Projects
Leadership development for public sector performance: a longitudinal field experiment in an educational context KU Leuven
Leadership and leadership development have been an important area of study for many public administration scholars for the past few decades. However, a thorough understanding of how leadership development can improve leadership behaviour and thus increase organisational performance in the public sector is still missing. This research project addresses the need for more rigorous empirical research to examine leadership in public administration ...
LEAD2: Enhancing academic Leadership and Governance of Chinese and European Universities in the context of Innovation and Internationalization. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Shared Leadership – The Key to Optimal Team Functioning? KU Leuven
Leadership, and especially effective leadership, has inspired authors from the oldest works in literature (e.g., The Odyssey) up to recent authors (e.g., John C. Maxwell, Simon Sinek, and Brené Brown). The age-old fascination for the perfect leadership model is almost akin to the search for the holy grail. Much like the tales on this legendary quest appealed to people’s fascination, the allure of great leadership has also inspired ...
Leadership development for public sector performance: a longitudinal field experiment in an educational context KU Leuven
Leadership and leadership development have been an important area of study for many public administration scholars for the past few decades. However, a thorough understanding of how leadership development can improve leadership behaviour and thus increase organisational performance in the public sector is still missing. This research project addresses the need for more rigorous empirical research to examine leadership in public administration ...
From sensemaking to school improvement? Exploring educational professionals' use of school performance feedback KU Leuven
Purposeful and systematic data use has a positive impact on the quality of educational decisions (Rossi et al., 2004). However, research has shown that Flemish schools make limited use of pupil outcome data, benchmarks, standardized assessment and feedback from scientific research in order to shape their policy and practice (Van Gasse et al., 2015; Vanlommel et al., 2017). In this doctoral project, we investigated to what extent and in what ...
(How) Does output information from external monitoring enrich school policy and practice? Exploring factors that influence improvement-oriented use of school performance feedback from Flemish national assessments and parallel tests. University of Antwerp
Challenges to the Chinese educational system: the critical status of school autonomy Ghent University
This PhD research focuses on the development and evaluation of a model in relation to School Autonomy in the Chinese setting and how this is related to principal and teacher variables. The study is set up in Chinese senior middle schools. Clear questions are asked about the impact on school performance. The following research questions are dealt with: RQ1: What levels of school autonomy can be distinguished in the Chinese high school ...