Supporting Course and Programme Leaders in Higher Education

Jenny Lawrence is a Reader in Higher Education and the Head of the Teaching Excellence Academy at the University of Hull, UK. Sue Morón-García is a writer, researcher and educational developer with over 35 years of combined experience in higher, adult and secondary education where she has designed, led and advised on a variety of programmes. Rowena Senior is a Reader in Higher Education within the School of Education, University of Hertfordshire, UK.

• Part 1: Institutional development of programme leadership and programme leaders: Understanding and developing the role, 1. Out of the shadows: Foregrounding programme leadership in Scotland, 2. Nailing jelly to the wall: Understanding and defining programme leadership in a large institution, 3. Developing program leadership in an Australian university: An institutional approach to professional learning and development, 4. It takes a village: A collaborative and comprehensive approach to designing a cross-institutional development programme for programme leaders, 5. Harnessing the potential of formal networks and informal communities to support the holistic development of programme leaders, Part 2: Individual programme leaders: the development of leadership through experience and collaboration, 6. Programme leaders as educational and academic leaders: A question of influence - relationships, behaviour and commitment, 7. "It can be a lonely job sometimes": The use of collaborative space and social network theory in support of programme leaders, 8. Empowering programme leaders: Developing relational academic leadership, Part 3: The practice of programme leadership: Leading programme teams, 9. The collaborative programme leader: embedding meaningful collaboration into a programme culture, 10. In pursuit of excellence: A collaborative and interdisciplinary framework for reconceptualizing programme leaders