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Professor Richard Niesche

Professor Richard Niesche

Professor

BA; Dip Mus; GradDipEd; MEd (Leadership); PhD (Education)

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Education

Richard Niesche is Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research interests are primarily in critical perspectives in educational leadership, the principalship and social justice. He has published his research widely in a number of books, book chapters and peer reviewed journals. He is also the founding co-editor of the ‘Educational Leadership Theory’ book series with Springer. Some recent books published include Social, Critical and Political Theories for Educational Leadership (2019), Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research (2020), and Understanding Educational Leadership: Critical Perspectives and Approaches (2021). He currently has forthcoming books with the leading international publishers, Bloomsbury and Routledge.
Phone
+61 2 9065 1622
E-mail
r.niesche@unsw.edu.au
Location
G16 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2020
    Niesche R; Heffernan A, 2020, Introduction
    Books | 2020
    Niesche R; Heffernan A, 2020, Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research,
    Books | 2019
    Niesche R; Gowlett C, 2019, Social, Critical and Political Theories for Educational Leadership, Springer, Singapore,
    Books | 2015
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2015, Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice, Routledge, London and New York,
    Books | 2013
    Eacott S; Niesche R, 2013, Empirical Leadership Research: Letting the Data Speak for Themselves, Eacott S; Niesche R, (ed.), Untested Ideas Research Centre, Niagara Falls
    Books | 2013
    Niesche R, 2013, Deconstructing Educational Leadership: Derrida and Lyotard, Routledge
    Books | 2011
    Jorgensen R; Sullivan P; Grootenboer P; Niesche R; Lerman S; Boaler J, 2011, Maths in the Kimberley: Reforming Mathematics Education in Remote Indigenous Communities, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University
    Books | 2011
    Niesche R, 2011, Foucault and Educational Leadership: Disciplining the Principal, Routledge
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Niesche R; Keddie A; Macdonald K; Eacott S; Gobby B; Wilkinson J; Blackmore J, 2024, 'Theorising principals’ resistance and compliance as part of school autonomy reforms in Australian public education', in Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration, pp. 24 - 37,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Niesche R, 2023, 'Developing Critical Approaches to Educational Leadership', in Critical Education Policy and Leadership Studies: The Intellectual Contributions of Helen M. Gunter, pp. 101 - 112,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Niesche R, 2023, 'Educational Leadership as a (Consumer) Culture Industry', in Educational Leadership and Critical Theory: What Can School Leaders Learn from the Critical Theorists, pp. 57 - 74
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Gowlett C; Niesche R, 2022, 'Populism in Australian education', in Populism and Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy, Routledge, pp. 176 - 187,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Gowlett C; Niesche R, 2022, 'Populism in Australian education: Implications for educational leadership', in Populism and Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy: International Perspectives, pp. 176 - 187,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Niesche R, 2022, 'Educational leadership, critique and the critical researcher', in Mifsud D (ed.), Narratives of Educational Leadership: Representing Research via Creative Analytic Practices, Springer, pp. 21 - 34,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Niesche R, 2022, 'The Sublime, Affect Phrasing, and Les Petits Narratives in Educational Leadership', in Existential Crises in Educational Administration and Leadership: Existential Anxiety and Loss of Meaning in the Gaze of Munch’s ‘The Scream’, pp. 38 - 54,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Eacott S; Niesche R, 2021, 'Educational and instructional leadership', in Understanding Educational Leadership: Critical Perspectives and Approaches, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 221 - 236,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Niesche R, 2021, 'The Archaeology of Educational Leadership as an Enunciative Field', in The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 14,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Niesche R, 2021, 'The archaeology of educational leadership as an enunciative field', in English F (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse, Palgrave, pp. 9 - 21,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Heffernan A; Niesche R, 2020, 'What does this book contribute to understandings of educational leadership, leaders' identities and subjectivities?', in Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational leadership Research, Routledge, pp. 206 - 212,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Niesche R; Heffernan A, 2020, 'Introduction', in Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research, Routledge,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Niesche R, 2020, 'Hacia un liderazgo socialmente justo (Socially just leadership)', in Weinstein J; Munoz G (ed.), Liderazgo En Escuelas De Alta Complejidad Sociocultural Diez Miradas (Leadership in schools of high sociocultural complexity: Ten looks), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, pp. 222 - 244,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Niesche R, 2020, 'Subjectivity and the school principal: Governing at the intersection of power and truth', in Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research, pp. 141 - 154
