I have undertaken strategic reviews of knowledge production in the field of educational leaders, leading and leadership:
Fitzgerald, T. and Gunter, H.M. (eds) (2009) Educational Administration and History: the State of the Field. London: Routledge.
Gunter, H.M. (2022) An intellectual history of the political in the EMAL field. Educational Management Administration and History. 50 (2), 252-268.
Gunter, H.M. (2022) Foreword. In: Showunmi, V., Moorosi, P., Shakeshaft, C., and Oplatka, I. (Eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Gender and Educational Leadership and Management. London: Bloomsbury. xxii-xxiv.
Gunter, H.M. (2020) Forgetting our intellectual histories and the implications for educational professionals. In: Moos, L., Nihfors, E. and Paulsen J.M. (Eds.) Re-centering the Critical Potential of Nordic school leadership research: fundamental but often forgotten perspectives Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 37-52.
Gunter, H.M. (2019) studying principals, revealing principles: the contribution of Jorunn Møller’s research to researching professional practices. In: In: Jensen, R., Kareth, B., and Ottesen, E. (2019) Styring og ledelse I grunnopplæringen: Spenninger og dynamikker (Educational Leadership and Governance: Tensions and Dynamics). 195-210
Gunter, H.M. (2018) Advancing the intellectual development of the field? In: Eacott, S. (ed) Advancing Educational Administration and Leadership Research Relationally. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 167-176.
Gunter, H.M. (2016) An Intellectual History of School Leadership Practice and Research. London: Bloomsbury Press.
Gunter, H.M. (2016) Intellectual histories of school leadership: implications for professional preparation. Acta Didactica Norge 10 (4), p27-47. https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/adno
Gunter, H.M. (2013) On not researching school leadership: the contribution of S.J. Ball. London Review of Education. 11 (3), 218-228.
Gunter, H.M. (2012) The Field of Educational Administration. British Journal of Educational Studies. 60 (4), 337-356.
Gunter, H.M. (2008) Modernisation and the field of educational administration. Journal of Educational Administration and History. 40 (2), 161-172.
Gunter, H.M. (2006) Knowledge production in the Field of Educational Leadership: a place for intellectual histories. Journal of Educational Administration and History. 38 (2), 210-215.
Gunter, H.M. (2006) Educational leadership and the challenge of diversity. Educational Management, Administration and Leadership. 34 (2), 257-268.
Gunter, H.M. (2005) Conceptualising research in educational leadership. Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, 33 (2), 165-180.
Gunter, H.M. (2004) Labels and Labelling in the field of educational leadership. Discourse, 25 (1), 21-42.
Gunter, H.M. (2003) Intellectual histories of the field of education management in the UK. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 6 (4), 333-347.
Gunter, H.M. (2002) International networking and the development of the field of education management in the UK. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 34 (2), 92-105.
Gunter, H.M. (2002) An analysis of how the past and future are conceptualised and used within the field of education management. Leading and Managing, 7 (1), 1-14.
Gunter, H.M. (2001) Leaders and Leadership in Education London: Paul Chapman.
Gunter, H.M. (1999) Researching and constructing histories of the field of education management. In: Bush, T., Bell, L., Bolam, R., Glatter, R., Ribbins, P. (eds.) Educational Management: Redefining Theory, Policy and Practice. London: Paul Chapman Publishing. 229-245.
Gunter, H.M. (1997) Rethinking Education: The Consequences of Jurassic Management London: Cassell.
Gunter, H.M., Hall, D. and Bragg, J. (2013) Distributed Leadership: a study in knowledge production. Educational Management Administration and Leadership. 41 (5) 556 - 581.
Gunter, H.M. and Fitzgerald, T. (2008) The future of leadership research. School Leadership and Management. 28 (3), 263-280.
Gunter, H.M. and Ribbins, P. (2003) The field of educational leadership: studying maps and mapping studies. British Journal of Educational Studies, 51 (3), 254-281.
Gunter, H.M. and Ribbins, P. (2003) Challenging Orthodoxy in School Leadership Studies: Knowers, Knowing and Knowledge? School Leadership and Management, 23 (2), 129-146.
Gunter, H.M. and Ribbins, P. (2002) Leadership studies in education: towards a map of the field. Educational Management and Administration, 30 (4), 387-416.
Gunter, H.M. and Thomson, P. (2010) Life on Mars: Headteachers before the National College. Journal of Educational Administration and History. 42 (3), 203-222.
Gunter, H.M. and Thomson, P. (2009) The Makeover: a new logic in leadership development in England? Educational Review. 61 (4), 469-483.
Gunter, H.M. and Willmott, R. (2001) Biting the bullet. Management in Education, 15 (5), 35-37.
Hall, D., Gunter, H.M. and Bragg, J. (2013) The strange case of the emergence of distributed leadership in schools in England. Educational Review. 65 (4) 467–487.
Raffo, C. and Gunter, H.M. (2008) Leading schools to promote social inclusion: developing a conceptual framework for analysing research, policy and practice. Journal of Education Policy. 23 (4), 363-380.
Ribbins, P. and Gunter, H.M. (2002) Mapping Leadership Studies in Education: towards a typology of knowledge domains. Educational Management and Administration, 30 (4), 359-386.