About RGELP

Mission

The Research Group for Educational Leadership and Policy (RGELP) aims to form a critical mass of scholars to conduct research on how educational leadership and policy impact and influence all stakeholders within the diverse education communities that encompass schools and school systems in the Asia Pacific region.

Vision

To become a research hub creating and disseminating knowledge for educational leadership and policy.

Research focus

• Developing an evidence base for sustainable improvement drawn from school communities, systemic policy, and program performance
• Enhancing alignment in perspectives and practices of stakeholders at each level of the system (classroom, school, education central office, government department) about the nature and factors that influence student learning
• Building and analysing solid empirical databases that chart multi-level contexts of student learning (classroom, school, system) to identify organisational design, management, and policy elements conducive to effective teaching and learning
• Designing high quality and high equity schooling systems that incorporate the findings from empirical research

Objectives

• Drawing from its research activity the group will produce and disseminate a variety of research-based outcomes, including peer-reviewed journal articles, policy reports, program evaluation reports, research tools, publicly available databases, research graduates, and research training courses.
• The group will focus on building international research collaborations with key research institutes in the region (China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea) and internationally.
• To achieve status as a regional Area of Excellence. The group's solid research capacity will play a critical role in supporting evidence-based practices of educational leadership and policy making, which are a core part of education reforms in the region.