Clive Dimmock is Associate Professor. He has held appointments as Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, and at University of Wales, Cardiff UK. He has conducted consultancies in the US, UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Bumei and Cyprus. Teaching areas reflect the research areas and publications listed below, and his teaching interests include the use of problem-based learning in educational administration.

School restructuring and design; a cross-cultural approach to comparative educational administration; the principalship; qualitative research methods in education, especially grounded theory and the life history approach.

Books:

1. Dimmock, C. (Ed.). (1993). School-cased management and school effectiveness. London: Routledge. 241pp.

2. Dimmock, C. & O'Donoghue, T. (1997). Innovative principals and school restructuring. London: Routledge. 188pp.

3. O'Donoghue, T. & Dimmock, C. (1998). School restructuring: International Perspectives. London: Kogan Page. 200pp.

4. Dimmock, C. (forthcoming). Designing the learning-centred school: A cross-cultural perspective. London: Falmer Press.

International refereed journal articles

1. Dimmock, C. & Walker, A. (1997). Hong Kong's change of sovereignty: School leader perceptions of the effects on educational policy and school administration. Comparative Education, 33(2), 277-302.

2. Dimmock, C. & Walker, A. (1998). Towards comparative educational administration: building the case for a cross-cultural, school-based approach. Journal of Educational Administration, 36(4), 379-401.

3. Dimmock, C. & Walker, A. (1998, October). Comparative educational administration: Developing a cross-cultural comparative framework. Educational Administration Quarterly, 34(4), 558-595.