We are pleased to welcome a further eight Small Development Projects that have been approved for funding by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. These awards will allow research and development to take place that otherwise would have been unlikely to have been sponsored locally without our support. Member higher education institutions host these projects, often supplying considerable additional resources and staff time to supplement the Leadership Foundation funding, and we value the partnerships and added benefit that these opportunities bring. We are convinced that these projects provide excellent value for money, and are a stimulus for both extended discussion, and for further development and action far and above the investment committed.
The 2010 Small Development Projects range from exploring leadership of HEIs in the turbulent context of the regenerating inner city (University of Salford), to the approaches adopted for leadership and management of satellite campuses in HE (University of Hull). Research into academics motivation (King's College London), and further exploration of models for effective performance review (University of Leicester) should support help develop leaders’ effectiveness in these typically complex areas. Organisation development projects include a comparison of approaches to the promotion of continuous improvement (Manchester Metropolitan University), leading change through people and developing closer partnerships across the HR functions (University of Aberystwyth) and a review of the synergies between Human Resources and Staff Development (University of Manchester). The final award is to support the development of Desktop Action Learning (Loughborough University), taking this valuable and proven learning process into a distance or virtual mode.
Full details of the successful projects can be found here
Last updated: 31 March 2010