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Dr. Bee Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the Manchester Institute of Education (MIE), University of Manchester. She serves as Deputy Programme Director of the Blended Masters in Educational Leadership in Practice and Deputy Editor of the Management in Education journal. Her roles also include co-convenor of the Critical Education Leadership and Policy Research Group (CELP) and membership in professional societies like BELMAS and BERA. Previously, she held senior leadership roles in schools in Hong Kong and the UK.
Dr. Hughes holds a PhD from the University of Manchester (2020), an MBA from the University of Leicester (2000), and a Bachelor of Education (1985). Her research focuses on educational leadership, critical policy studies, and ethnographic methods, particularly investigating multi-academy trusts and the interplay of agency, power, and structure in leadership practices. She adopts Arendtian thinking to interpret leadership ontology.
Her academic achievements include awards such as the BELMAS 2020 Thesis of the Year and the EMAL Early Career Researcher Award. She currently supervises three PhD students exploring topics like teachers’ identities, pedagogical habitus, and policy constructions of teaching. Dr. Hughes also serves as an External Examiner at the University of East Anglia and actively participates in conferences and editorial work.
Her research outputs span books chapters, editorials, and conference contributions, addressing themes like leadership in crisis, resistance in reform movements, and equity in school partnerships. She frequently engages with media platforms to discuss education leadership challenges and policy implications.
