Deborah Netolicky talks to Dr Paul Campbell about teaching, leading, pracademia, and collaboration. Paul is Vice Principal of ESF Sha Tin Junior School in Hong Kong, with responsibility for learning, teaching, and assessment, professional learning, quality assurance, and child protection and safeguarding. Paul is also on a partial secondment to the ESF Centre for Research where he leads the 'Seeds of Leadership' programme. He is also a Partner Tutor at the University of Dundee working on MEd programmes in Educational Studies, and External Reviewer for MEd programmes at the University of Hong Kong. Paul is Chair of the International Professional Development Association (IPDA), and is co-coordinator of the educational leadership network for the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI). Paul is also on the editorial board of the journal, Management in Education (MiE), and sits on the advisory board for the Leadership for Professional Learning (LfPL) symposium. Paul recently completed his doctorate at the University of Glasgow where he researched the context, governance, and leadership of collaboration for school and system-wide improvement.

Want to know more?

- Paul’s PhD thesis ‘Collaboration – the ubiquitous panacea for challenges in education': https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82883/

- Paper on pracademia ‘Defining and exploring pracademia: identity, community, and engagement’: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JPCC-05-2021-0026/full/html

- Paul’s blog: https:/mrcampbell91.wordpress.com/

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