Staff profiles
Professor Tim Simkins
Head of leadership and management
Phone 0114 225 4985
Email t.j.simkins@shu.ac.uk
Tim is a professor of education management and a member of the leadership team of the Centre for Education and Inclusion Research. He has more than 25 years experience of teaching and researching leadership and management in education. He is a former chair, and currently honorary secretary of the British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society.
Tim has designed, managed and contributed to a wide range of CPD programmes for education leaders and managers in the UK and overseas and has acted as a consultant to a number of international development agencies in the designing and evaluation of management development programme and the development and evaluation of resourcing systems. He has also led and participated in a range of research and evaluation projects for government agencies. He has a particular interest in the interface between national policy and institutional management, organisational and resource management issues in schools and colleges, evaluation of leadership development programmes and educational leadership in developing countries. He has published widely in these areas.
Recent research projects include evaluations of a number of the programmes for the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services and evaluation of the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) Testbed project on developing the whole school workforce.
Selected publications
Coldwell, M. and Simkins, T (2010) Level models of continuing professional development evaluation: a grounded review and critique. Professional Development in Education 37 (1); 143-57
Simkins, T. (2009) 'Integrating work-based learning into large-scale national leadership development programmes in the UK.' Educational Review, 61(4); 391-405
Simkins, T. and Close, P.(2009). 'Work-shadowing as a process for facilitating leadership development in primary schools.' School Leadership and Management, 29(3): 239-252.
Simkins, T., Coldwell,M., Close, P. and Morgan, A.(2009). 'Outcomes of in-school leadership development work: a study of three NCSL programmes.' Educational Management Administration and Leadership 37(1): 29-50.
Simkins, T, Maxwell, B, Aspinwall, K (2009) Developing the whole school workforce in England: building cultures of engagement Journal of Professional Development in Education, 35(3): 433-450
Simkins T, Close P, Morgan A, Pocklington K (2008) Evaluation of the Roll-out of Leadership Pathways - Final Report for the National College for School Leadership
Coldwell M, Simkins T, Coldron J, Smith R, Aspinwall K, Close P, Elliot N, Garrett Viv, Maxwell B, Wainwright J, Willis B, Wolstenholme C (2008) Developing the whole school workforce - An evaluation of the Testbed programme (Final Report, PDF 270KB) for the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA)
Simkins T, Coldwell M, Close P, Morgan A (2007) Outcomes of in-school leadership development work: a study of three NCSL programmes in Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 37 (1): 29-50
Simkins, T and Close, P (2006) Leadership Pathways: Design Stage Study for the National College for School Leadership
Simkins, T. (2005) 'Leadership in education: ''What works' or 'what makes sense'?', Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, 33, 1, pp. 9-26
Simkins, T. (2004) 'School finance and equity in England : an analysis of strategies and consequences', Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, 32, 4, pp. 369-386
Aspinwall, K., Garrett , V. and Simkins, T. (2003) 'All about Learning': a report on the role of the school-based consultant and the evaluation system for NE Sheffield EAZ
Aspinwall, K., and Simkins, T. (2003) Enrichment and Engagement: a report on the work of the Learning Together EAZ, Sheffield
Simkins, T. Sisum, C. and Memon, M. (2003) 'School leadership in Pakistan: exploring the headteacher's role', School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 14, 3, pp. 275-292
Simkins, T. (2002) 'Reform, accountability and strategic choice in education', in Preedy, M., Glatter, and Wise, C. (eds.) Strategic Leadership and Accountability, London: Paul Chapman
Simkins, T. and Lumby, J. (2002) 'Cultural transformation in further education? Mapping the debate', Research in Post Compulsory Education, 7, 1, pp. 9-26
Simkins, T., Smith, R., Coldron, J., and Aspinwall, K. (2002) 'Models of the diffusion of good practice: an analysis of key initiatives in England', in Buchberger, F. and Berghammer, S. (eds.) Education Policy Analysis in a Comparative Perspective, Linz , Austria: Universitatsverlag Rudolf Trauner
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