Roxana Bolden
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 108748 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roxana Bolden |
| PRENOMES | Roxana |
| SOBRENOME | Bolden |
| ASSINATURA | BOLDEN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7158-6465 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Intersectional Discrimination Index – Revised
The Intersectional Discrimination Index (InDI) includes three measures of anticipated, day-to-day, and major discrimination for intercategorical intersectionality research. Previous studies found that the measures are unidimensional with high loadings, good test-retest reliability, predictive validity, and measurement invariance between Canadian and United States (US) samples. Gaps included the need for cognitive interviewing, reassessing stabili…
From Pipelines to Ecosystems
Whilst universities have long needed to balance competing demands, the situation seems to have been exacerbated in recent years, particularly in relation to funding, digital disruption and political interference. This article explores implications for the recruitment and development of higher-education leaders. Building on the concept of the ‘leadership pipeline’ we consider the passages that must be navigated on the way to becoming an effective …
Beyond the Unethical Leader
The downfall of the once heralded Theranos has captured the attention of the media, producing a plethora of reports presenting the case from a range of perspectives and sparking debate over the culpability of various parties and their contributions. This paper considers the case of Theranos through a dispositional analysis, bringing together 47 reports on the company to highlight an array of contextual factors that collectively contributed toward…
Academic anomie
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has ignited a near universal rethink of what is tolerable or desirable in work settings. In higher education—where discontent has been exacerbated by the pandemic—the potential for a ‘great resignation’ is a very real threat. The long-term impact of a crisis management approach in universities has led to a state of ‘pandemia’, according to Watermeyer et al., (British Journal of Sociology of Education 42:651…
Antecedents and consequences of distributed leadership in Indian higher education
Purpose The concept of distributed leadership (DL) has been widely advocated within higher education (HE). Yet, there have been few empirical investigations and little theory development outside Western contexts to date. This study presents a unique conceptualisation of DL and tests it empirically in India. Design/methodology/approach This study tests a moderated-mediation model by exploring the antecedents and consequences of DL in HE. Standardi…
Over worked and undervalued? Knotted tensions of identity, purpose, and change in contemporary higher education
Whilst concerns about rising managerialism have reverberated around the higher education sector for decades, there is evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated such trends and deepened cracks within the system. Whilst it is relatively easy for such discussions to become polarised – where ‘managers’ are pitched against ‘staff’ – the reality is far more complex. In this paper we analyse and interpret findings from a survey of 780 academic an…
Testing for Measurement Invariance (MI)
Assessing measurement invariance and the interplay of discrimination, microaggressions, and resilience among Black women living with HIV (BWLWH) across time utilizing latent class and repeated measure analysis may provide novel insights. A total of 151 BWLWH in a southeastern U.S. city completed surveys focused on multiple forms of microaggressions and discrimination (race, gender, sexual orientation, or HIV-related) and resilience factors (socia…
What makes a good article for leadership? Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 2
Last year we published an editorial that included thoughts and views about what makes a good article for Leadership from three of our associate editors (see Edwards et al., 2024 - https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/9083/). As this editorial was so well received, we wanted to do the same this year and publish a part 2. This time we hear from three more associate editors, Sarah Robinson, Richard Bolden and Suze Wilson, as they too respond to the fo…
Three perspectives on leadership in higher education
There is a fragmented and complex literature about higher education leadership representing a diversity of ideological perspectives about its nature and purposes. Internationally, the literature has been strongly shaped by the importation of concepts and theories from management studies and a tradition of scholarship led by university leader-researchers. Drawing on an extensive literature review—drawing on over 250 books, book chapters, reports a…
Five point initiative
The FPI bundled implementation strategy shows promise to deliver health prevention/intervention for HIV and other health conditions to communities facing health inequities and for whom the current system for delivering care is insufficient
Putting leadership in its place
This special issue emerges from a call for papers issued following the 18th International Studying Leadership Conference, hosted at the University of the West of England in December 2019, which addressed the theme of ‘Putting leadership in its place’. There was a certain playfulness to the topic, which invited contributors to not only look at the role of ‘place’ within Leadership Studies but also to actively challenge the reverence in which ‘lead…
Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development
Whilst Day's (2000) description of leadership development as an investment in social capital has been widely cited, there has been little subsequent empirical or theoretical work to explore and articulate the nature and purpose of this ‘social capital’ or how it changes over time. This paper revisits this issue by presenting findings from a qualitative in-depth longitudinal evaluation of a corporate leadership development programme. The study exp…
Why is collective leadership so elusive
This ‘Leading Questions’ thought piece explores the elusive nature of collective leadership. We use our previous experiences to explore issues that tend to go unnoticed and unreported within the academic analysis of collective forms of leadership, including (1) the motives of those commissioning and conducting applied research to ‘make a difference’ through collective forms of leadership; (2) the performative effects of how ‘collective leadership…
