Nafsika Alexiadouless excellent leaders <strong>and</strong> their schools will fall beh<strong>in</strong>d. In the policies <strong>of</strong> both theLabour governments <strong>of</strong> the 1997–2010 period <strong>and</strong> the current coalition government,this is an acceptable outcome that will lead to social <strong><strong>in</strong>clusion</strong> as def<strong>in</strong>ed from with<strong>in</strong>Silver’s specialisation model.Nafsika Alexiadou is currently an Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>in</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Applied EducationalSciences <strong>of</strong> Umeå University <strong>in</strong> Sweden, <strong>and</strong> a senior lecturer <strong>in</strong> the School <strong>of</strong> Public Policy <strong>and</strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Practice at the University <strong>of</strong> Keele (UK). Her research encompasses the areas <strong>of</strong> <strong>education</strong>policy <strong>and</strong> governance, European <strong>education</strong> policy <strong>and</strong> comparative studies. She is currentlywork<strong>in</strong>g on the area <strong>of</strong> chang<strong>in</strong>g <strong>education</strong> governance <strong>in</strong> Europe <strong>and</strong> the United K<strong>in</strong>gdom.Nafsika has published <strong>in</strong> <strong>education</strong> <strong>and</strong> social science journals <strong>and</strong> teaches <strong>education</strong> policy <strong>and</strong>research methods <strong>in</strong> undergraduate <strong>and</strong> postgraduate courses.596
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