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Danny retired in 2010 after a career as a secondary school headteacher of three very different Scottish comprehensive schools over two decades (Crieff HS 1992-6, McLaren HS 1996-2000 and Lornshill Academy 2003-2010). Following fascinating experience as a Volunteer Education Adviser in Cambodia (2010-11), he returned to work in the University of Edinburgh, where he had, between 2000 and 2003, set up and run the Centre for Educational Leadership and introduced programmes of educational leadership and management leading to the award of the Scottish Qualification for Headship. As part-time Senior Teaching Fellow, he has more recently been able to pursue his research interests in professional development and educational policy development. He has also, since retirement, written a number of well-reviewed books on aspects of the Scottish education system and collaborated with colleagues from CES in editing ‘Everyone’s Future.

 

Current and recent publications

2015: Everyone's Future: lessons from fifty years of Scottish comprehensive schooling (Trentham/Institute of Education) – joint editor with Linda Croxford, Cathy Howieson and David Raffe.

2014: Schooling Scotland: Education, equity and community (Edinburgh: Argyll Publishing)

2013: Professional School Leadership: Dealing with Dilemmas (2nd edition: Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press ).

2012: 'Democratic Schooling in Scotland: Past, Present and Future', Chapter in Brown, J, Ross, H and Munn, P (eds) 'Democratic Citizenship in Schools' Edinburgh: Dunedin Press.

2008: 'School Leadership' with Jim O'Brien and Janet Draper (2nd edition 2008) Edinburgh: Dunedin Press,