Jim O'Brien
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Professor
Jim O'Brien
Professor
Emeritus
Dept
of Education & Society
The
Moray House School of Education,
The University of Edinburgh,
Simon
Laurie House, Holyrood
Road,
Edinburgh EH8 8AQ
Scotland, UK
 Email: Jim.O'Brien@ed.ac.uk
Telephone:
+44 (0) 0131 651 6357
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Profile
Jim O'Brien
was a secondary school teacher of history and a
Principal Teacher (Guidance), teaching in comprehensive
schools in the west of Scotland, before taking
up a career in higher education. He then worked
in St Andrew's College of Education, Glasgow as
lecturer, Director of In-Service, and Assistant
Principal (Educational Development). Appointed
to Moray House Institute of Education in 1993 as
Vice Principal, he became the permanent Vice Dean
of the Moray House Faculty/School of Education
in 1998 when the Institute merged with the University
of Edinburgh. He was also Director of the Centre
for Educational Leadership (CEL) and
Head of School from 2007 in The
Moray House School of Education, The
University of Edinburgh. He held a personal Chair
in Leadership and Professional Learning until 30th
September 2009 when he retired. He continues to
research, write, lecture and offer consultancy
in an Emeritus capacity.
His development work and research
interests lie mainly in the
field of continuing professional
development, school improvement
and school leadership. He has
been a member of a number of
national development groups
associated with teacher professional
development and leadership
themes such as Teacher Appraisal
and Professional Review and
Development; the Standard for
Headship and Scottish Qualification
for Headship (SQH) programme;
the Chartered Teacher Standard
and Development Programme,
and the national CPD Advisory
Group on Leadership.
Current research projects/themes include:
- Phase
II study of the new teacher induction scheme
in Scotland;
- Professional
Learning and Leadership: Policy and Practice;
- Policy,
Practice, Standards and Frameworks for Professional
Learning and CPD;
- Editorship
of the UK section of a new International Handbook
on Leadership and Learning
He is
co-Editor of the Education
Policy and Practice Series (Dunedin
Academic Press: Edinburgh), the immediate
past President of the International
Professional Development Association (IPDA),
of which he is a Fellow, an Associate Editor
of the 'Professional
Development in Education' Journal (Taylor & Francis),
a member of the Editorial Board for the journal
'Educational
Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability'
(Springer), and an immediate former board member
of the International
Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement
(ICSEI).
Publications
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Publications on the School's Publications Database
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