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Social Sciences and Humanities
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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
84
Citations
38744
World Ranking
282
National Ranking
51

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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Christopher Day is a researcher primarily affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their academic work is situated within the broad field of Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Education, having contributed to 28 publications in this subfield. Other notable subfields where they have published include Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Social Psychology.

Their research addresses topics such as Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion, Education and Technology Integration, Political Conflict and Governance, Peacebuilding and International Security, Global Peace and Security Dynamics, and Parental Involvement in Education.

Christopher Day has authored several papers, including:

  • Teacher professionalism: Chinese teachers' perspectives, 2023, Journal of Professional Capital and Community
  • Revisiting the Civil-Military Conundrum in Africa, 2020, Civil Wars

Frequent co-authors include Qing Gu (3 collaborations), Alyson Simpson (2), Moses Khisa (2), Monica Mincu (2), and Jingping Sun (2).

Christopher Day has published in multiple academic venues, with the most frequent being Civil Wars (3 publications), Leadership and Policy in Schools (2), The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2), Journal of Professional Capital and Community (1), and Teaching and Teacher Education (1).

Their book publications feature "School-University Partnerships in Action: The Promise of Change," published by the University of Nottingham in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Contexts which shape and reshape new teachers’ identities: A multi-perspective study

    Maria Assunção Flores;Christopher Day

  • The personal and professional selves of teachers: stable and unstable identities

    Christopher Day;Alison Kington;Gordon Stobart;Pam Sammons

  • Developing Teachers : The Challenges of Lifelong Learning

    Christopher Day

  • Teachers Resilience: A Necessary Condition for Effectiveness.

    Qing Gu;Christopher Day

  • The Impact of Leadership on Student Outcomes: How Successful School Leaders Use Transformational and Instructional Strategies to Make a Difference

    Christopher Day;Qing Gu;Pam Sammons

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

    Kenneth Leithwood;Christopher Day;Pamela Sammons;Alma Harris

  • Teachers Matter: Connecting Work, Lives And Effectiveness

    C. Day;P. Sammons;G. Stobart;Alison Kington

  • A Passion for Teaching

    Christopher Day

  • Leading Schools in Times of Change

    Christopher Day

  • School reform and transitions in teacher professionalism and identity

    Christopher Day

  • Reform, standards and teacher identity: Challenges of sustaining commitment

    Christopher Day;Bob Elliot;Alison Kington

  • The New Lives of Teachers

    Christopher Day

  • Pasión por enseñar: La identidad personal y profesional del docente y sus valores

    Pablo Manzano Bernárdez;Christopher Day

  • Variations in the Conditions for Teachers' Professional Learning and Development: Sustaining Commitment and Effectiveness over a Career.

    Christopher Day;Qing Gu

  • Challenges to teacher resilience: conditions count

    Qing Gu;Christopher Day

  • Reflection: a necessary but not sufficient condition for professional development

    Christopher Day

  • Professionalism, performativity and empowerment : discourses in the politics, policies and purposes of continuing professional development

    Christopher Day;Judyth Sachs

  • Action research and reflective practice: towards a holistic view

    Ruth Leitch;Christopher Day

  • Learning and growing in a ‘foreign’ context: intercultural experiences of international students

    Qing Gu;Michele Schweisfurth;Christopher Day

  • Distributed leadership and organizational change: Reviewing the evidence

    Alma Harris;Kenneth Leithwood;Christopher Day;Pam Sammons

Frequent Co-Authors

Pam Sammons
Pam Sammons University of Oxford
Alma Harris
Alma Harris Cardiff Metropolitan University
Kenneth Leithwood
Kenneth Leithwood University of Toronto
David W. Hopkins
David W. Hopkins Scotland's Rural College
Geoff Lindsay
Geoff Lindsay University of Warwick
Andy Hargreaves
Andy Hargreaves Boston College
Allan David Walker
Allan David Walker Education University of Hong Kong
Daniel Muijs
Daniel Muijs University of Southampton
Yufeng Shen
Yufeng Shen Columbia University
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital

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