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Prof Bill Mulford

Emeritus Professor

"BEd, MEd, TPTC, PhD"

Contact Details

Contact Campus Sandy Bay Campus
Building Hytten Hall
Room Reference H304
Telephone +61 3 6226 2523
Fax +61 3 6226 2523
Email Bill.Mulford@utas.edu.au

General Responsibilities

Professor Bill Mulford is an internationally recognised educator with a deep interest and extensive research and publication record in the areas of educational leadership, educational change and school effectiveness and improvement.

His most recent book, published by the Australian Council for Educational Research is The leadership challenge: Improving learning in schools and he is the editor for the Leadership and Management Section of the 2010 edition of International Encyclopaedia of Education, published by Elsevier in Oxford.

A former teacher, school principal, Assistant Director of Education, Faculty Dean, and Chair of a university Academic Senate, Professor Mulford has high legitimacy within the profession and universities. Adviser to numerous state and national Departments of Education and a consultant to international organisations such as OECD and UNESCO, he is also currently a member of the International Successful School Principals Research Project, and the International Leadership in Education Research Network, a group of twenty leading researchers in the area formed to push the edges of thinking and research on leadership in education.

Honorary Professor Mulford has completed major papers on school leadership commissioned by UNESCO and the OECD and by governments in Australia, Singapore and England (the National College for School Leadership).

Publications

  • B. Mulford & H. Silins (In press). Organisational learning in schools. In E. Baker, B. McGaw & P. Peterson (eds). International encyclopaedia of education. Oxford: Elsevier.
  • B. Mulford & B. Edmunds (2009). Successful school principalship in Tasmania. Launceston, Tasmania: Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania.
  • B. Mulford, S. Johns & B. Edmunds (2009). Successful school principalship in Tasmania: Case Studies. Launceston, Tasmania: Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania.
  • B. Mulford, B. Edmunds, J. Ewington, L. Kendall, D. Kendall, & H. Silins. (2009). Successful school principalship in late-career. Journal of Educational Administration, (47)1, 36-49
  • B. Mulford. (2008). Learning about school leadership in Australia. J. McBeath & Yin Cheong Cheng. (eds). Leadership for learning: International perspectives. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishing. Pp. 142-157.
  • B. Mulford. (2008). The leadership challenge: Improving learning in schools. Camberwell, Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research Australian Education Review #53. (Can be downloaded for free at: http://research.acer.edu.au/aer/2/)
  • B. Mulford. (2007). Overview of research on Australian educational leadership 2001-2005. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Leaders Monograph No. 40.
  • B. Mulford. (2007).The challenge of building social capital in professional learning communities. In L. Stoll, and K. Seashore Louis. (eds). Professional learning communities: Divergence, depth and dilemmas. London: Open University Press/McGraw Hill. Pp.166-180.
  • B. Mulford. (2007). Successful school leadership: What and who decides?. Australian Journal of Education. 51(3), 228-246.
  • Mulford, B, (2006) ‘Leading change for student achievement’, Journal of Educational Change, 7(1-2), 39-48
  • Mulford, B, (2006) ‘Successful school principalship in Tasmania’, in Day, C, & Leithwood, K, (Eds) Making a difference: Successful school leadership in eight countries. London: Springer, pp 14-27
  • Mulford, B, (2005) ‘The international context for research in educational leadership’, Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 33(2), 139-154

Professor Bill Mulford is an internationally recognised educator with a deep interest and extensive research and publication record in the areas of educational leadership, educational change and school effectiveness and improvement.

His most recent book, published by the Australian Council for Educational Research is The leadership challenge: Improving learning in schools and he is the editor for the Leadership and Management Section of the 2010 edition of International Encyclopaedia of Education, published by Elsevier in Oxford.

A former teacher, school principal, Assistant Director of Education, Faculty Dean, and Chair of a university Academic Senate, Professor Mulford has high legitimacy within the profession and universities. Adviser to numerous state and national Departments of Education and a consultant to international organisations such as OECD and UNESCO, he is also currently a member of the International Successful School Principals Research Project, and the International Leadership in Education Research Network, a group of twenty leading researchers in the area formed to push the edges of thinking and research on leadership in education.

Honorary Professor Mulford has completed major papers on school leadership commissioned by UNESCO and the OECD and by governments in Australia, Singapore and England (the National College for School Leadership).