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Since first getting interested in leadership in the early 1980s, I have researched leadership in several different settings: the construction industry; bus companies; community transport organisations; and the police - to name the main ones. I always had a hunch I would end up looking at leadership in higher education, especially since doing research on the introduction of appraisal in universities 15 or so years ago in an investigation funded by the old Department of Education and Science in the UK. Leadership issues sometimes surfaced during the course of that research and it always struck me as something I would return to.
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Bryman, A. (2008). Leadership in Higher Education. In: James, K.T., Collins, J. (eds) Leadership Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584068_10
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