Tanya Fitzgerald

Tanya Fitzgerald is Professor of Educational Leadership, Management and History at La Trobe University (Australia). She is the author of numerous books and articles that examine historical and contemporary perspectives on gender, leadership and higher education. Recent publications include Women Leaders in Higher Education: Shattering the Myths (Routledge, 2014) and Women Educators, Leaders and Activists: Educational Lives and Networks 1900-1960 (co-edited with Elizabeth Smyth). Tanya is co-editor of the Journal of Educational Administration and History, and Vice President of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society. She tweets @tanya_fitz.

Publications

Advancing Knowledge in Higher Education: Universities in Turbulent Times
Advancing Knowledge in Higher Education: Universities in Turbulent Times
Tanya Fitzgerald. © 2014. 337 pages.
Over the last three decades, higher education institutions have experienced massive changes. In particular, institutions of higher education have been positioned as a means to...
Troubling Higher Education
Troubling Higher Education
Tanya Fitzgerald. © 2014. 14 pages.
There has been a renewed interest in universities as sites of knowledge production and their contributions in the global knowledge economy. Originating in the reforms of the...
Professional Knowledge Workers: Tensions and Binaries
Professional Knowledge Workers: Tensions and Binaries
Andrea Simpson, Tanya Fitzgerald. © 2014. 18 pages.
The pressures of fiscal constraints, increased competition, and rapidly developing information technology have resulted in the modern university adopting business models of...