Leading with integrity: How principals influence teacher effectiveness without derailing morale

Professor Grant reimagines instructional leadership by integrating leadership styles to predict and improve teacher effectiveness and teacher morale.

It was JF Kennedy who said that leadership and learning are indispensable to one another, but what makes for good leadership in educational settings? In a new study, David Grant of the University of Redlands in the United States integrates practices from diverse leadership models which have been debated for many years. His research determined which practices have the greatest […]

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When less is more: Downscaling climate data for improved modelling

Fullhart’s primary research interests are in hydrological modelling and hydroclimatology.

Accurate climate modelling requires long-term, high-resolution, and high-quality time series data. However, such datasets are often not available, especially in the Global South. Dr Andrew Fullhart (US Department of Agriculture) is utilising global climate datasets and machine learning to improve global coverage of gridded data. The results provide accurate monthly and daily time series for precipitation across Africa and South […]

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Can deeply religious people be intellectually humble?

Dr Peter Hill studies intellectual humility amongst deeply religious people

Intellectual humility – the conscious awareness of the limits and fallibility of one’s intelligence – is a virtue in the search for wisdom. But is what’s true for philosophers also true for deeply religious people whose humility is tied to unquestioning deference to the divine? It is a question that both baffles and inspires those studying the psychology of religion. […]

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