Jonathan James, OECD’s Centre for Education Research and Innovation
Agency in action: School leadership for a sustainable tomorrow
Jonathan James is a Policy Analyst on the Trends Shaping Education project at the OECD’s Centre for Education Research and Innovation. He has contributed to flagship publications like Trends Shaping Education 2025, as well as policy dialogues and country-specific projects. Jonathan joined the OECD in 2020 and holds a PhD in Comparative Education at the UCL Institute of Education, where his research focused on the impact of domestic terrorism on citizenship and values education in England and France. With 12 years of teaching and leadership experience in secondary schools in London and Paris, he remains deeply engaged with issues related to the teaching profession.
Karin Doolan, Institute for Social Research, Zagreb, Croatia
School leadership in the aftermath of disasters triggered by natural hazards
Karin Doolan is a Research Associate at the Centre for Educational Research and Development, a unit of the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia. Recently she has explored the impact of floods and earthquakes on the organizational life of schools, as well as how literature is used to discuss pressing issues such as climate change with young people. She has published on a variety of topics including how class inequalities are amplified in educational settings and the biographical legacy of protest participation. Her scholarship is inseparable from her activist sensibility. She is especially committed to collaborations with the civil society sector, and serves as the head of the governing board of the Institute for Political Ecology, a CSO dedicated to fostering ecologically sustainable, just and democratic societies. She holds a PhD degree in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge.