Naarah Sawers Author & Editor

Jill Blackmore is Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Education, and Director of the Centre for Research in Educational Futures and Innovation at Deakin University, Australia. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia. Her research interests include education policy and institutional governance from a feminist perspective; educational restructuring and organisational change; and equity policy related to the work of education professionals. Recently she has focused on disengagement with, and lack of diversity in, university leadership, international education, and graduate employability. She is the author of Educational Leadership and Nancy Fraser (2016) and co-editor of Mobile teachers and curriculum in international schooling (2014, with Arber and Vongalis-Macrow). Marita Sánchez-Moreno is Professor in the Department of Teaching and School Organisation at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. Her research interests include gender and leadership in higher education, and the professional development of these leaders; and educational, cultural, and organisational change, innovation, and improvement. She is a founding member of the Network of Research on Leadership and Improvement in Education, and takes part in the International Successful School Principalship Project, and the international Comenius Multilateral Project Professional Learning through Feedback　and Reflection devoted to the training of school leaders. Naarah Sawers is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Education, and teaches in the School of Communications and Creative Arts, at Deakin University, Australia. Her research spans the fields of children’s literature, education, and studies in higher education. Her most recent book is Critical Fictions: Science, Feminism, and Corporeal Subjectivity (2008). She has written for academic journals in cultural studies, literature, and education.