Rate My Professor Christopher Day

Christopher Day is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Sydney. He holds the position of Professor of Education in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham, where he is a member of the UNESCO Centre and the Centre for Research on Educational Leadership and Management. He also serves as Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University and Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, North East Normal University, and East China Normal University. His research specializations include teacher professionalism, school leadership, teachers' work and lives, teacher identities, commitment and resilience, school-university partnerships, leadership of school clusters, policy enactment at system and school levels, teacher retention, successful principals, and governance and leadership of school trusts. Over the last twenty years, Day has led national, European, and international research and development projects on teachers' work and lives, school and system leadership, change, and teacher resilience and retention, collaborating with partners in Europe, North and South America, China, and Australasia. He founded the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP), an international research network now spanning 27 countries. Current projects focus on teacher retention, successful principals, teacher professionalism during Covid-19, leadership in multi-academy trusts in England, university-school partnerships for change in China, leadership of system change in Australia, and teacher retention. He has delivered invited keynote addresses at national and international conferences and supervises research students in school leadership, teachers' work and lives, resilience, continuing professional development, and qualitative research.