Professor Brent Davies Cert Ed, BA, MSc, MPhil, PhD

Biography

West London Academy’s Children’s University Chancellor, Dr Brent Davies, is Professor of Leadership Development at the University of Hull. He is also a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education ( University of London), Special Professor at the University of Nottingham and a Faculty Member of the Centre on Educational Governance at the University of Southern California. Brent is an Associate Director of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.

Brent spent the first ten years of his career working as a teacher in South London. He then moved into higher education and now works exclusively on leadership and management development programmes for senior and middle managers in schools. He was Director of the International MBA in School Leadership at Leeds Metropolitan University. He then moved to the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside to establish the first Chair in Educational Leadership and create the International Educational Leadership Centre in Lincoln. He moved to the University of Hull in 2000 to establish the International Leadership Centre. In 2004 he moved within the University to become a research professor in leadership development at the Hull University Business School.

Brent has lectured widely in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States of America. He is a consultant on designing strategic development and planning strategies in schools to the Department of Education in Victoria, to the Australian Principals' Centre and to several UK Local Education Authorities. He has a key role as Chancellor of West London Academy Children’s University both delivering lectures to Academy students and also officiating at the annual Graduation Ceremony.