Publications

Authored books /Edited books

Baxter, J, Selby Fell, H, Gilbert, A (2024 in press) Creativity and Critique in digital learning and teaching: insights for business and law, Palgrave, London.

Baxter, J. (2016) School Governing: Policy, Politics and Practice, Policy Press, ISBN 9781447326021 (a2) Edited books

Ehren, M. and Baxter, J. (2020) Accountability, trust and capacity in education system reform, Routledge.

Baxter, J., Callaghan, G. and McAvoy, J. (2018) Creativity and Critique in online learning, Palgrave. (now in top 10 most downloaded books in category , 2019-21, and used as a basis for development events across campus-based universities during pandemic e.g. University of Bedfordshire, University of Leicester).

Baxter, J. (2017) School Inspectors: Operational Challenges in National Policy Contexts, Springer.

(b) Chapters in books

  1. Baxter, Patent and Winter (2025 in press) Does Self-perceived introversion create a barrier to leadership emergence in Higher Education: a case study approach, in  S, G, Huber,  The International Handbook for Governance, Leadership, Administration, and Management in Education (Palgrave, in press, 2025).
  2. Hardie, L., Ryan, F., & Baxter, J. (2024). Every truth has two sides: The impact of chat GPT on Law and Business education. In J. Baxter, A. Gilbert, L. Hardie, R. Ramanau, & H. Selby-Fell (Eds.), Creativity and Critique in digital learning and teaching: Insights for learning design in business and law London Palgrave
  3. Gilbert, A., Baxter, J., & Selby-Fell, H. (2024). Where are we now with digital teaching? Critical reflections on digital teaching and SoTL in business and law. In J. Baxer, H. Selby-Fell, & A. Gilbert (Eds.), Creativity and critique in digital learning and teaching: Insights for learning design in business and law. . London Palgrave
  4. Baxter, J., Selby-Fell, H., & Gilbert, A. (2024). Preface and Introduction to Creativity and Critique in Digital Learning and Teaching: Insights for learning design in business and law In J. Baxter, H. Selby-Fell, & A. Gilbert (Eds.), Creativity and Critique in Digital Learning and Teaching: Insights for learning design in business and law London Palgrave
  5. Baxter, J., & Hinton, M., C. (2024). Digital Poverty in the UK and Its Impact on Higher Education: a human rights approach. In J. Baxter, H. Selby-Fell, & A. Gilbert (Eds.), Creativity and Critique in digital learning and teaching: Insights for learning design in business and law. London Palgrave
  6. Baxter, J. and Floyd, A. (2023) Crisis Leadership in secondary schools: Its effects on school leaders long-term visions of education. In, Outhwaite, D and Simon, C. (eds.). Leadership and Management for Education Studies, London, Routledge.
  7. Baxter, J. (in press) ‘Trust in school leadership: the case of South Africa’ in Dennis, A. (ed.) The Impact of Policy on the practice of educational leadership: Management, governance, administration, authority and power, Palgrave.
  8. Ehren, M. and Baxter, J. (2020) ‘Trust, capacity and accountability; three building blocks of education system reform’ in Ehren, M., Baxter, J. and Paterson, A. (eds.) Accountability, trust and capacity in education system reform, Routledge, pp-1-30. ISBN 9780367362492.
  9. Ehren, M. and Baxter, J. (2020) ‘Governance of education systems: trust, accountability and capacity in hierarchies, markets and networks’ in Ehren, M., Baxter, J. and Paterson, A. (eds.) Accountability, trust and capacity in education system reform, Routledge, pp 30-55. ISBN 9780367362492.
  1. Baxter, J. and Ehren, M. (2020) ‘Distrusting cultures and contexts and capacity for system level improvement’ in Ehren, M., Baxter, J. and Paterson, A. (eds.) Accountability, trust and capacity in education system reform, Routledge, pp 78-102. ISBN 9780367362492.
