As a Professor in Educational Leadership within the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne, his responsibilities include preparing and teaching in pre-service and post-graduate programs, supervision of Masters and Doctoral research and representation on appropriate committees. He is the leader of the educational leadership academic group of the faculty and was the Associate Dean (staffing) in 2019) which involved him in all matters to do with academic staff appointment and development, teacher allocation, academic workload, and direction setting. Over recent years David has served on the following committees: faculty executive, staffing, finance, learning and teaching, diversity and inclusion, honours, master of education, and academic programs. He teaches in the areas of educational leadership, strategic leadership, and school effectiveness and improvement. He is a founding member of the International Successful School Principalship Project, and co-led an Australian team that was awarded a national grant for this project in 2005. He is also a founding member of the International School Leadership Development Network, which is a joint partnership between UCEA and BELMAS. He is a founding member of the Association for Teacher Leadership and Scholarship. He has more than 250 publications and has presented more than 230 times at international and local conferences, and has led or been involved in 27 research classified grants worth more than $20,000,000, including one ARC Discovery Grant. David has supervised to completion 21 Masters and 45 Doctoral research students, and has examined more than 80 theses. He has conducted more than 100 school reviews, mainly in Victoria, but also including South Australia, New South Wales and Hong Kong. David has been the Vice-president of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and past Editor of Hot Topics, Monograph and the academic journal, Leading and Managing. David is the immediate past editor of the CCEAM journal International Studies in Educational Administration, senior associate editor of the Journal of Educational Administration and co-editor of the IAP book series International Research on School Leadership. He has received several honours from ACEL including being awarded the National Presidential Citation in 2004, a national fellowship in 2006, the Hedley Beare Educator of the Year award in 2012, and the Gold Medal in 2014. He is involved in consultancy work in Victorian schools including teaching in a range of professional learning programs associated with school leadership, and evaluating leadership programs. David is a research fellow of the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change, and member of the advisory board for the International Executive Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and Change, both at the Education University of Hong Kong. He has been an International Associate of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change at the University of Glasgow, and a Faculty Fellow at Western University in Ontario.

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