Higher Education, Leadership and Women Vice Chancellors

Paula Burkinshaw is a Senior Research Fellow at Leeds University Centre for Interdisciplinary Leadership, UK who is fascinated by 'the missing women' in leadership and gendered leadership cultures.

• 1. Introduction 2. Higher Education: The Gender Neutral Myth 3. Research Metholodogy and Research Participants 4. Negotiating and Navigating Higher Education Gendered Leadership Cultures 5. Higher Education Leadership Communities of Practice of Masculinities 6. Achieving a Critical Mass of Women at the Top 7. The Way Forward

"Yes, we should make public the evidence that Burkinshaw cites (including excellent research by Louise Morley) that points to various powerful forms of discrimination against women." - Times Higher Education