  2. Ehren, M. and Baxter, J. (2020) ‘System level perspectives of interactions between trust, accountability and capacity-building: Conclusions’ in Ehren, M., Baxter, J. and Paterson, A. (eds.) Accountability, trust and capacity in education system reform, Routledge, pp 288-305. ISBN 9780367362492.
  3. Baxter, J. (2020) ‘Corruption, nepotism and a culture of distrust in South Africa’ in Ehren, M., Baxter, J. and Paterson, A. (eds.) Accountability, trust and capacity in education system reform, Routledge, pp 201-222. ISBN 9780367362492,.
  4. Baxter, J. (2019) ‘New modes of collaborative governance: Governing collaborations in a new school landscape, power, control and communication’ in Allen, J. and Artiles, A.J. (eds.) 2020 World Yearbook of Education, Routledge, pp 33-55. ISBN 9780429431951
  5. Baxter, J. (2019a) ‘School Boards and Their Role in the Governance of Education’ in Papa, R. (ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Administration, Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190857547, online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.704.
  6. Baxter, J. (2018) ‘School Inspectors in Europe: exploring their role in implementing and shaping inspection policy: A narrative approach, in Wilkins, A. and Olmedo, A. (eds.) Education Governance and Social Theory: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research. Palgrave, pp 83-103. ISBN:HB:978-1-3500-4006-9.
  7. Callaghan, G., Baxter, J. and McAvoy, J. (2018) ‘The future of online teaching and learning and an invitation to debate’ in Baxter, J., Callaghan, G. and McAvoy, J. (eds.) Creativity and Critique in Online Learning: Exploring and Examining Innovations in Online Pedagogy, Palgrave, pp 261-275. ISBN: 978-3-319-78298-0.
  8. Baxter, J., Callaghan, G. and McAvoy, J. (2018) ‘Creativity and Critique in Online teaching and learning: Innovations in Online Pedagogy’ in Baxter, J., Callaghan, G. and McAvoy, J. (eds.) Creativity and Critique in Online Learning: Exploring and Examining Innovations in Online Pedagogy, Palgrave, pp 1-13 ISBN: 978-3-319-78298-0.
  9. Baxter, J., Callaghan, G. and McAvoy, J. (2018) ‘The context of online teaching and learning: Neoliberalism, marketization, and online teaching’ in Baxter, J., Callaghan, G. and McAvoy, J. (eds.) Creativity and Critique in Online Learning: Exploring and Examining Innovations in Online Pedagogy, Palgrave, pp13-31. ISBN: 978-3-319-78298-0.
  10. Baxter, J. (2016) ‘School inspectors as Policy Implementers: Influences and Activities’ in Baxter, J. (ed.) School Inspectors: Operational Challenges in National Policy Contexts, Springer, pp1-25. ISBN:978-3-319-52535-8.
  11. Baxter. J. (2016) ‘Framing the Debate: Influencing Public Opinion of Inspection, Inspectors and Academy Policy in Baxter, J. (ed.) School Inspectors: Operational Challenges in National Policy Contexts, Springer, pp 183-207. ISBN: 978-3-319-52536-5
  12. Baxter, J. (2017) ‘School Inspectors: shaping and evolving policy understandings’ in Baxter, J. (ed.)School Inspectors Operational Challenges in National Policy Contexts, Springer, pp 259-275. ISBN: 978-3-319-52536-5
  13. Baxter, J. and Hult, A. (2016) ‘Different Systems, Different Identities: The Work of Inspectors in Sweden and England,’ in J. Baxter (ed.)School Inspectors: operational challenges in National Policy Contexts, Springer, pp 45-71.ISBN: 978-3-319-52536-5
  • Lawn, M., Baxter, J., Segerholm, C. and Grek, S. (2014) ‘Inspection and the local’ in Grek, S. and Lindengren, J. (eds.) Governing by inspection: embodied regulation, Routledge, pp 96–116, ISBN 978-1138796050.
  • Baxter, J. and Rönnberg, L. (2014) ‘Inspection in the Media’ in Grek, S. and Lindengren, J. (eds.) Governing by Inspection: Embodied Regulation, Routledge, pp 159–172, ISBN 978-1138796050
  • Baxter, J., Grek, S. and Segerholm, C. (2014) ‘Shifting frameworks: shifting criteria’ in Grek, S. and Lindengren, J. (eds.) Governing by inspection: embodied regulation, Routledge, pp 74–96, ISBN 978-1138796050.

(c) Journal articles (refereed, published)