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Niesche R, 2020, 'Subjectivity and the school principal: Governing at the intersection of power and truth', in Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research, Routledge, pp. 140 - 153,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Niesche R, 2019, 'Educational (Leadership) and Pharmakon', in Pederzini G (ed.), Considering Leadership Anew A Handbook on Alternative Leadership Theory, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 115 - 125,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Eacott S; Niesche R, 2018, 'The Principal and School Improvement Theorising Discourse, Policy, and Practice Series Editors' Foreword', in PRINCIPAL AND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT: THEORISING DISCOURSE, POLICY, AND PRACTICE, SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD, pp. V - VII,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Niesche R, 2018, 'School and principal autonomy: Resisting, not manufacturing, the neoliberal subject', in Wilkinson J; Niesche R; Eacott S (ed.), Challenges for public education: Reconceptualising educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 31 - 43,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Wilkinson J; Eacott S; Niesche R, 2018, 'Challenges for public education', in Challenges for Public Education, Routledge, pp. 1 - 13,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Wilkinson J; Eacott S; Niesche R, 2018, 'Challenges for public education: Perils and possibilities for educational leadership, policy and social justice', in Wilkinson J; Niesche R; Eacott S (ed.), Challenges for public education: Reconceptualising educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 1 - 15,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Gowlett C; Niesche R, 2017, 'Learner diversity and school practices', in Gobby B; Walker R (ed.), Powers of Curriculum: Sociological perspectives on Education, Oxford University Press, Melbourne Victoria, pp. 353 - 372,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Keddie A; Niesche R, 2017, 'The role of ethical practices in pursuing socially just leadership', in Wilkinson J; Bristol L (ed.), Educational Leadership as a Culturally-Constructed Practice, Routledge, Milton Park, Abingdon, pp. 40 - 53,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Niesche R; Thomson P, 2017, 'Freedom to what ends?-School autonomy in neoliberal times', in Waite D; Bogotch I (ed.), The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership, Wiley Blackwell, New Jersey, pp. 193 - 206,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Niesche R, 2017, 'Foucault and Educational Administration', in Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 837 - 842,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2016, 'Advocacy, truth-telling and counter-conduct as practices of socially just leadership at Ridgeway', in LEADERSHIP, ETHICS AND SCHOOLING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 89 - 104,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2016, 'Advocacy, truth-telling and counter-conduct as practices of socially just leadership in the Clementine-led alliance', in LEADERSHIP, ETHICS AND SCHOOLING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 127 - 146,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2016, 'Contexts of educational leadership and social justice', in LEADERSHIP, ETHICS AND SCHOOLING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 13 - 49,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2016, 'Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice Introduction', in LEADERSHIP, ETHICS AND SCHOOLING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 1 - 11,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2016, 'Ridgeway State High School Articulating a telos of social justice', in LEADERSHIP, ETHICS AND SCHOOLING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 69 - 87,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2016, 'The Clementine-led alliance Articulating a telos of social justice', in LEADERSHIP, ETHICS AND SCHOOLING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 105 - 125,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2016, 'Theoretical tools', in LEADERSHIP, ETHICS AND SCHOOLING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 51 - 68,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2016, 'tLeadership, ethics and schooling for social justice Conclusion', in LEADERSHIP, ETHICS AND SCHOOLING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 147 - 158,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R, 2016, 'Foucault and educational administration', in Peters M (ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Springer, Singapore, pp. 1 - 5,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R, 2016, 'Perpetuating Inequality in Education: Valuing Purpose over Process in Educational Leadership', in Normore A; Brooks J (ed.), The Dark Side of Leadership Identifying and Overcoming Unethical Practice in Organizations, Emerald, pp. 235 - 252,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Niesche R, 2016, 'Zombie leadership, the différend and deconstruction', in Lakomski G; Eacott S; Evers C (ed.), Questioning Leadership: New Directions for Educational Organisations, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxford, UK, pp. 73 - 85,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Eacott S; Niesche R, 2013, 'Empirical leadership research: letting the data speak for themselves', in Eacott S; Niesche R (ed.), Empirical leadership research: letting the data speak for themselves, Untested Ideas Center, Niagara Falls,, pp. 1 - 14
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Eacott S; Niesche R, 2013, 'Empirical leadership research: letting the data speak for themselves', in Eacott S (ed.), Empirical Leadership Research: Letting the Data Speak for Themselves, Untested Ideas Research Centre, New York, pp. 1 - 11
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Jorgensen R; Grootenboer P; Niesche R, 2013, 'Teachers' beliefs and practices in teaching mathematics in remote Aboriginal schools', in Pedagogies to Enhance Learning for Indigenous Students: Evidence-Based Practice, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 75 - 88
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Niesche R; Mills M, 2013, 'Creating 'temperamental artistes': A longitudinal study of leadership capacity building in disadvantaged schools', in Eacott S; Niesche R (ed.), Empirical Leadership Research: Letting the Data Speak for Themselves, Untested Ideas Research Centre, New York, pp. 143 - 164
