In this episode, Dan and Lauren speak with Dr. Cameron Beatty, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator in the Higher Education program and the Associate Director of the Leadership Learning Research Center at Florida State University. 

During the conversation, Dr. Beatty shares how the group came together to support the call for leadership education to emphasize inclusion, identity, social justice, and equity. The co-authors of Priority #1 of the National Leadership Education Research Agenda (NLERA) state, "we must move beyond theorizing about individual student differences and do more to interrogate the systems and structures involved in the socialization of leadership education.” Additionally, all examine existing research and practice related to the priority. 

Beatty is the lead author and part of the writing team for Priority Number 1, titled “A Call for Centering Social Identities: Priority 1 of the NLERA 2020-25.”

This episode is part of a series of conversations with the lead authors of the nine priorities of the (NLERA) 2020-2025, published in Volume 14, issue 3, of the Journal of Leadership Studies.

In this episode, Dan and Lauren revisit the National Leadership Education Research Agenda 2020-2025 with Drs. Kristan Cilente Skendall and Tony Andenoro. They provide an update on its progress midway through the projected target date of 2025. Kristan and Tony highlight the progress of the research teams ahead of individual episodes featuring authors from each of the nine priorities.

In this episode, Dan and Lauren close the season by highlighting themes from scholarship editors, peer reviewers, and authors. The guests that led publications focused on creating environments where researchers could contribute and support the publications' missions. Researchers commented on developing an aligned agenda and growing scholarship based on personal interests and institutional and leadership education community needs.

In this episode, Dan and Lauren hear from ILA Leadership Scholarship Member Community Chair, Dr. Rich Whitney, and Past-Chair, Dr. Lori Kniffin. The global community leaders discuss the focus of the community and how members can contribute to the scholarship agenda within the association.  

Some of the resources mentioned in this episode include:

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NDSL #171 Special Issue: Advancing Racial Equity in Leadership Education: Centering Marginalized Institutional Contexts With Drs. Rich Whitney and Jasmine Collins

ILA Leadership Scholarship Member Community

ILA Doctoral Consortium

In this episode, Dan and Lauren hear from Drs. Jennifer Moss Breen and Michael Gleason following the Winter 2022 release of the New Directions for Student Leadership Issue #176 on Developing Leaders in Graduate and Professional Settings. The authors share how their personal and professional experiences informed the broader outline of the research and their learnings from the authors' chapters. All discuss the changing nature of graduate leadership education and how the special issue can inform those enrolled in or running master's- and doctoral-level curricula.

In this episode, Dan and Lauren provide insight into the peer review process for conference proposals and academic journals.  Lauren explains her approach to reviewing conference submissions and Dan details the process of reviewing submissions for peer-reviewed journals.

In this episode, Dan and Lauren sit down with Dr. Nathan Eva, Associate Professor, Fulbright Scholar, and co-Director of Engagement for the Department of Management at the Monash University Business School, in Melbourne, Australia.  Nathan shares strategies for researchers from post-doc to mid-career scholars, including identifying your researcher identity, crafting a meaningful research agenda, and identifying a community of scholars to co-author publications. 

Some other things to mention from this episode include:

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Register for the International Leadership Association's Leadership Education Academy (LEA)

Check out Nathan's research productivity here

In this episode, Dan and Lauren discuss the creation and continuation of the New Directions for Student Leadership journal with Editor and Associate Editor, Drs. Kathy Guthrie and V. Chunoo. The group shares how the NDSL editorial team focuses on collaboration and creating a community of leadership educator scholars.

In this episode, Dan and Lauren speak with Drs. Lindsay Hastings and Hannah Sunderman. Lindsay and Hannah started working on research during Hannah's undergraduate career at the University of Nebraska, and have continued to explore leadership education through various partnerships. All discuss the process of creating a research agenda and choosing topics from research for presentation.

Some resources mentioned in this episode include:

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Graduate students and emerging scholars--the deadline to submit a proposal for ILA's Emerging Scholars Research Symposium is April 14th

Check out all of the Association of Leadership Educators' Focus Area Networks (FANs) here

Past ALE Conference Proceedings