  1. Myers, F., Baxter, J., Selby-Fell, H., and Morales, A. (2025) Navigating from industry to higher education: practitioner transitions to academic life, British Educational Research Journal , (in press)
  2. Baxter, J., Floyd, A., and Morales, A (2024) Strategy as learning in a crisis situation in education: Is there evidence of identity as a core component of strategy as learning in schools ?, School Leadership and Management, 
  3. Floyd, A. Baxter, J, Morales, A and Bari, R (2023) ‘Leading online learning during a pandemic and beyond: challenges and opportunities for school leaders in England.’ Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (accepted 260723 in press).
  4. Baxter, J., and Ehren, M. (2023) Factors contributing to and detracting from relational trust in leadership: The case of primary schools in South Africa’, Frontiers in Education, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1004575/full
  5. Ehren, M. and Baxter, J. (in press) ‘A national curriculum to reduce inequality? South Africa’s curriculum and assessment policy’, The Journal of Curriculum Studies.
  6. Ehren, M., Paterson, A.,Camphuijsen,M., and Baxter,J. (2022)‘High and low performing schools in South Africa: Metaphors as a lens to understand teachers’ views of school organisation’, International Journal of Educational Research,116:doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102094
  7. Baxter, J. and Jewitt, K. (2021) ‘The scheme of delegation as a sensemaking framework in Multi Academy Trusts in England: Useful tool or constraint?’, Education, Management, Administration and Leadership: doi:10.1177/17411432211051907 (90% contribution).
  8. Baxter, J. and John, A. (2020) ‘Strategy as learning in multi-academy trusts in England: strategic thinking in action’, School Leadership and Management, 41 (4-5), pp. 290-310. (80% contribution).
  9. Baxter, J. (2020) ‘An Editors’ Tale: Past, present and future of Management in Education’, Management in Education, 35(1), pp. 3–7.
  10. Baxter, J. and Cornforth, C. (2019) ‘Governing collaborations: how boards engage with their communities in multi-academy trusts in England’, Public Management Review, 48(1), pp. 290–310 (80% contribution). This paper contributed to the strengthening of local boards in MATS in the Government White Paper on Education -2022 : https://schoolsweek.co.uk/white-paper-the-all-mat-system-needs-governance-buy-in/
  11. Baxter, J. and Floyd, A. (2019 ) ‘Strategic narrative in Multi Academy trusts: Principal drivers for expansion’, British Educational Research Journal, 45( 5), pp. 1050–1071 (80% contribution).
  12. Ehren, M., Paterson, A. and Baxter, J. (2019) ‘Accountability and trust: Two sides of the same coin?’, Journal of Educational Change, 21, pp. 183–213 (60% contribution).
  13. Baxter. J. (2017) ‘School Governor Regulation in England’s Changing Education Landscape’, Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 45(1), pp. 20–39.
  14. Baxter, J. (2015) ‘Faire sens de la gouvernance des écoles en Angleterre ; sources d’information et défis’, Recherches et Formation, pp. 51–68. Available at: http://rechercheformation.revues.org/2369.
  1. Clarke, J. and Baxter, J. (2014) ‘Satisfactory Progress? Keywords in English School Inspection’, Education Inquiry, 5(4). Available at: http://www.education-inquiry.net/index.php/edui/article/view/23485 (70% contribution).
  2. Baxter, J. and Clarke, J. (2014) ‘Knowledge, Authority and Judgement: The Changing Practices of School Inspection in England’, Sisyphus Journal of Education,2(1). Available at: http://oro.open.ac.uk/44064/ (80% contribution).
  3. Baxter, J. and Haycock, J. (2014) ‘Roles and student identities in online large course forums: implications for practice’, International Review of Open and Distance Learning, 15(1). Available at: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1593/2763 (80% contribution).
  1. Baxter, J. (2014) ‘An independent inspectorate? Addressing the paradoxes of educational inspection in 2013’, School Leadership and Management, 34 (1), pp. 21-38.
  2. Baxter, J. and Clarke, J. (2013) ‘Farewell to the Tickbox Inspector? Ofsted and the changing regime of school inspection in England’, Oxford Review of Education,39(5), pp. 702–718 (80% contribution).
  3. Baxter, J. and Wise, C. (2013) ‘Federation governing: translation or transformation?’, Management in Education: special issue Governing and Governance,27(3), pp. 106–111 (80% contribution).
  4. Baxter, J. (2013) ‘Professional inspector or inspecting professional? Teachers as inspectors in a new regulatory regime for education in England’, Cambridge Journal of Education, 43(4), pp. 467–485.
  5. Ozga, J., Baxter, J., Clarke, J., Grek, S. and Lawn, M. (2013) ‘The Politics of Educational Change: Governance and School Inspection in England and Scotland’, Swiss Journal of Sociology, 39(2), pp. 37–55 (40% contribution).
  6. Baxter, J. (2012) ‘Who am I and what keeps me going? Profiling the distance learning student in higher education’, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 13(4), pp. 107-129. Available at: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1283. To date this has had 4.3 million views from 92 countries.
  • Baxter, J. (2012) ‘The Impact of Professional Learning on the Online Teaching Identities of Higher Education Lecturers’, European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 11. Available at: http://www.eurodl.org/?article=527.

