BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240123T160217Z DTSTART:20240228T163000Z DTEND:20240228T183000Z SUMMARY:SEED Inaugural Lectures UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}h2n7-lrqait 9z-ge9kw7 DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 28 February\, join the School of Environment\, E ducation and Development at The University of Manchester for inaugural l ectures from Steven Courtney\, Professor of Sociology of Education Leade rship and Deljana Iossifova\, Professor of Architecture and Urban Studie s\, from 4.30pm - 6.30pm. \n\nOur inaugural lectures provide an opportun ity to celebrate the achievements and career progression of recently app ointed professors as they share insights into their research and highlig ht the latest developments in their discipline.\n\nPlease register at yo ur earliest convenience\, this will allow us to cater appropriately: htt ps://uomseed.ticketleap.com/inaugural-lectures-feb-2024/\n\n________\n\n Steven Courtney\, Professor of Sociology of Education\n\nTOWARDS A NEW M ETHODOLOGY FOR CRITICAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY SCHOLARSHIP\n\nIn this lec ture\, I will draw on my intellectual journey as a researcher to elabora te the need for\, and features of a new methodology for critical researc hers: “critical education leadership and policy scholarship”.\n\nMethodo logies in education leadership\, management and administration (ELMA) ha ve long been inadequate\, partly because most ELMA research is functiona list\, and so uses positivist methodologies. For functionalist ELMA rese archers\, leadership is fetishised and largely seen as the product of in dividuals’ traits\, behaviours and activities\, with ‘context’ reduced t o a variable. Critical researchers\, including me\, reject these ideas\, seeing that we are part of the research process and our dispositions an d histories inevitably influence our data. Critical ELMA researchers mus t therefore look beyond functionalist methodologies. However\, one of th e most common alternatives\, policy scholarship\, over-compensates for f unctionalism’s limitations by enabling arguments that merely using the w ord ‘leadership’ is dangerous\, or that researching it is frivolous. I a rgue in this lecture for a new methodology that neither fetishises nor d emonises leadership\, one that enables critical researchers to recognise and work with a form of leadership that is always co-constituted with p olicy and which merits conceptual and empirical recognition. I call this new methodology ‘critical education leadership and policy scholarship’. \n\n \n\nDeljana Iossifova\, Professor of Architecture and Urban Studie s\n\nENTANGLEMENT AND CONTRADICTION\n\nI reflect on efforts to reconcile contradiction in research on entanglement as a metaphor for interconnec tedness and interdependence across presumed borders and scales.\n\nBorde rs and boundaries are conventional constructs often used to demarcate sp aces of difference\, both geographically and metaphorically. Entanglemen t suggests a state of interconnectedness and interdependence\, blurring the lines that typically define such spaces. In this talk\, I use the me taphor of entanglement to work through my interest in the messy relation ships between objects\, bodies\, people\, practices\, lifeforms\, events \, and processes as they unfold across spatial and temporal scales. I br iefly reflect on efforts to reconcile ontological\, epistemological\, an d methodological contradictions in my research and close in asking: what ’s architecture got to do with it?\n\n________\n \n\nF?ollowing the lect ures\, guests will have the opportunity to ask questions to our speakers before being invited to join us for drinks and networking from 6.00 - 6 .30pm.\n\nThis is an in-person event\, a recording will be published fol lowing. STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:Cordingley Lecture Theatre\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manc hester END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR