Dr Steve Lambert | University of Chester

Associate Professor

Steve Lambert is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Chester, UK. His work involves the academic leadership of programmes related to educational leadership within the School of Education. He supervises masters and doctoral students and undertakes research in the areas of educational policy discourse, the development of sustainable leadership as a leadership concept that secures the future of educational leadership, the mapping of leadership traits and the role of emotions in leadership.

He was the recipient of the 2016 FETL national research fellowship.

Before working in higher education, he held a number of senior leadership roles in education, including local and national government.

As Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Steve works at the interface between educational leadership and psychology. His early career focused on leadership theories, such as the emergence of sustainable leadership in education, and educational policy. He has also published widely in the area of educational leadership, leadership in post-compulsory education and leadership in healthcare settings. More recently, his work has focused on the application of techniques more commonly found in psychology to support the development of future leaders in education. This includes the use of eye-tracking and electroencephalogram (EEG) to explore construction of empathy in educational leadership. He has supervised EdD, PhD, DBA and DProf students to successful completion and has published over 30 peer reviewed articles. In 2018 this research was heavily cited in an influential review of Further Education by the UK's Department of Education.