Amanda Goodall
- Leverhulme Fellow
BSc (London School of Economics), PhD (Warwick)
Biography
Amanda Goodall left high school at 16 and worked as a fashion model until the mid 1980s. She then lived in India on a small development project, and for a number of years worked with campaigning organizations back in the UK. In 1997 she graduated with a first-class honours degree from the London School of Economics. Following the degree she worked with Anthony Giddens, Director of the London School of Economics, as part of the top management team, and later with the Vice Chancellor of Warwick University. In 2004 Amanda started a PhD at Warwick Business School. Her research drew from having spent seven years with leaders of research universities. She got her PhD in 2007, became an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow and is currently a Leverhulme Fellow at Warwick Business School. Amanda has held Visiting Fellowships at Cornell University and the University of Zurich.
Research interests
My work is on leadership and organizational performance. I focus on leaders in knowledge-intensive organizations, such as universities, hospitals and banks. Quantitative and qualitative data are used to assess the performance of different kinds of leaders. My central argument is that where expert knowledge is the key factor that characterizes an organization, it is expert knowledge that should also be key in the selection of its leader. Being a good manager alone is, I suggest, not a sufficient condition.
Selected research projects
- Humans and Climate Change: Leverhulme Trust, July 2008 - June 2010.
Only selected externally-funded projects are listed here.
Publications
Books
- Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should be Led by Top Scholars. Oxford and Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009 (Published).
Journal articles
- Highly Cited Leaders and the Performance of Research Universities. Research Policy 38 (2009) (Published): 1079-1092.
- Should Top Universities be Led by Top Researchers, and Are They? A Citations Analysis. Journal of Documentation 62 (2006): 388-411.
