations, in addition to being an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is an Elected Member of the BELMAS Council, Vice-Chair Conference & Events, as well as Co-convenor of the Critical Educational Leadership & Policy Studies BELMAS RIG, and Co-convenor of the Social Theory and Education BERA SIG. She has published in several international top-rated journals, in addition to monographs and edited volumes. She has editorial duties in several journals. She has won awards from the AERA, EERA, and SERA for her publications.

Richard Niesche is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research interest is primarily in critical perspectives in educational leadership. He has published his research in a number of books and peer-reviewed journals, and he is also the Founding Co-editor of the ‘Educational Leadership Theory’ book series with Springer. Recent books published include Social, Critical and Political Theories for Educational Leadership (2019), Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research (2020) and Understanding Educational Leadership: Critical Perspectives and Approaches (2021).