Dr Jennie Billot
PhD (Auck); BSc(Hons) (Lond); PGCertEd (Lough)

Postgraduate Student Research Director: Unitec New Zealand.

My research interests have emerged from working in different sectors of education. This includes teaching across primary, secondary and tertiary contexts, government initiated school review and research and directing a centre for educational research and Institutes for Educational Leadership (residential professional development programmes for school principals). I have also led internal, external (Ministry of Education) and international collaborative research projects, including projects focusing on teaching and learning. Following my commissioned research in the Pacific Islands, I was the invited facilitator of the Pacific Forum, initiated by the International Confederation of Principals in Sydney (2003) focusing on research into principalship in the Pacific. I currently co-ordinate and lecture in a course of Research Methods across disciplines and work through the Unitec Postgraduate Division to support postgraduate student research. My current research interests lie primarily in educational leadership, diversity and ethical leadership, the tertiary research culture and research preparation for tertiary students.