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Social Sciences and Humanities
Australia
2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
77
Citations
26170
World Ranking
456
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia 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

Bob Lingard is affiliated with the Australian Catholic University in Australia and works primarily within the social sciences. Their research spans multiple fields, including education, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, literature and literary theory, and information systems and management.

Their scholarly output encompasses various subfields and topics, highlighting a broad interdisciplinary engagement. Key subfields include:

  • Education
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Information Systems and Management

Main research topics addressed by Lingard involve:

  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • Educational Assessment and Improvement

Lingard has contributed to various academic journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
  • Globalisation Societies and Education
  • Journal of Education Policy
  • Critical Studies in Education
  • Journal of Educational Administration & History

Recent papers authored by or involving Lingard include:

  • Multiple temporalities in critical policy sociology in education, 2021, Critical Studies in Education
  • The 'everywhere and nowhere' English language policy in Queensland government schools: a license for commercialisation, 2022, Journal of Education Policy

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Sue Creagh
  • Tae-Hee Choi
  • Ian Hardy
  • Steven Lewis
  • Anna Hogan

Bob Lingard has also authored a book published by Bloomsbury Publishing plc entitled Global-National Networks in Education Policy, released in 2021.

Among their professional recognitions, Lingard is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Globalizing Education Policy

    Fazal Rizvi;Bob Lingard

  • Educational Policy and the Politics of Change

    Sandra Taylor;Fazal A Rizvi;Bob Lingard;Miriam Henry

  • Policy borrowing, policy learning: testing times in Australian schooling

    Bob Lingard

  • Teachers and Schooling Making A Difference: Productive pedagogies, assessment and performance

    Debra Nola Anne Hayes;Martin Mills;Pam Christie;Bob Lingard

  • The OECD and the expansion of PISA: new global modes of governance in education

    Sam Sellar;Bob Lingard

  • Testing regimes, accountabilities and education policy: commensurate global and national developments

    Bob Lingard;Wayne Martino;Goli Rezai-Rashti

  • Policy as numbers: ac/counting for educational research

    Bob Lingard

  • Looking East: Shanghai, PISA 2009 and the reconstitution of reference societies in the global education policy field

    Sam Sellar;Bob Lingard

  • Men Engaging Feminisms: Pro-Feminism, Backlashes and Schooling

    Bob Lingard;Peter Douglas

  • The OECD and Global Governance in Education.

    Sam Sellar;Bob Lingard

  • Globalizing policy sociology in education: working with Bourdieu

    Bob Lingard;Shaun Rawolle;Sandra Taylor

  • Constructing a European Policy Space in Educational Governance: The Role of Transnational Policy Actors:

    Martin Lawn;Bob Lingard

  • GLOBALISATION, EDUCATION POLICY AND POLITICS

    Jenny Ozga;Bob Lingard

  • IT IS AND IT ISN’T : Vernacular globalization, educational policy, and restructuring

    Bob Lingard

  • Attracting, recruiting and retaining male teachers: Policy issues in the male teacher debate

    Martin Mills;Wayne Martino;Bob Lingard

  • Postcolonialism and education: negotiating a contested terrain

    Fazal Rizvi;Bob Lingard;Jennifer Lavia

  • Mediatizing Educational Policy: The Journalistic Field, Science Policy, and Cross-Field Effects.

    Bob Lingard;Shaun Rawolle

  • Education policy as numbers: data categories and two Australian cases of misrecognition

    Bob Lingard;Sue Creagh;Greg Vass

  • New Scalar Politics: Implications for Education Policy.

    Bob Lingard;Shaun Rawolle

  • Teachers and productive pedagogies: contextualising, conceptualising, utilising

    Bob Lingard;Debra Hayes;Martin Mills

  • National Policy Brokering and the Construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland.

    Sotiria Grek;Martin Lawn;Bob Lingard;Jenny Ozga

  • The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Education Policy and Politics

    Bob Lingard;Jennifer Ozga

Frequent Co-Authors

Fazal Rizvi
Fazal Rizvi University of Melbourne
Martin Mills
Martin Mills University College London
Wayne Martino
Wayne Martino University of Western Ontario
Trevor Gale
Trevor Gale University of Glasgow
Pat Thomson
Pat Thomson University of Nottingham
John Hattie
John Hattie University of Melbourne
Christopher Lubienski
Christopher Lubienski Indiana University
Peter Renshaw
Peter Renshaw University of Queensland
Andy Green
Andy Green University College London
Allan Luke
Allan Luke Queensland University of Technology

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