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About this hub
The current research in education leadership and social justice engages in co-creation and ensuring voices and lived experiences are central to the critical debates. These debates are in education, leadership and change.
CREST’s work in this area seeks to engage with and benefit local communities and society in order to tackle disadvantage and bring about lasting change.
Our research addresses key questions surrounding inequality and we are particularly passionate about illuminating experiences of under represented groups in society.
We welcome opportunities for collaboration.
Annual Leadership Conference
Our Annual Leadership Conference is an opportunity to learn more about how leaders can be developed, as well as how leadership research can be used to support leaders within the sector to ensure that they work and practice are evidence informed.
We have held this conference since 2023. You can find recordings from previous years below.
Our 2025 conference is taking place in May, watch this space for further details.
You can view the video recordings from the conferences below and also at the CREST YouTube channel.
2024 Leadership Conference: Leading across phases and disciplines in education
This event took place on 21-23 May 2024. This year’s conference focused on leadership across different phases and disciplines, by including speakers
focusing on topics such as: making the leap into headteacher roles, SEND Leadership, Mental Health and Wellbeing leadership and neurodiverse leaders.
2023 Leadership Conference: Leading Change in Challenging Times
This event took place on 23 May 2023. Our theme this year reflected the challenges all leaders in education faced post-lockdown. We aimed to explore how these challenges led to greater opportunities to promote learning and provide others with life-chances. Great challenges often present us with great opportunities to do things differently, and to lead change during challenging times. It can be a very creative process.
