Paul Kidson

Biographic Data

ID6457655
NAMEPaul Kidson
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEKidson
SIGNATUREKIDSON P
AFFILIATIONSAustralian Catholic University
ORCID0000-0001-8259-2924
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The nature of connection

    Open AccessTiffani Apps, Karley Beckman et al.ARTICLELearning Media and Technology2025

    Contemporary schools have embraced the use of social media platforms, such as Facebook, to connect with parents, students, and the broader community. Despite an established body of critical research that highlights the power of platforms to shape social practice, there is a paucity of research that considers the impacts of school social media practice. This study employs a practice theory lens to examine school social media as practice with a foc…

  • School leader well-being under pressure

    Open AccessAlison Jardine, Theresa Dicke et al.ARTICLEEducational Management…2025

    School leaders are experiencing increasing job demands, high turnover, burnout, and declining well-being. Given the critical role school leaders play in our community, it is crucial to explore the factors contributing to and protecting from these issues. Guided by the Job Demands-Resources Model, this study examines the complex interplay between emotional demands, quantitative demands, resilience, burnout, and job satisfaction among school leader…

  • Responding to the Current Capricious State of Australian Educational Leadership

    Open AccessChristopher M Branson, Maureen Marra et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2024

    The capricious state of Australian educational leadership is evidenced in the publication, “The Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Survey 2022 Data”, which highlights unsustainable adverse health outcomes for an increasing number of school leaders. According to this report, the accumulation of stress caused by the sheer quantity of work, the lack of time to focus on teaching and learning, a lack of sufficient teachers…

  • ‘We Were an Afterthought’

    Open AccessRugare Mugumbate, Vinod Gopaldasani et al.ARTICLESocial Work in Public Health2024

    This paper investigates the impact on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities in Australia of government and community responses to the coronavirus pandemic of 2019 in the domains of education, employment, housing, social connectedness, and public health communication. Most of the examples are drawn from the state of New South Wales. In Australia, CALD refers to people from countries not classified as main English speaking. Most …

  • The International Baccalaureate in Australia

    Paul Kidson, George Odhiambo et al.ARTICLECompare A Journal of Comparative…2018Cited by: 6

    The presence of International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes in Australia has grown significantly over the past decade. Despite this, little critical research exists on the IB in Australia. This article provides an analysis of the IB currently in Australia, outlining the trends in growth across the various IB programmes over the last decade and compares this to international trends, including those of the Asia-Pacific region in which Australia is …