(d) Most Recent conference contributions

  1. Baxter, J, Selby-Fell, H, Morales, A and Myers, F. Crossing over: pracademic identities in a digital business school, ISSoTL Conference, 2023, ‘Context Matters’,  November 8-11, Railway Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands. https://issotl.com/issotl23/.
  2. Baxter, J, Myers, F., Morales, A and Selby, Fell, H. Transitional Identities in higher education: crossing the great divide between academic and practitioner a schema-based approach in a digital business school, EDULEARN 2023, Nuremberg, August 20/21, Nuremberg, Germany.
  3. Baxter, J, Floyd, A and Jewitt, K. (2022) ‘Education in a Changing World’, ECER Conference 2022, 23-16th August, Yerevan, Armenia.
  4. Baxter, J., Floyd, A. and Jewitt, K. (2021) ‘Educational leadership for the future’, World Education Leadership Symposium 2021, 28–30 September, Geneva Switzerland.
  5. Baxter, J., Floyd, A. and Jewitt, K. (2021) ‘Strategic leadership of online learning in English Secondary schools through Covid and beyond’, British Educational Research Conference 2021, 13–16 September, online.
  6. Baxter, J., Floyd, A. and Jewitt, K. (2021) ‘Education and Society: expectations, prescriptions, reconciliations ‘, European Educational Research Conference 2021, 6–10 September, online.
  7. Jewitt, K., Baxter, J. and Floyd, A. (2021) ‘Children aged 0-11 and COVID-19: A Conversation Event’, Public Seminar on the effects of covid on primary and middle school children, 3 June,2021,online.
  8. Baxter, J., Floyd, A. and Jewitt, K. (2021) ‘EDULEARN 2021’,13th Educational Conference on New Learning Technologies: Beyond Covid: Online learning in secondary education, its role and management, July 20-23, Palma, Mallorca.
  9. Baxter, J. and Ehren, M. (2021) ‘Trust in School Governing Bodies in South Africa: Principles and practice’, AERA Annual meeting, 9–12 April, Orlando, Florida.
  10. Baxter, J. and Hinton, M. (2020) ‘Investigation into students’ non submission of final assignment: The case of B100’, The Open University Scholarship Conference, 13 October, online.
  11. Ehren, M., Paterson, A. and Baxter, J. (2020) ‘School accountability in Africa: bringing together research, policy, and practitioner perspectives’, 65th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Seattle, USA.
  12. Ehren, M., Paterson, A. and Baxter, J. (2020) ‘Causal sequences to explain ineffective school accountability in South Africa’s KwaZulu Natal’, 65th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Seattle, Washington, USA.
  13. Sinclair, S., Butler, D., Fitzgerald, E., Baxter, J. and Rai, L.(2020) ‘The Open University Scholarship Steering Group and Centres for Scholarship and Innovation’, Advance HE 2020, 7–12 July. Bristol, England.
  14. Baxter, J. and Harding, R. and Reid ,K (2020) ‘Crossing over: Practitioner to Academic Transitions in an online business and law school’, EDULEARN 2020, 6–8 July, Palma, Mallorca, Spain.
  15. Baxter, J. and Ehren, M. (2020) ‘Trust and Social Capital; Trust between Schools and their Communities in South Africa’, CCEAM Conference, 1–4 September, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  16. Ehren, M., Paterson, A., Hendricks, A. and Baxter, J. (2020) ‘A national curriculum to reduce inequality? How South Africa’s curriculum and assessment policy is increasing achievement gaps’, RISE Conference, September19–21, Oxford, England
  17. Baxter, J., Ehren, M. and Paterson, A. (2020) ‘Articulating Teacher Professionalism through trust relations’, BELMAS Conference: Educational Leadership for a sustainable future, 3–5 July. Carden Park, Leicestershire, England.
  18. Baxter, J. and Ehren, M. (2020) ‘Corruption and trust in South African Education; Perceptions of teachers and school boards’, Open University Festival of Research, 19-20 February. Milton Keynes, England.
  19. Baxter, J., Heystek, J. and Ehren, M. (2020) ‘Teacher unions in South Africa: Supporting or undermining professional practice?’, ECER Conference: Research (re) Connecting Communities 2020, 25–28 August. Munich, Germany.
  20. Ehren, M., Paterson, A. and Baxter, J. (2020) ‘School accountability in Africa: bringing together research, policy, and practitioner perspectives’, 64th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Miami, Florida. USA.
  21. Baxter, J., Ehren, M. and Paterson, A. (2019) ‘Corruption and trust in South African Education:  Perceptions of teachers and school boards’, BSA Annual Conference 2019: Challenging Social Hierarchies and Inequalities, 24–26 April, Glasgow, Scotland
  22. Baxter, J. (2019) ‘Learning strategy in Multi Academy Trusts: knowledge as narrative’, ECER 2019: Education in an Era of Risk – the Role of Educational Research for the future, 3–6 September, Hamburg, Germany.
  23. Baxter, J. (2019) ‘Creating community in online teaching and learning’, EDULEARN 2019, Palma, Mallorca, Spain.
  24. Ehren, M. and Baxter, J. (2019) International seminar: Trust and Accountability to Improve Education Systems, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Netherlands (50 participants).

