Paul Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Education at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. His research interests concern contemporary forms of educational leadership and management, in particular the means by which schools are managed and resourced organizationally. He is also interested in school-to-school collaboration and support. Paul has worked in educational research for over 15 years on a range of national and international projects across a number of areas of education including school effectiveness, school improvement, school networking, educational leadership, management and policy. He teaches on Masters programmes for teachers and aspiring school leaders through which he promotes the development of ‘research conscious practice’.