Learning from collective lived experience
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study tracking the development and engagement of a group of experts by experience (The Independent Futures (IF) Group) who provided a lived experience voice to the Bristol Golden Key (GK) partnership within the Fulfilling Lives programme. The case study reports the genesis and impact of the group, as well as the facilitators of impact and experiences of the group members and those they worked…
An emergent process for activating system change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present insights into the way in which system change can be activated around the provision of services and support for people experiencing multiple disadvantages in an urban setting. Design/methodology/approach This paper is informed by a thematic analysis of reflections, reports, learning logs, interviews and experiences of those “activating” system change in the Golden Key partnership in Bristol between 2…
Systems leadership in practice
This study has provided insight into the nature of systems leadership in public health settings in the UK. It has identified factors that contribute to effective public health systems leadership and offers a thematic model in terms of establishing a systems leadership approach, maintaining momentum and identifying key success indicators
Special issue of Leadership
Hybrid configurations of leadership in higher education employer engagement
Recent literature has emphasised the distributed nature of leadership in higher education (HE) and the multitude of actors and factors that contribute towards organisational outcomes. Gronn suggests, however, that rather than using such evidence to provide broad, normative accounts of leadership practice, greater attention should be directed to mapping the 'hybrid configurations' through which leadership practice emerges. This article responds to…
Citizens of the academic community? A societal perspective on leadership in UK higher education
This paper presents a societal perspective on academic leadership by exploring the preoccupations of academics as citizens rather than as employees, managers or individuals. It uses a listening post methodology to ask ‘what is it like to be a citizen of an academic institution in contemporary Britain?’ Three listening posts, comprising 26 participants from 15 higher education institutions, were conducted and analysed. A number of common themes we…
Distributed Leadership in Organizations
The aim of this paper is to review conceptual and empirical literature on the concept of distributed leadership (DL) in order to identify its origins, key arguments and areas for further work. Consideration is given to the similarities and differences between DL and related concepts, including ‘shared’, ‘collective’, ‘collaborative’, ‘emergent’, ‘co‐’ and ‘democratic’ leadership. Findings indicate that, while there are some common theoretical bas…
Distributed Leadership in Higher Education
In this article we present findings from research in 12 UK universities that sought to capture a range of perspectives on `distributed leadership' and reveal common and competing experiences within and between institutions. From analysis of findings we identified two principle approaches to the distribution of leadership: `devolved', associated with top-down influence, and `emergent', associated with bottom-up and horizontal influence. We argue t…
Distributed Leadership in Higher Education
The term `distributed leadership' has been prominent in research into educational management for some time. A number of articles have recently questioned the explanatory utility of the concept; in this article we examine its rhetorical function in higher education institutions. We suggest that it has served to contain, and to some extent ameliorate, two contradictions in the experience of academics who take on managerial roles or who exert leader…
Leadership in Higher Education
Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com
African Leadership
This article provides an account of meanings and connotations of `African leadership' emerging from research with a cohort of participants on a Pan-African leadership development programme. We begin by reviewing current approaches to leadership, and how they have been applied to the study of leadership and management across cultures, before introducing the notion of the `African renaissance', which calls for a re-engagement with indigenous knowle…
Leadership Competencies
This article indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalize and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders, yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two sets of data: a review of leadership competency frameworks and an analysis of participant reports from…
African Leadership
This article provides an account of meanings and connotations of `African leadership' emerging from research with a cohort of participants on a Pan-African leadership development programme. We begin by reviewing current approaches to leadership, and how they have been applied to the study of leadership and management across cultures, before introducing the notion of the `African renaissance', which calls for a re-engagement with indigenous knowle…
Distributed Leadership in Higher Education
The term `distributed leadership' has been prominent in research into educational management for some time. A number of articles have recently questioned the explanatory utility of the concept; in this article we examine its rhetorical function in higher education institutions. We suggest that it has served to contain, and to some extent ameliorate, two contradictions in the experience of academics who take on managerial roles or who exert leader…
Leadership Competencies
This article indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalize and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders, yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two sets of data: a review of leadership competency frameworks and an analysis of participant reports from…
Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide
Traditional qualitative data analysis software, while greatly facilitating text analysis, remains entrenched in a tradition of semantic coding. Such an approach, being both time-consuming and poor at incorporating quantitative variables, is seldom applied to large-scale survey and database research (especially within the commercial sector). Lexical analysis, on the other hand, with its origins in linguistics and information technology, offers a m…
Why is collective leadership so elusive