(e) All other works

Research reports

2022: Interviewed as Digital Teaching Expert for the report ‘Teaching Business in the digital Age: Revolution or evolution, Study conducted for FNEGE (Moatti, Abord De Chatillon, 2022) Universite Grenoble Alpes. https://www.fnege.org/actualites/3136/parution-d-une-nouvelle-etude-fnege-l-enseignement-du-management-a-l-ere-du-numerique-revolution-ou-evolution

2022: ESRC. ‘Accountability, capacity and Trustto improve learning outcomes in South Africa’, Technical Report, survey, phase 3/3. (Ehren, Paterson and Baxter, 2022).

2021: UKRI. ‘Strategic Leadership of online learning in English Secondary Schools: before, during and post, covid’, Presentation to the DfE on 11 April 2022. (Baxter, Floyd and Jewitt, 2022).

2020: Leverhulme Trust. ‘Understandings and formulation of democratic strategy in federated school structures in England’ (Baxter, 2020).

2020: Department for International Development. Report into the relationship between trust, accountability, and capacity in raising learning outcomes in South African Primary Education, Qualitative Case study report. Published by JET Education Services, Johannesburg, South Africa. (Ehren, Baxter and Paterson, 2020).

2018: Department for Education, Gauteng/Jed Education Services South Africa. Literature review on Trust Accountability and Capacity in raising learning outcomes in South African primary education. (Ehren and Baxter, 2017). Published by JET Education Services Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2014: Grant Thornton LLP UK. Learning and skills Improvement service, Navigate Academies Trust, Odgers Brenton PLC Board self-evaluation practices.

2010: The Open University, Strategic Priority area 6: Student Progression and Retention Student Progression: effective interventions and areas for development.

Practitioner-focused books

  1. Baxter, J. (2009) Teaching Doctors: A Guide for NHS clinicians, Oxford Medical Press Ltd.
  2. McGuire, S. and Baxter, J. (2016) Teaching skills for Doctors, Oxford Medical Publications Ltd.
  3. Baxter, J., Daniels, H., Haughton, J., Gaskell, A., Macdonald, J., Mcdonnell, E., McQueen, B., Pagis, Z., Parsons, R. and Rasheed, L. (2008) Teaching and learning at The Open University, a guide for Associate Lecturers, Open University Press, ISBN 978-0-7492-1271-1.
  4. Makin, L., Sibthorpe, R., Baxter, J. and Peoples, R. (2006) Supporting Students in Prison. A guide for Associate Lecturers, Open University Press, ISBN 978-07492-2922-1

Book reviews

  1. Baxter, J. (2016) ‘Book Review: The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of our Ordinary Lives by Helen Pearson’, LSE Review of Books.
  2. Baxter, J. (2015) Book Review: ‘The Open University: a history’, International Journal of Lifelong Education, By Dan Weinbren, 34(3), pp. 366–369.
  3. Sociology Online (2013). Book Review: Understanding Education: A Sociological Perspective Gewirtz, S and Cribb, A, Polity Press: Cambridge, 2009. 9780745633459 (pb)
  4. Management in Education (2013). Bush, T. and Middlewood, D. Leading and Managing People in Education. (London, Sage, 2013). ISBN:978-1-4462-7.
  5. People, Place and Policy Online (2014). Halsaa, B, Roseneil, S. and Sümer, S. Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe Women’s movements, Gender and Diversity. Palgrave Macmillan 2012. ISBN: 978-0-230-27628-4.

Other

  1. Baxter, J. (2011) Thesis: An investigation into the role of professional learning on the online teaching identities of Higher Education Lecturers Doctorate in Education The Open University UK, Milton Keynes. Available at: http://oro.open.ac.uk/33928/.
  2. Baxter, J. (2011) Public Sector Professional identities: etiolation or evolution; a review of the literature. Retrieved from http://oro.open.ac.uk/29793/