Annual International Conference

In February each year, the Centre organises an immensely well-received International Conference on Educational Leadership on a topical theme selected by its Conference Management Committee. The Conference theme for the recently completed 2006 Conference was Distributive Leadership: Implications for Practice. Leading Learning Communities: Strategy, Action and Reflection has been chosen as the focus for the 2007 Conference. Click here to view the conference home page for the current year

The main attraction of the Centre's Annual Conference is the outstanding array of international and local keynote speakers and workshop presenters, and the judicious balance between research and practitioner perspectives. Over the past five years Conference speakers/presenters have included Ms Christine Nixon APM, Prof. Stephen Kagan, Dr Margaret Wheatley, and Prof. Myron Rogers (USA); Prof. Patrick Duignan, Prof. Jenny Gore, Prof. Geoff Scott and Prof. Steve Dinham (Australia), Prof. Carol Cardno (New Zealand), and Prof. Pat Thompson (UK).

Participants in our conferences are typically school leaders, teachers, school leadership teams, and systemic administrators from government and non-government education sectors, management educators and university academics.

The Conference is cosponsored by the University of Wollongong Faculty of Education, the Catholic Diocese of Wollongong, NSW Department of Education and Training, and the Australian College of Educators. Click here to view other professional development opportunities.

Conference Proceedings

2004, 2005, 2006

The views, findings, and opinions expressed by conference presenters and participants are not necessarily those of the Centre or the University of Wollongong.