The publications listed below can be downloaded in PDF format. If you would like us to send you a hard copy of any publication, please email info@lfhe.ac.uk.
For newsletters that were published before 2008, go to the ENGAGE and In Practice archive.
See the contents listings for all issues of ENGAGE.
ENGAGE, issue 28, Winter 2011/12
Modernisation and Efficiency: Unlocking Good Practice - Professor Ian Diamond on UUK's recent report.? Strategic Reflections: Excellent Research Needs a Gender Dimension by Professor Teresa Rees, Associate Director, Wales, Leadership Foundation unabridged. Learn more about the £1m Innovation and Transformation Fund launch. Engage 28 is also available as a PDF. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE.
In Practice, Issue 28, 2012
Academic motivation: exploring prestige economies
ENGAGE, issue 27, Autumn 2011
Understanding strategy and making it work? Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE. Read Higher Education Reform: Risks and Opportunities by Chris Hale, UUK unabridged. Read the unabridged Book Review - A sense of place ... through the looking glass by Professor Peter Fidler, University of Sunderland. Engage 27 is also available as a PDF
In Practice, Issue 27, 2011
Making Sense of Academic Leadership
ENGAGE, issue 26, Summer 2011
A PVC's Portfolio. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE. Read Rethinking Our Purpose by Sir Andrew Cubie, chair, Leadership Foundation unabridged. Engage 26 is also available as a PDF.
In Practice, Round Table, 2011
A New Deal for HE
ENGAGE, issue 25, Spring 2011
The Browne Report Six Months On. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE. Read The Browne Report: Six Months On by David Allen, registrar and deputy chief executive, University of Exeter unabridged. Engage 25 is also available as a PDF.
In Practice, issue 26, 2011
Managing Change at LJMU
ENGAGE, issue 24, Winter 2010/11
A New Landscape for Higher Education. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE.
Centre Pages
Critical times, creative responses. The 2010 Staff Development Conference.
ENGAGE, issue 23, Autumn 2010
Editorial: Building Resilience in the Face of Unprecedented Change. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE.
In Practice, issue 25, 2010
New Laws: New Opportunities.
ENGAGE, issue 22, Summer 2010
Internationalisation: Changing Lives, Opening Minds: Professor Elspeth Jones on an Embedded Approach. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE.
In Practice, issue 24, 2010
Collaborating across time and space: a software-based approach to facilitation.
ENGAGE, issue 21, Spring 2010
What do I know now that I wish I'd known then?: Ewart Wooldridge on Leadership Lessons. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE. Read Academic Leadership: Dimensions, dysfunctions and dynamics by Dr Tom Kennie and Holding the mirror up: Chinese higher education leaders report on leadership challenges in the UK and China by Professor Robin Middlehurst, John Fielden and David Lock unabridged.
In Practice, issue 23, 2010
Leading Cities and Places: A new transformational 'place-based' leadership development programme.
ENGAGE, issue 20, Winter 2009
Leadership coaching: does it really add value? and More women trailblazers needed: an interview with Nirmala Rao. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE. Read Leading Lines by Sara Parkin unabridged.
In Practice, issue 22, 2009
Evaluation Leadership Impact: Dr Paul Gentle on a capacity building model.
ENGAGE, issue 19, Autumn 2009
Leading across boundaries. Interview: Wes Streeting, NUS, on reversing the trend in marketisation. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE. Read Leading Lines by James Ross unabridged.
In Practice, issue 21, 2009
Team working: an anathema to academics?
ENGAGE, issue 18, Summer 2009
The management of academic workloads: creating a community of good practice. Interview: Chris Cobb, Roehampton University, on an architecture for change. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE.
Anniversary Supplement, Summer 2009
This house believes that universities are now irresistibly creatures of markets: a debate to mark the Leadership Foundation's fifth anniversary
Scottish Update, issue 6, June 2009
Issue 6 of our newsletter for Scotland looks at WHAT WAS/WHAT NEXT, a recent report by Universities Scotland, plus there is a conversation with David Caldwell on his retirement, and Graeme Whyte looks back on the 2008 Staff Development Conference in Edinburgh.
ENGAGE, issue 17, Spring 2009
Leadership Summit 2009 tackles governance. Interview: Professor Elaine Thomas on leading creative people. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE.
In Practice, issue 20, 2009
Effective governance in HE: perspectives and practice
ENGAGE, issue 16, Winter 2008-09
Running universities in challenging times. Ewart Wooldridge reflects on coping with change. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE. You can also view low resolution short video clips from the Steve Egan interview with Philip Sullivan.
In Practice, issue 18, 2009
The impact of Change Academy: A story of organisational development and changing culture by Nigel Dandy, head of the academic support office, University of York
In Practice, issue 19, 2009
Towards the sustainable university by Dr Peter Hopkinson, senior lecturer in environmental economics and management, University of Bradford
ENGAGE, issue 15, Autumn 2008
A career in higher education: inspiration, opportunity, luck. Professor Alison Wride, deputy head of the School of Business and Economics at the University of Exeter, on her unusual career. Use this ENGAGE Contents link to see the contents page for this edition of ENGAGE.
In Practice, issue 17, 2008
Hefce’s crystal ball? Students as scholars, employees, leaders and managers?
ENGAGE, issue 14, Summer 2008
Leading the fundraising dance: Dr Lesly Huxley talks to vice-chancellors Eric Thomas (Bristol), Shirley Pearce (Loughborough) and Janet Beer (Oxford Brookes) on philanthropy in higher education. See detailed contents for this edition.
In Practice, issue 16, 2008
Reflections on the University of Kwazulu-Natal merger – Professor Malegapuru W Makgoba, vice-chancellor and principal shares his experiences.
Scottish Update, issue 5, June 2008
Issue 5 of our newsletter for Scotland introduces the team in Scotland and reviews the work of the Advisory Group.
ENGAGE, issue 13, 2008
This issue features an interview with Professor David Delpy, former vice-provost of UCL, now chief executive and deputy chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on leading change in a research landscape. See detailed contents for this edition.
In Practice, issue 15, 2008
Making the case for staff networks by Dr Scott Gaule and Meriel Box, Liverpool John Moores University.
Earlier editions of ENGAGE and IN PRACTICE can be found here ENGAGE and INPRACTICE Archive.