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Niesche R, 2013, 'Combating role discontinuity for principals of remote Indigenous schools', in Jorgensen R; Sullivan P (ed.), Pedagogies to Enhance Learning for Indigenous Students: Evidence-Based Practice, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 61 - 74,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Niesche R, 2013, 'Combating role discontinuity for principals of remote indigenous schools', in Pedagogies to Enhance Learning for Indigenous Students: Evidence-based Practice, pp. 61 - 74,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Niesche R, 2011, ''Doing' leadership differently', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 136 - 139,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Niesche R, 2011, 'A Foucauldian toolbox for educational leadership', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 17 - +,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Niesche R, 2011, 'Disciplinary regimes under self-governance', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 64 - +,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Niesche R, 2011, 'Discourses of educational leadership', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 41 - +,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Niesche R, 2011, 'Foucault and Educational Leadership Disciplining the principal Introduction', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 1 - +,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Niesche R, 2011, 'Leading and managing as ethical work', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 104 - 135,
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Niesche R, 2005, 'Disengaging leadership: educational administration and management as a field of scientific knowledge', in Yamanashi J (ed.), Researching Identity, Diversity & Education: Surpassing the Norm, Post Pressed, Teneriffe, pp. 20 - 35
  • Edited Books | 2021
    Steven C; Gunter H; Niesche R; Trujillo T, (eds.), 2021, Understanding Educational Leadership: Critical Perspectives and Approaches, Bloomsbury,
    Edited Books | 2020
    Niesche R; Heffernan A, (ed.), 2020, Theorising subjectivity and identity in educational leadership research, Routledge,
    Edited Books | 2018
    Wilkinson J; Niesche R; Eacott S, (eds.), 2018, Challenges for public education: Reconceptualising educational leadership. policy and social justice as resources for hope, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon,
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Gobby B; Blackmore J; Eacott S; Keddie A; MacDonald K; Niesche R; Wilkinson J, 2024, 'Principals and the careless erosion of employment standards in the context of school autonomy and marketisation: a case study of school support staff', Journal of Industrial Relations,
    Journal articles | 2024
    MacDonald K; Keddie A; Eacott S; Wilkinson J; Blackmore J; Niesche R; Gobby B, 2024, 'The spatiality of economic maldistribution in public-school funding in Australia: still a poisonous debate', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 56, pp. 180 - 201,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Wilkinson J; MacDonald K; Keddie A; Gobby B; Eacott S; Niesche R; Blackmore J, 2024, 'School transformation in minoritized settings: a practice architectures lens', International Journal of Leadership in Education,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Blackmore J; MacDonald K; Keddie A; Gobby B; Wilkinson J; Eacott S; Niesche R, 2023, 'Election or selection? School autonomy reform, governance and the politics of school councils', Journal of Education Policy, 38, pp. 547 - 566,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Eacott S; Niesche R; Keddie A; Blackmore J; Wilkinson J; Gobby B; MacDonald K, 2023, 'Autonomy, Instructional Leadership and Improving Outcomes–The LSLD Reforms in NSW, Australia', Leadership and Policy in Schools, 22, pp. 811 - 824,
    Journal articles | 2023
    MacDonald K; Keddie A; Blackmore J; Mahoney C; Wilkinson J; Gobby B; Niesche R; Eacott S, 2023, 'School autonomy reform and social justice: a policy overview of Australian public education (1970s to present)', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 307 - 327,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Niesche R; Eacott S; Keddie A; Gobby B; MacDonald K; Wilkinson J; Blackmore J, 2023, 'Principals’ perceptions of school autonomy and educational leadership', Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 51, pp. 1260 - 1277,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Torrance D; Mifsud D; Niesche R; Fertig M, 2023, 'Headteachers and the pandemic: Themes from a review of literature on leadership for professional learning in complex times', Professional Development in Education, 49, pp. 1103 - 1116,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Gobby B; Wilkinson J; Keddie A; Blackmore J; Eacott S; MacDonald K; Niesche R, 2022, 'Managerial, professional and collective school autonomies: using material semiotics to examine the multiple realities of school autonomy', International Journal of Leadership in Education,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Eacott S; Macdonald K; Keddie A; Blackmore J; Wilkinson J; Niesche R; Gobby B; Fernandez I, 2020, 'COVID-19 and inequities in Australian education - insights on federalism, autonomy, and access', International Studies in Educational Administration, 48, pp. 6 - 14
    Journal articles | 2020
    Keddie A; Claire MacDonald K; Blackmore J; Eacott S; Gobby B; Mahoney C; Niesche R; Wilkinson J, 2020, 'School autonomy, marketisation and social justice: the plight of principals and schools', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 52, pp. 432 - 447,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Keddie A; MacDonald K; Blackmore J; Wilkinson J; Gobby B; Niesche R; Eacott S; Mahoney C, 2020, 'The constitution of school autonomy in Australian public education: areas of paradox for social justice', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 25, pp. 1 - 18,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Niesche R, 2020, 'Critical perspectives in educational leadership', Leading and Managing, 26, pp. 40 - 45,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Gobby B; Niesche R, 2019, 'Community empowerment? School autonomy, school boards and depoliticising governance', Australian Educational Researcher, 46, pp. 565 - 582,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Niesche R, 2018, 'Foucault and School Leadership Research: Bridging Theory and Method', BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, 66, pp. 418 - 420,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Kabgani S; Niesche R; Gulson K, 2017, 'Psycho-politicising educational subjectivity: A post humanist consideration of Ranciere and Lacan', Educational Philosophy and Theory,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Niesche