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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
86
Citations
38314
World Ranking
253
National Ranking
46

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Alma Harris is affiliated with Cardiff Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the field of social sciences with a focus on education, including developmental and educational psychology, information systems and management, general health professions, and social psychology. The main topics in their work cover teacher education and leadership studies, collaborative teaching and inclusion, educational and psychological assessments, educational assessment and improvement, education systems and policy, educational practices and policies, and early childhood education and development.

The research output includes a number of recent papers published primarily in the journal School Leadership and Management. Notable works include:

  • COVID 19 - school leadership in disruptive times, 2020, School Leadership and Management
  • COVID-19 - school leadership in crisis?, 2020, Journal of Professional Capital and Community
  • Distributed leadership: taking a retrospective and contemporary view of the evidence base, 2022, School Leadership and Management
  • Leading during a pandemic - what the evidence tells us, 2022, School Leadership and Management

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Michelle Jones, Cecilia María Azorín Abellán, Nashwa Ismail, Angella Cooze, and Jeremy Griffiths.

Alma Harris has contributed extensively to the journal School Leadership and Management with 21 publications. Other venues featuring their work are Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, Journal of Professional Capital and Community, International Journal of Leadership in Education, and Oxford Review of Education.

The scholar has published books with different publishers, including:

  • System Recall: Leading for Equity and Excellence in Education, Corwin eBooks, 2020
  • Leading and Transforming Education Systems, Springer Nature, 2020

Awards received by Alma Harris include election as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Seven strong claims about successful school leadership

    Kenneth Leithwood;Alma Harris;David Hopkins

  • Seven strong claims about successful school leadership revisited

    Kenneth Leithwood;Alma Harris;David Hopkins

  • Distributed Leadership and School Improvement: Leading or Misleading?.

    Alma Harris

  • Teacher leadership as distributed leadership: heresy, fantasy or possibility?

    Alma Harris

  • Successful School Leadership: What It Is and How It Influences Pupil Learning

    Kenneth Leithwood;Christopher Day;Pamela Sammons;Alma Harris

  • Improving Schools Through Teacher Leadership

    Alma Harris;Daniel Muijs

  • Distributed leadership through the looking glass

    Alma Harris;James Spillane

  • Do parents know they matter? Engaging all parents in learning

    Alma Harris;Janet Goodall

  • Distributed Leadership According to the Evidence

    Alma Harris

  • Improving Schools in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Areas ? A Review of Research Evidence

    Daniel Muijs;Alma Harris;Christopher Chapman;Louise Stoll

  • Building leadership capacity for school improvement

    Alma Harris;Linda Lambert

  • Teacher Leadership: improvement through empowerment? An overview of research.

    Daniel Muijs;Alma Harris

  • School Improvement: What's In It For Schools?

    Alma Harris

  • COVID 19 – school leadership in disruptive times

    Alma Harris;Michelle Jones

  • Effective Leadership in Schools Facing Challenging Contexts.

    Alma Harris

  • Distributed Leadership: What We Know

    Alma Harris

  • Teacher led school improvement: Teacher leadership in the UK

    Daniel Muijs;Alma Harris

  • Distributed School Leadership: Developing Tomorrow's Leaders

    Alma Harris

  • Professional learning communities and system improvement

    Alma Harris;Michelle Jones

  • Distributed leadership and organizational change: Reviewing the evidence

    Alma Harris;Kenneth Leithwood;Christopher Day;Pam Sammons

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Muijs
Daniel Muijs University of Southampton
Louise Stoll
Louise Stoll University College London
Pam Sammons
Pam Sammons University of Oxford
Andy Hargreaves
Andy Hargreaves Boston College
Kenneth Leithwood
Kenneth Leithwood University of Toronto
Geoff Lindsay
Geoff Lindsay University of Warwick
Mel Ainscow
Mel Ainscow University of Manchester
Philip Hallinger
Philip Hallinger Mahidol University
Sam Stringfield
Sam Stringfield University of Cincinnati
James P. Spillane
James P. Spillane Northwestern University

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