Research Centres

NILE - Newman Institute for Leadership in Education

The centre offers a client-based partnership service and a portfolio aimed at the production and delivery of research, knowledge transfer and consultancy.

Three key areas of work in NILE are: leadership and management within schools and higher education institutions (HEIs), including Catholic school leadership and management; pedagogic leadership; and the leadership and management of pastoral care. These are embedded in a wider range of evaluative research and audit services, institutional improvement interventions and accredited/non-accredited CPD.

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Benefits

  • NILE is a new hub for a growing network of services offered by the Faculty of Education at Newman University. It will be of special interest to colleagues involved in leadership in schools and HEIs, and more generally pastoral care in all educational institutions, including school governors and other professionals, seeking support in order to develop knowledge and understanding of leadership to respond to specific issues the development of values-based approaches to leading specific issues facing school leaders and educational leaders today
  • Non-accredited learning
  • National professional recognition via the Teaching & Learning Academy
  • Masters level academic accreditation eg Postgraduate Certificates and MA Education awards in: Leadership & Management in Education; Catholic School Leadership; Safeguarding etc.
  • Invitations to arrange events regarding leadership in education

Specialities

  • Accredited/ non-accredited learning / CPD in Leadership & Management
  • Consultancy, knowledge transfer and knowledge management
  • Practitioner enquiry & Participatory Action Research
  • Organisational learning and institutional improvement
  • Learning & pedagogic leadership
  • Leading pastoral care
  • Faith-based leadership & school management

Areas of expertise

  • Assessment-led Pedagogy
  • Change Management
  • Chaplaincy
  • Creative Leadership
  • Early Childhood Education and Care
  • Education Policy
  • Governance
  • Individual Differences
  • Learning
  • Mentoring & Coaching
  • Multi-Professional Learning
  • Pastoral Care
  • Pedagogy
  • School Improvement
  • Technology
  • Youth Work 

Affiliations

  • Birmingham Catholic Primary Partnership
  • British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society
  • British Education Research Association
  • Catholic Association of Secondary Head Teachers
  • Catholic Education Service
  • Birmingham RC Diocesan Education Service
  • Leadership Foundation in Higher Education
  • Cardinal Newman Society
  • Titan Partnership

The National Association for Pastoral Care in Education

For alumni, those employed in a partner organisation, Birmingham Catholic Primary

Partnership members and Titan Partnership members, there is a 10% discount on masters level fees.

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NILE - Newman Institute for Leadership in Education

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