R, 2017, 'Critical perspectives in educational leadership: A new 'theory turn'?', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Niesche R; Gowlett C, 2015, 'Advocating a Post-structuralist Politics for Educational Leadership', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 372 - 386,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Niesche R, 2015, 'Governmentality and My School: School Principals in Societies of Control', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 133 - 145,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Niesche R, 2015, 'Guest Editorial', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 113 - 117,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Niesche R, 2015, 'Guest Editorial', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 113 - 117,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Niesche R, 2015, 'What use is Foucault in education today?', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Mills M; Niesche R, 2014, 'School reform and the emotional demands of principals: Lorna's story', School Leadership and Management, 34, pp. 120 - 135,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2014, 'Issues of Indigenous representation: White advocacy and the complexities of ethical leadership', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27, pp. 509 - 526,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Niesche R; Mills M, 2013, 'Creating ‘temperamental artistes’: A longitudinal study of leadership capacity building in disadvantaged schools', Leadership and Policy Quarterly, 2, pp. 181 - 197,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Niesche R, 2013, 'Deploying educational leadership as a form of governmentality', Discourse,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Niesche R, 2013, 'Foucault, counter-conduct and school leadership as a form of political subjectivity', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 45, pp. 144 - 158,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Niesche R, 2013, 'Guest Editorial', Educational Philosophy and Theory,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Niesche R, 2013, 'Politicizing articulation: Applying Lyotard's work to the use of standards in educational leadership', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 16, pp. 220 - 233,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Keddie A; Niesche R, 2012, ''It's almost like a White school now': Racialised complexities, Indigenous representation and school leadership', Critical Studies in Education, 53, pp. 169 - 182,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Keddie A; Niesche R, 2012, 'Productive engagements with student difference: Supporting equity through cultural recognition', British Educational Research Journal, 38, pp. 333 - 348,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Niesche R; Haase M, 2012, 'Emotions and Ethics: A Foucauldian framework for becoming an ethical educator', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44, pp. 276 - 288,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Niesche R, 2012, 'Heads on the block', DISCOURSE-STUDIES IN THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EDUCATION, 33, pp. 457 - 464,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Jorgensen R; Niesche R, 2011, 'Curriculum leadership in remote Indigenous communities', Leading and Managing, 17, pp. 45 - 58
    Journal articles | 2011
    Niesche R; Keddie A, 2011, 'Foregrounding issues of equity and diversity in educational leadership', School Leadership and Management, 31, pp. 65 - 77,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Jorgensen Zevenbergen R; Grootenboer P; Niesche R; Lerman S, 2010, 'Challenges for teacher education: The mismatch between beliefs and practice in remote Indigenous contexts', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 38, pp. 161 - 175,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Niesche R; Jorgensen R, 2010, 'Curriculum reform in remote areas: The need for productive leadership', Journal of Educational Administration, 48, pp. 102 - 117,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Niesche R, 2010, 'Discipline through documentation: A form of governmentality for school principals', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 13, pp. 249 - 263,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Jorgensen R; Walsh L; Niesche R, 2009, 'Reforming schools: A case study of New Basics in a primary school', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 12, pp. 115 - 133,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Jorgensen R; Niesche R, 2008, 'Equity, mathematics and classroom practice: developing rich mathematical experiences for disadvantaged students', Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 13, pp. 21 - 27
    Journal articles | 2008
    Niesche R, 2008, 'Leadership gender & culture in education. Male and female perspectives', AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER, 35, pp. 147 - 148,
  • Reports | 2021
    Eacott S; Loughland T; Niesche R; Durksen T; Heffernan A; Gobby B, 2021, High-impact school leadership: case study 3,
    Reports | 2021
    Eacott S; Loughland T; Niesche R; Durksen T; Heffernan A; Gobby B, 2021, High-impact school leadership: case study 4,
    Reports | 2021
    Eacott S; Niesche R; Heffernan A; Loughland T; Gobby B; Durksen T, 2021, High-impact school leadership in regional, rural and remote schools, ,
    Reports | 2021
    Eacott S; Niesche R; Loughland T; Durksen T; Heffernan A; Gobby B, 2021, High-impact school leadership: case study 1,
    Reports | 2021
    Eacott S; Niesche R; Loughland T; Durksen T; Heffernan A; Gobby B, 2021, High-impact school leadership: case study 2,
    Reports | 2020
    Eacott S; Raffe C; Niesche R; Loughland T; Durksen T; Heffernan A; Gobby B, 2020, Attracting and retaining high impact school leaders and educators in regional, rural and remote schools. Report 1: Barriers and Challenges, 1,
    Reports | 2020
    Eacott S; Raffe C; Niesche R; Loughland T; Durksen T; Heffernan A; Gobby B, 2020, Attracting and retaining high impact school leaders and educators in regional, rural and remote schools. Report 3: Non-monetary Incentives, 3,
    Reports | 2020
    Eacott S; Raffe C; Niesche R; Loughland T; Durksen T; Heffernan A; Gobby B, 2020, Attracting and retaining high-impact school leaders and educators in regional, rural and remote schools. Report 2: High-Impact Leadership, 2,

