Alan J. Daly

Alan J. Daly, Ph.D., Professor, was most recently the Chair of the Department of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is now the Director of the Joint Educational Leadership doctoral program at UCSD. Professor Daly is also the Executive Editor of a new Open Access Journal of Educational Neuroscience. His research and teaching are influenced by his 16 years of public school experience in a variety of instructional and leadership roles. Alan’s research primarily focuses on the role of leadership, educational policy, and organization structures and the relationship between those elements on the educational attainment of traditionally marginalized populations. Professor Daly draws on his methodological expertise in social network analysis in his work and has a book on the topic published by Harvard Press entitled, Social Network Theory and Educational Change and a second co-authored book with Springer entitled, Using Research Evidence in Schools, and an American Educational Research Association book entitled, Thinking and Acting Systemically: Improving School Districts Under Pressure. He is also a Fulbright Global Scholar in New Zealand and South Africa. You can learn more about Alan’s work here:

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alan_Daly

http://ucsd.academia.edu/AlanDaly