This ‘Leading Questions’ thought piece explores the elusive nature of collective leadership. We use our previous experiences to explore issues that tend to go unnoticed and unreported within the academic analysis of collective forms of leadership, including (1) the motives of those commissioning and conducting applied research to ‘make a difference’ through collective forms of leadership; (2) the performative effects of how ‘collective leadership…
Citizens of the academic community? A societal perspective on leadership in UK higher education
This paper presents a societal perspective on academic leadership by exploring the preoccupations of academics as citizens rather than as employees, managers or individuals. It uses a listening post methodology to ask ‘what is it like to be a citizen of an academic institution in contemporary Britain?’ Three listening posts, comprising 26 participants from 15 higher education institutions, were conducted and analysed. A number of common themes we…
Special issue of Leadership
Hybrid configurations of leadership in higher education employer engagement
Recent literature has emphasised the distributed nature of leadership in higher education (HE) and the multitude of actors and factors that contribute towards organisational outcomes. Gronn suggests, however, that rather than using such evidence to provide broad, normative accounts of leadership practice, greater attention should be directed to mapping the 'hybrid configurations' through which leadership practice emerges. This article responds to…
Leadership in Higher Education
Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com
Putting leadership in its place
This special issue emerges from a call for papers issued following the 18th International Studying Leadership Conference, hosted at the University of the West of England in December 2019, which addressed the theme of ‘Putting leadership in its place’. There was a certain playfulness to the topic, which invited contributors to not only look at the role of ‘place’ within Leadership Studies but also to actively challenge the reverence in which ‘lead…
Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide
Traditional qualitative data analysis software, while greatly facilitating text analysis, remains entrenched in a tradition of semantic coding. Such an approach, being both time-consuming and poor at incorporating quantitative variables, is seldom applied to large-scale survey and database research (especially within the commercial sector). Lexical analysis, on the other hand, with its origins in linguistics and information technology, offers a m…
Leadership Competencies
This article indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalize and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders, yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two sets of data: a review of leadership competency frameworks and an analysis of participant reports from…
Distributed Leadership in Higher Education
In this article we present findings from research in 12 UK universities that sought to capture a range of perspectives on `distributed leadership' and reveal common and competing experiences within and between institutions. From analysis of findings we identified two principle approaches to the distribution of leadership: `devolved', associated with top-down influence, and `emergent', associated with bottom-up and horizontal influence. We argue t…
Distributed Leadership in Higher Education
The term `distributed leadership' has been prominent in research into educational management for some time. A number of articles have recently questioned the explanatory utility of the concept; in this article we examine its rhetorical function in higher education institutions. We suggest that it has served to contain, and to some extent ameliorate, two contradictions in the experience of academics who take on managerial roles or who exert leader…
Leadership in Higher Education
Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com
African Leadership
This article provides an account of meanings and connotations of `African leadership' emerging from research with a cohort of participants on a Pan-African leadership development programme. We begin by reviewing current approaches to leadership, and how they have been applied to the study of leadership and management across cultures, before introducing the notion of the `African renaissance', which calls for a re-engagement with indigenous knowle…
Distributed Leadership in Organizations
The aim of this paper is to review conceptual and empirical literature on the concept of distributed leadership (DL) in order to identify its origins, key arguments and areas for further work. Consideration is given to the similarities and differences between DL and related concepts, including ‘shared’, ‘collective’, ‘collaborative’, ‘emergent’, ‘co‐’ and ‘democratic’ leadership. Findings indicate that, while there are some common theoretical bas…
Hybrid configurations of leadership in higher education employer engagement
Recent literature has emphasised the distributed nature of leadership in higher education (HE) and the multitude of actors and factors that contribute towards organisational outcomes. Gronn suggests, however, that rather than using such evidence to provide broad, normative accounts of leadership practice, greater attention should be directed to mapping the 'hybrid configurations' through which leadership practice emerges. This article responds to…
Citizens of the academic community? A societal perspective on leadership in UK higher education
This paper presents a societal perspective on academic leadership by exploring the preoccupations of academics as citizens rather than as employees, managers or individuals. It uses a listening post methodology to ask ‘what is it like to be a citizen of an academic institution in contemporary Britain?’ Three listening posts, comprising 26 participants from 15 higher education institutions, were conducted and analysed. A number of common themes we…
Systems leadership in practice
This study has provided insight into the nature of systems leadership in public health settings in the UK. It has identified factors that contribute to effective public health systems leadership and offers a thematic model in terms of establishing a systems leadership approach, maintaining momentum and identifying key success indicators
Special issue of Leadership
Putting leadership in its place
