Theme: Who or What is Educational Leadership for? Thinking about Purposes in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration
Start: Friday 5th July 2024 | 12pm
Finish: Sunday 7th July 2024 | 2pm
The Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel
Beardmore St, Glasgow, Clydebank G81 4SA
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The Keynote Speakers for the BELMAS 2024 conference were: Dr. Richard Niesche (Australia), Dr. Saeeda Shah (England) and Prof. Walter Humes (Scotland).
All pictures from the 2024 Conference can be found here
DSA Winner, Marianne Coleman, accepting her award from DSA Panel Chair, Helen Gunter.
Of her award, Marianne said:
‘It was a delightful surprise to learn that I had been awarded the BELMAS DSA this year and wonderful to know that my work was recognised as being worthy of the honour.
I really valued the opportunity to attend part of the 2024 conference and to meet up with friends I had not seen for some time as well as meeting new colleagues.
Within the wider field of educational leadership and management my main focus has been on how leadership impacts on, and is affected by, issues of diversity and inclusion especially gender, so I am delighted that this area has been highlighted by the award. I am also delighted that the Gender RIG is so well established in BELMAS, and that it contains such wonderful scholars who continue to push forward, expanding our understanding of practice and theory in relation to gender and educational leadership.
I would like to thank the members of the RIG for all their support, Helen, for her lovely speech in handing over the award, and Deb, Ryan and others who looked after me so beautifully at the conference. As I am no longer actively engaged in educational leadership and management and BELMAS activities, I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Tony Bush who gave me so many opportunities at the start of my career in our field and to remember my dear friend, colleague and writing partner Jacky Lumby who I greatly miss. How lucky I was to work with such wonderful colleagues at Leicester and at the Institute of Education and to work on something about which I am passionate: education for fairness and equity for all.’
DSA Winner, Steven Courtney, accepting his award from DSA Panel Chair, Helen Gunter.
Of his award, Steven said:
‘I feel overjoyed and very grateful to BELMAS for the great honour of this Distinguished Service Award. It is a huge privilege to be recognised in this way alongside the titans of our field.
Thanks to this award, I now look forward enormously to giving back to BELMAS and to the field as a member of BELMAS’ Distinguished Service Award advisory board.’
To view past DSA winners, click HERE.
EMAL Best Paper Winners are: Meng Tian and Graham Nutbrown. Here, Meng Tian is accepting her award from Justine Hope and Alexander Gardner-McTaggart.
EMAL ECR Best Paper Winner, Stina Jerdborg, accepting her award from Justine Hope and Alexander Gardner-McTaggart.
The MiE Board Choice Winners are: Marjolein Zee, Debora .L Roorda and Fadie Hanna. Here, Marjolein Zee and Fadie Hanna accept their award from Justine Hope and Alexander Gardner-McTaggart.
Our 2024 Doctoral Thesis Award winner is Abdullah Slman Albalwi. Here, Abdullah’s supervisor, René Koglbauer, accepts the award on his behalf from BELMAS Chair, Deb Outhwaite.
Our 2024 Doctoral Thesis Award Runners Up are: Suzie Dick and Abdulaziz Aldahmashi. Here, Suzie Dick accepts her award from BELMAS Chair, Deb Outhwaite.
Our 2024 Best BELMAS Blog winners are: Peter Wolstencroft and Maria Allen. Here, Peter Wolstencroft accepts his award from BELMAS Chair, Deb Outhwaite.
Our 2024 Best Conference Paper winner is: Nidal Al Haj Sleiman, for her paper, ‘Leading Education for Equity and Social Justice in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI): An Analysis of Principals’ Perspectives, Practices, and Reponses to Policy’.
Our 2024 Best ECR Conference Paper winner is: Karen Healey, for her paper, ‘Typologising Parent Roles for ‘Modern’ School Governance and Leadership in a Corporatised Field‘.
Our 2024 Best ECR Conference Paper runner-up is: Claire Harley, for her paper, ‘Teachers’ Perceptions of Educational Research; A Study of Teachers’ Meaning Making and Views of Educational Research in the Context of the ‘What Works’ Agenda ‘.
A huge congratulations to all our 2024 BELMAS Conference Award Winners!