Keddie, A., Blackmore, J., Wilkinson, J., Gobby, B., Niesche, R. & Eacott, S. (2019-2023) School autonomy reform and social justice in Australian public education. ARC DP190100190 ($350,000)

Vass, G. & Niesche, R. 2015-2018 Culture, Curriculum, and Community Project funded by the Ian Potter Foundation ($120,000)

Niesche, R. (2018). Equity Review. Gonski Institute for Education Â鶹Éçmadou Sydney ($10,000)

Niesche, R. (2014). FASS Research Grant ($5,000)

Niesche, R. (2014). Â鶹Éçmadou Goldstar Award ($10,000)

Niesche, R. (2011-2013). University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellow ($241,000)

2011 - 2013     University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

2009                Nominated for AARE Doctoral Thesis Award

2005 – 2007    University of Queensland Joint Research Scholarship (PhD)

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Educational Leadership SIG Co-Convenor 2013-2017 (AARE)

Editorial Boards: Leadership and Policy Quarterly, Journal of Educational Administration and History

Co-Editor: Educational Leadership Theory book series (Springer)

Vice-President NSW Institute for Educational Research 2016-2017

Member of Critical Educational Policy and Leadership Studies (CEPALS) Research Interest Group (BELMAS)

My Teaching

EDST5143 Critical Perspectives in Educational Leadership

EDST5438 Leadership Theory: Research and Practice

EDST5457 Literature Review (Educational Leadership)

EDST5035 Current Issues in Education 2