This special issue emerges from a call for papers issued following the 18th International Studying Leadership Conference, hosted at the University of the West of England in December 2019, which addressed the theme of ‘Putting leadership in its place’. There was a certain playfulness to the topic, which invited contributors to not only look at the role of ‘place’ within Leadership Studies but also to actively challenge the reverence in which ‘lead…
Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development
Whilst Day's (2000) description of leadership development as an investment in social capital has been widely cited, there has been little subsequent empirical or theoretical work to explore and articulate the nature and purpose of this ‘social capital’ or how it changes over time. This paper revisits this issue by presenting findings from a qualitative in-depth longitudinal evaluation of a corporate leadership development programme. The study exp…
Why is collective leadership so elusive
This ‘Leading Questions’ thought piece explores the elusive nature of collective leadership. We use our previous experiences to explore issues that tend to go unnoticed and unreported within the academic analysis of collective forms of leadership, including (1) the motives of those commissioning and conducting applied research to ‘make a difference’ through collective forms of leadership; (2) the performative effects of how ‘collective leadership…
Learning from collective lived experience
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study tracking the development and engagement of a group of experts by experience (The Independent Futures (IF) Group) who provided a lived experience voice to the Bristol Golden Key (GK) partnership within the Fulfilling Lives programme. The case study reports the genesis and impact of the group, as well as the facilitators of impact and experiences of the group members and those they worked…
An emergent process for activating system change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present insights into the way in which system change can be activated around the provision of services and support for people experiencing multiple disadvantages in an urban setting. Design/methodology/approach This paper is informed by a thematic analysis of reflections, reports, learning logs, interviews and experiences of those “activating” system change in the Golden Key partnership in Bristol between 2…
Five point initiative
The FPI bundled implementation strategy shows promise to deliver health prevention/intervention for HIV and other health conditions to communities facing health inequities and for whom the current system for delivering care is insufficient
Three perspectives on leadership in higher education
There is a fragmented and complex literature about higher education leadership representing a diversity of ideological perspectives about its nature and purposes. Internationally, the literature has been strongly shaped by the importation of concepts and theories from management studies and a tradition of scholarship led by university leader-researchers. Drawing on an extensive literature review—drawing on over 250 books, book chapters, reports a…
Beyond the Unethical Leader
The downfall of the once heralded Theranos has captured the attention of the media, producing a plethora of reports presenting the case from a range of perspectives and sparking debate over the culpability of various parties and their contributions. This paper considers the case of Theranos through a dispositional analysis, bringing together 47 reports on the company to highlight an array of contextual factors that collectively contributed toward…
Academic anomie
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has ignited a near universal rethink of what is tolerable or desirable in work settings. In higher education—where discontent has been exacerbated by the pandemic—the potential for a ‘great resignation’ is a very real threat. The long-term impact of a crisis management approach in universities has led to a state of ‘pandemia’, according to Watermeyer et al., (British Journal of Sociology of Education 42:651…
Antecedents and consequences of distributed leadership in Indian higher education
Purpose The concept of distributed leadership (DL) has been widely advocated within higher education (HE). Yet, there have been few empirical investigations and little theory development outside Western contexts to date. This study presents a unique conceptualisation of DL and tests it empirically in India. Design/methodology/approach This study tests a moderated-mediation model by exploring the antecedents and consequences of DL in HE. Standardi…
Over worked and undervalued? Knotted tensions of identity, purpose, and change in contemporary higher education
Whilst concerns about rising managerialism have reverberated around the higher education sector for decades, there is evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated such trends and deepened cracks within the system. Whilst it is relatively easy for such discussions to become polarised – where ‘managers’ are pitched against ‘staff’ – the reality is far more complex. In this paper we analyse and interpret findings from a survey of 780 academic an…
Testing for Measurement Invariance (MI)
Assessing measurement invariance and the interplay of discrimination, microaggressions, and resilience among Black women living with HIV (BWLWH) across time utilizing latent class and repeated measure analysis may provide novel insights. A total of 151 BWLWH in a southeastern U.S. city completed surveys focused on multiple forms of microaggressions and discrimination (race, gender, sexual orientation, or HIV-related) and resilience factors (socia…
What makes a good article for leadership? Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 2
Last year we published an editorial that included thoughts and views about what makes a good article for Leadership from three of our associate editors (see Edwards et al., 2024 - https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/9083/). As this editorial was so well received, we wanted to do the same this year and publish a part 2. This time we hear from three more associate editors, Sarah Robinson, Richard Bolden and Suze Wilson, as they too respond to the fo…
The Intersectional Discrimination Index – Revised
The Intersectional Discrimination Index (InDI) includes three measures of anticipated, day-to-day, and major discrimination for intercategorical intersectionality research. Previous studies found that the measures are unidimensional with high loadings, good test-retest reliability, predictive validity, and measurement invariance between Canadian and United States (US) samples. Gaps included the need for cognitive interviewing, reassessing stabili…
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