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Dr Michelle Anderson

Position:

Principal Research Fellow  

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Division:

Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation 

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Location:

Melbourne 

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Publications:

http://works.bepress.com/michelle_anderson/ 

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Qualifications:

BEd Rusden, MEd Melb, PhD London

 

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Dr Michelle Anderson

Dr Michelle Anderson is a Principal Research Fellow in the Teaching Learning and Leadership program area at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

Michelle is the Project Director of the Tender Bridge™, ACER’s national research and development service. Michelle initiated this service for school leaders (aspiring and serving) to help them grow and resource their great educational projects to maximise impact. As part of the Tender Bridge, Michelle is leading a multi-year national research and development project, LLEAP (Leading Learning in Education and Philanthropy). The Ian Potter Foundation are funding and partnering with the Tender Bridge team in this project to research the impact of philanthropy in education. The project canvasses education and philanthropic perspectives.

Michelle joined ACER after two years with the National College for School Leadership in England where she researched the leadership and facilitation of school-to-school networks. Prior to NCSL, Michelle was the inaugural Executive Manager at the Royal Children’s Hospital Education Institute. During this time, Michelle was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate strategies and initiatives for a stronger health and education interface. Michelle began her career as a secondary school teacher and worked for a period with Victoria’s Education Department in head office roles.

Michelle has published widely with recent co-authored publications in ACER’s Educational Dialogue Series: Learning for leadership and the International Handbook of the Preparation and Development of School Leaders. At ACER, other recent highlights include working with principals to develop ‘storied accounts’ of leading small schools. This work includes an Education Dialogue Series publication, ‘A Collective Act: Leading a Small School’ (2010), the joint leadership of a national forum and Co-Editing a Special Issue (forthcoming) of the Australian Journal of Education (AJE). In 2010, Michelle was awarded an Australian Council of Educational Leaders (ACEL) Fellowship (Victoria) in recognition of having made a significant contribution to leadership in Victoria. Michelle’s PhD with the University of London, Institute of Education, examined ‘Leading Teachers and the struggle for change in a multiple campus school’. Her research interests are leadership and inclusion.

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