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Dr Tania Leach

Dr Tania Leach
Name Tania Leach
Position Deputy Head of School (Education)
Section School of Education
Office G310B
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1481
Extension 1481
Email
Qualifications BEd USQ , MEd USQ , PhD USQ

Biography

Dr Tania Leach is an expert in educational leadership at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research focuses on the contemporary challenges of system leaders, and what that this means for how we can better support schools and their leaders to achieve whole of system growth.

She has a particular interest in the interconnection between system and school leadership and the skills and knowledges that are needed to successfully lead systems and schools.

Tania has 18 years of leadership experience across the schooling and university sector, including Associate Dean - LTSS, Principal Education Advisor and Head of School. Her expertise as a system leader was formally acknowledged in 2017 through the Australian Council of Educational Leadership’s Queensland Excellence in Leadership Award. She now works with current leaders, policy makers, and international researchers to highlight the important and complex work of educational leadership today.

Tania’s PhD thesis, awarded by the University of Southern Queensland in 2021, explored the contemporary challenges of system leaders, and what that this means for how we can better support schools and their leaders to achieve whole of system growth. It won the 2022 ‘Research in Educational Leadership and Management Award’ for exceptional academic achievement in advanced studies in educational leadership, as selected by the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and the Excellence in Doctoral Research: for achieving the highest possible result for a Higher Degree by Research thesis examination, as selected by the University of Southern Queensland.

Research Career


  • Education Systems ( 390300 )
  • Work Integrated Learning (incl. Internships) ( 390115 )
  • Other Education ( 399900 )
  • Educational Administration ( 390403 )
  • Other Education not elsewhere classified ( 399999 )
  • Education Policy ( 390201 )
  • Education Policy ( 390200 )
  • Curriculum And Pedagogy ( 390100 )
  • Specialist Studies In Education ( 390400 )
  • Education Systems not elsewhere classified ( 390399 )

Educational Leadership, System Reform, School Improvement


Australian Council of Educational Leaders (ACEL)
Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)

Teaching


EDU4100
EDU8100
EDC4000
EDU8400


6 Years


22 Years


Associate Head: Professional Engagement, School of Education

Supervision


  • Education Systems ( 390300 )
  • Work Integrated Learning (incl. Internships) ( 390115 )
  • Other Education ( 399900 )
  • Educational Administration ( 390403 )
  • Other Education not elsewhere classified ( 399999 )
  • Education Policy ( 390201 )
  • Education Policy ( 390200 )
  • Curriculum And Pedagogy ( 390100 )
  • Specialist Studies In Education ( 390400 )
  • Education Systems not elsewhere classified ( 390399 )